REVIEW EXCERPT:

"Steven Curry teaches English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa by day, and waits patiently for waves in the moonlight at Queens. While waiting, his mind wanders through some dreamy mindscapes, which brings back poetry when it returns from its journeys..."

-- Greg Ambrose, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12/15/97

REVIEW EXCERPT:

"We are always 'dreaming ourselves full of meaning,' says Steve Curry in 'Waxing the Lunar Mountain Apple." The dreams he recounts in these poems are complex and remarkable, and as he tells them they almost become our own. They make us wonder where the boundaries are between sleep and waking, shadows and sun, mountains and sea, death and life, since its in the in-between places that most of us, only half aware, reside. These meditations, musings, and parables can be both nightmarish and suddenly joyful. Never far from the sea in mind and body, Curry rides some strong, dark currents here. Finally, his poems urge us to resolve every contradiction and -- like waves, shadows, and dreams -- to vanish into the moon, where, surprisingly, we will awaken. This is the voice of a long-time resident of Hawai'i well worth hearing..."

-- Frank Stewart, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Literature