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Praise for Voices Through Skin

Touch is the bridge that connects the mind to the body in Theresa Senato Edwards' debut collection of poetry Voices Through Skin, a text that addresses the disease of contemporary culture’s social and emotional fragmentation, on the familial and national levels, and its effects on our bodies’ functioning as individuals, couples, families, and communities. Senato’s poetry resonates with the music of her soul which she communicates in jagged rhythms, unique duet and performance forms, and in the echoes of the past in the present, permeating her work; but Senato’s poetry insists on revising the future while savoring and saving all she has learned from her story. Memories may be tattooed on the skin and soul, but the poet has the power of language and the gift of the present moment to redesign her legacy. These are wise poems written with economy of words and down-home flavor. They are poems of experience, the results of having wrestled with life-issues—from abortion and divorce to cancer and triumphing—an inspired collection!

Ingrid Pruss, Ph.D., Western Connecticut State University

Theresa Senato Edwards has the eye of the clairvoyant and the tongue of the sphinx. Voices Through Skin evokes the sensate emotions that inform a life lived with crystalline observation and joy. These poems have the delicate secrets of a diary and the blaring truth of a news headline. Whether uncovering motives, gaining grace, or discovering love, the insight present here leaves us under the same skin with her, humming in welcomed community. Rich in song and annunciation, Senato Edwards’ s poems are a celestial leap for our earth-bound hearts, and with them we learn how to listen to each other again.

Philip F. Clark, The ArtPoint

Co-Editor Sibling Rivalry Press/Art Editor for Assaracus

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Theresa Senato Edwards' poetry collection, Voices Through Skin, is a study of imperfection and difficulty. Each poem illustrates the way suffering makes us human, makes us less than perfect. The scars that appear from this struggle, earned at great cost, anchor us to the world. The poems Edwards has included in this book are gritty and often overwhelming. Sometimes the words, painful and wounding, tip over into beauty and sometimes they edge the reader more quietly into mere recognition, into witness. In either case, the pivotal truth of Voices Through Skin is that nothing endured is wasted. Rather, it is the very imperfection of our existence that makes what we've suffered worthy of remembrance so that our voices rise up from within to speak through the skin, quietly perhaps, but all the more precious for that.

Christine Klocek-Lim

Winner of the 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in Poetry

Editor, Autumn Sky Poetry

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Friday, December 30, 2011

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