Theresa Senato Edwards

Voices Through Skin (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011)

Theresa Senato Edwards' poems bring to mind Georgia O'Keefe's evocative flower paintings. However, in their journey between mind and body, the petals have withered; the colors have fractured into becoming even more fervent in their desire to live after being touched by loss and anguish.                   ~ Arlene Ang

A wonderful, disquieting sense of physicality to these poems. They convey the subtle and angular sensation of lived life. . . . This poet knows how to end poems, too. She catches the breath. That's something rare.

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Edwards digs up a blooming, vining garden of pain, unafraid of getting her hands dirty, taking her readers through layered images of hurt (both historic and personal), and guiding our fingers over the worried notch on her childhood door, drawing us into a "smooth wooden pool of calm." Hers is a work of terrible beauty. 

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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.                                                                                                                     ~ Christine Klocek-Lim