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5.0 out of 5 stars
philosophy, lyricism, language--it's all here, September 21, 1999
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This review is from: Provocative Bathroom Reading (Library Binding)
Frank "Trey" Palmisano is to be commended on a first book that breaks the young-poet's-first-book mold. It doesn't whine; it's not Confessional; it's deeply intelligent. That Palmisano's background is in philosophy as well as literature is evident. That he adores words for the sheer sensuous pleasure of their "mouth," their "hand," to borrow words from the food and garment trades, is also evident. It'll be interesting to see where he goes from here. One hopes that he'll lose the self-deprecation that led him to this book's title (though in fact my own copy resides, along with many another "great book," in my own personal, private,cermanic-tiled library-that-locks.
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