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Seamless Paperback – June 27, 2003

by Linda Tomol Pennisi (Author)
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Winner of the 2003 Perugia Press Prize, SEAMLESS is the impressive debut poetry collection by Linda Tomol Pennisi. The poems approach the slippery and subtle areas between beauty and darkness, between sanity and disorientation, between hunger and survival, and in so doing create a coherent story about the grace and fragility of being human. Pennisi's light touch and restraint set these poems apart. Her language is masterful, varied, musical, sexy, and precise.
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  1. Print length
    72 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Perugia Press
  4. Publication date
    June 27, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0966045963
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0966045963
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Pennisi's power is in her ability to precisely and hauntingly spell out a phenomenological wellness or illness with words, to detect fragility, failure, beauty and more often than not, their co-existence. --The Southeast Review

This work is extraordinarily sensuous, tracing the movement of bodies through trauma to revelation, through fear to inspiration. And while there is a certain delicacy here, there is also a great deal of confidence. These poems are mature and sure of themselves. --New Pages

About the Author

Originally from Pennsylvania, Linda Tomol Pennisi lives in Syracuse, New York, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Le Moyne College. Her poems have appeared in journals like The Evansville Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellingham Review, and many others. A former nurse, she earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Perugia Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 27, 2003
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0966045963
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0966045963
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.25 x 9 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #9,822,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating

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  • Margaret C. Szumowski
    5.0 out of 5 stars Shape-shifter
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2004
    Format: Paperback
    The speaker is a dancer, a dreamer, and someone we can't get our hands on. I love the way she dresses herself up in scratchy bird wings found in a closet. This speaker is a Houdini, a shape-shifter,someone with heart,with tears, with a love for dance in all its permutations. Even her words dance around the page!Despite the lively persona,she's a speaker who's also sad about danger to young girls found "nude, stabbed or strangled."

    Her language is often stunning--as she describes the way, "a painter might/dabble among reds and whites and blues to find just the right/ pink, the way a blossom might unfold/until it might reveal itself unashamedly in the dark." There's a fun-house mirror quality to Seamless.The speaker's dizziness and slipping ground keeps the reader off balance:"Maybe it was dark, maybe you needed/ the piercing sweetness of its headlight,/its slow rumble, the slight tingle/on your soles as you stood barefoot/in your nightclothes, how it tugged/almost invisible cars across the field/like a slow string of words, a sentence/ you didn't know would be spoken." This is a gorgeous moving on, a scary and sweet challenge, the way someone, almost unknown to herself is heading somewhere new.

    "Seamless" is about saying what you couldn't say before. What is shadow? How do we love? Pennisi shines best in her inventive language and her longing for beauty. She wants "To finger the keys, to finger the clear light."
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