March 2004. 120 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-17-6; ISBN-10 3-901993-17-7
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The Penny Bride has a [...] complex skein of themes and imagery, but continues to hold her sense of a European past, and the complexities of her own mixed inheritance: Greek immigrant grand-parents, Boston education, Eastern European understanding. In this new book these legacies have become the means by which she can develop a new theme: erotic love. In tender, pungent lyrics of great delicacy, sexual acts are called up into our own thoughts, rather than in explicit description on the page. Slow-paced and often literal, she works with propositions, rather as in the Hebrew poetry of the Song of Solomon. [...] If Scott's subject matter is emotionally charged with Europe, her means are often American. Her techniques have developed since The Good Wife and now she is able to risk everything on the quiet music of her lines. She has a feeling for pause and hesitation which is drawn from American poetry. [...] All through the book, she has savoured the kind of love that produces "swarthy sons / not half the dinner bill." ("Call In the Pirates"). The Penny Bride is a true love song, not common in our contemporary culture, and finally, not so much a personal record as a tribute to passion itself.