Blue Rooms
BLUE ROOMS is an interrogation of the past, an elegy to things lost and left behind. Amanda Filippelli explores how young women are shaped by both their lineage and the cultural permissions we give to men. Cracking open all of the dark spaces families often hide away, Amanda lets pain, loss, judgment, and resentment come to the surface to be dissected and dismissed. Blue Rooms is a woman's reflective journey of discovery, growth and empowerment, raising questions of self, identity, and agency throughout.
“There’s a lyricism and a music about her words that makes them hurt as much as they sing, making this collection an empowering and harrowing look at love, trauma, family, and survival. This book of free verse poetry, full of powerful imagery and a palpable feeling of honesty and vulnerability, contains exactly the kind of unapologetic healing we all need to be reminded is possible.
In her last poem, Filippelli bravely writes, ‘So it all stop here for you, but I go on…”
And so she does. And so she will.”
-CAITLYN SIEHL, author of Crybaby & What We Buried
BLUE ROOMS is an interrogation of the past, an elegy to things lost and left behind. Amanda Filippelli explores how young women are shaped by both their lineage and the cultural permissions we give to men. Cracking open all of the dark spaces families often hide away, Amanda lets pain, loss, judgment, and resentment come to the surface to be dissected and dismissed. Blue Rooms is a woman's reflective journey of discovery, growth and empowerment, raising questions of self, identity, and agency throughout.
“There’s a lyricism and a music about her words that makes them hurt as much as they sing, making this collection an empowering and harrowing look at love, trauma, family, and survival. This book of free verse poetry, full of powerful imagery and a palpable feeling of honesty and vulnerability, contains exactly the kind of unapologetic healing we all need to be reminded is possible.
In her last poem, Filippelli bravely writes, ‘So it all stop here for you, but I go on…”
And so she does. And so she will.”
-CAITLYN SIEHL, author of Crybaby & What We Buried
BLUE ROOMS is an interrogation of the past, an elegy to things lost and left behind. Amanda Filippelli explores how young women are shaped by both their lineage and the cultural permissions we give to men. Cracking open all of the dark spaces families often hide away, Amanda lets pain, loss, judgment, and resentment come to the surface to be dissected and dismissed. Blue Rooms is a woman's reflective journey of discovery, growth and empowerment, raising questions of self, identity, and agency throughout.
“There’s a lyricism and a music about her words that makes them hurt as much as they sing, making this collection an empowering and harrowing look at love, trauma, family, and survival. This book of free verse poetry, full of powerful imagery and a palpable feeling of honesty and vulnerability, contains exactly the kind of unapologetic healing we all need to be reminded is possible.
In her last poem, Filippelli bravely writes, ‘So it all stop here for you, but I go on…”
And so she does. And so she will.”
-CAITLYN SIEHL, author of Crybaby & What We Buried