INHERITANCE OF COURAGE AND FEAR ————–by Anna Mae Perillo
$14.99
And isn’t the story of our lives the story of our women, the mythology we have lived and been bequeathed? Anna Mae Perillo’s INHERITANCE OF COURAGE AND FEAR speaks, sings through memory and desire. Duality is here in these poems, excavated and resolved. She asks, what are we if not the humble and fierce products of some other country within our own? And what of the tension that lies in the answer, which is the reason for who we are and what we do, and, most importantly, what we leave in our wake. This collection is a beautiful remembrance and conjuring of what passes through us, and what brings us to our political and intimate moments, as alive as it is elegiac. Remember, it whispers, and we do.
–VANESSA JIMENEZ GABB, author of Images for Radical Politics, Midnight Blue and Weekend Poems.
If you think of a chapbook as a small book, you’re going to have to adjust your judgement here. Anna Mae Perillo has sculpted a book that never remains personal because she introduces the individuals in her poems and then the reader to their connection with a much bigger world. Enter here and see how big a chapbook can get.
–FRAN QUINN, author of A Horse of Blue Ink, co-author of Sound Ideas and the recipient of the 2019 Stanley Kunitz Prize.
Anna Mae Perillo has created a “beautiful nest” of family and friends engaging each other and the world, celebrating victories, sharing worries. Her essential nature is to bloom: “To claw up through the dense soil/ To meet the sun,” being present in each moment.
–MYRA SHAPIRO, author of 12 Floors Above the Earth, I’ll See you Thursday, and Four Sublets. Her poem “These are the Pearls” appeared in the New Yorker, July, 2019. She serves on the Board of Directors of Poets House.
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INHERITANCE OF COURAGE AND FEAR
by Anna Mae Perillo
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-306-8
2020
ANNA MAE PERILLO is a poet who writes at the Jersey Shore, in New York City and just about anywhere else her voice and the voices of others including her ancestors command she take notice. She has also recently completed her first novel, Porcelain and her second short play, Mariana & the Wild Boars. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English & Education, minor in Dance from Rutgers University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Seton Hall University. Anna Mae has taught as an adjunct faculty member in the Writing Department at Brookdale Community College and practices law in Red Bank, New Jersey primarily as a divorce mediator. As a pioneer of peaceful resolution, she teaches mediation skills to other professionals. Anna Mae gives poetry readings in New York City, Miami, and in a digital global village as a member of the International Women’s Writing Guild. She is also a proud member of the Poet’s House. She fights to choose only the best of what she wishes to inherit and gets frustrated that the choices are not always in our control. She believes ultimately, this book’s message is one of hope and strength.
Janice Davis Miller –
Anna Mae Perillo’s poetry speaks to “everywoman” who is a mother, daughter, sister, granddaughter. Her gift is deep and essential. Her art well crafted. In the words of Maya Angelou “Anna Mae, Write On!”
Frank S. Gaudio –
Raw,deep and to the heart. A quiver you can’t forget.
Jamie Rose –
I thoroughly enjoyed the poetry of this beautiful book. Compassion for the human condition from an honest voice.I read it a few months ago and find I carry the poems within me.
judith Baer –
I enjoyed this book so much I read it twice and my husband enjoyed it as well. It is a beautiful collections of thought provoking poems that are artfully composed. I felt a whole range of emotions from sadness to laughter. I especially thought about people and events in my life.
Jenine Marie Powell –
This is a beautifully honest and thought provoking book of poetry. Anna Mae Perillo’s words provide vivid snapshots capturing the essence of familial bonds and life’s joys, struggles and contradictions. The finality of life interspersed with hope. Descriptive personal details interspersed with universal grander themes. A peek into one woman’s world that reveals something about our own.