"Filippelli's poems cut like a knife dipped in sugar. Maybe honey. 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 stops here for you, but I go on...'

And so she does. And so she will."

-Caitlyn Siehl, author of What We Buried and Crybaby

"Haunting, ethereal, and untamed. Blue Rooms illuminates the spaces between now and eternity, between the world we can see and the world behind it. Amanda wrestles with the boundless and the infinite and a woman's intimate hungers in the shadows of mortality."

-Marissa LaRocca, author of Starving In Search of Me