Counting by Sevens
(By Ann E. Wallace)
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Praise for Counting by Sevens:
Wallace’s great feat in this book of poems about both her life-threatening illnesses and our persistent national injustices is to leave readers with a sense of hope. In an unsparing conversational style that eschews metaphor, she pulls this off with tales of resilient lives, highlighting girlhood: her own, her mother’s, and her daughters’. Life is lived deliberately in an imperfect country, with other people, and against all odds. ~E. Shaskan Bumas, author of the Grace Paley Award winning book The Price of Tea in China
Counting by Sevens is about how we make sense of our wounds. Wallace takes us through the national injuries inflicted by injustice, the damage done to us in relationships, and finally to the betrayal of our bodies in illness. She moves from national injury to the increasingly intimate, cellular level of our bodies, and in clear-eyed, unsentimental poetry, brings readers to their knees, showing that bearing witness to suffering is a form of healing. ~N. West Moss, author of The Subway Stops at Bryant Park (Leapfrog Press, 2017)
Author's Bio:
Ann E. Wallace, PhD, was raised in a small coastal town in Massachusetts but has lived in Jersey City, NJ for many years. As a long-time survivor of ovarian cancer and as a woman with multiple sclerosis, she reflects on the embodied experience of illness and trauma through poetry and prose, as well as in her scholarship. Her creative work has appeared in Wordgathering, Juniper, Literary Nest, The Capra Review, Snapdragon, and other journals. She is an English professor at New Jersey City University, and her work can be found online at AnnWallacePhD.com.”
