Anne Leigh Parrish

Diary of a False Assassin

Poems by Anne Leigh Parrish | Unsolicited Press Dec. 2024

In Diary of a False Assassin, Parrish’s third collection, eighty-four poems reveal the miracles of nature, the oppression of women, and the pain of family life. Political violence and human frailty abound. In landscapes real and imagined, the author reflects on life as we know it, and what we wish it to become.

Praise for Diary of a False Assassin

Anne Leigh Parrish’s In a montage of eighty-four spare yet exquisite poems and fifteen accompanying photographs, Anne Leigh Parrish’s Diary of a False Assassin taps into a vast swath of human emotion and does so with deep sensitivity and meticulous precision.  The result is a collection at once moving, haunting, and so often unexpected.   Few if any contemporary American writers can capture, in the way Parrish does with such seeming ease, the epic tragedy of minor losses or the wondrous joys of modest triumphs.  A stirring and soulful exploration of the natural world and the universe of our own creation.— Jacob M. Appel, author of The Cynic in Extremis.