Firefly - Softcover

Austin-Li, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1635349133 ISBN 13: 9781635349139

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2019

Synopsis

In her debut poetry collection, Firefly, Ellen Austin-Li tells the intimate story of her own descent into alcoholism/addiction and subsequent recovery. These poems are inhabited by light and shadow, flying insects and cocoons, the woods and the water—each one a brush stroke on canvas. Taken together, these poems form an impressionistic painting of what it is like to struggle with alcoholism/addiction, as well as what it is like to learn how to live sober. Ultimately, the peace this poet seeks is found within the natural world: “I’ve heard the woods can heal you....” The deep inner strength she discovers is mirrored in the experience of viewing a partial eclipse: “yet marveled at the power of sun, who gave so much light with the smallest fraction of herself.” In the end, this poet comes to realize, “I am not a low hum, but, oh, so much more luminous than I once believed.”

 

About this title

About the Author

Born and raised in Upstate, New York, Ellen Austin-Li now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband and two sons. Ellen is an award-winning poet published in Artemis, Amethyst Review, Writers Tribe Review, the Maine Review, Mothers Always Write, Memoir Mixtapes, and Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, as well as other publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635349133
• ISBN 13: 9781635349139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46