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Firefly

Firefly

Paperback

Addiction & RecoveryGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.99

ISBN10: 1635349133
ISBN13: 9781635349139
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: May 3 2019
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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