Lockdown: Scenes from Early in the Pandemic - Hardcover

Austin-Li, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1646625943 ISBN 13: 9781646625949

Verlag: Finishing Line Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Art meets historical archive in Ellen Austin-Li's second poetry collection, Lockdown: Scenes from Early in the Pandemic. These poems center around life during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic: the mysterious virus as myth & fairytale, the first-responder husband, a son in quarantine, New York City's devastating refrigerated trucks as makeshift morgues. Grief, fear, and nostalgia for our relatively carefree pre-COVID lives ("oh / let us slow dance to a fast song / because we can") weaves a fabric that memorializes this international trauma. This book shows us that learning to live with fear and uncertainty uncovers the resilience we often don't know we have: "So you walk outdoors toward the blossoms / And the monster loses its hold in the trees /And you stand beneath the pink and crimson, / Its scent-feast you pray will cleanse and release /As the petals rain down in a shower."

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Ellen Austin-Li's first full-length collection, Incidental Pollen-a 2023 Trio Award finalist, a 2024 Wisconsin Poetry Series semi-finalist, and runner-up for the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize-is forthcoming from Madville Publishing. Finishing Line Press published her two chapbooks, Firefly (2019) and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic (2021). Her work appears in Artemis, Thimble Literary, The Maine Review, Salamander, Lily Poetry Review, Rust & Moth, and many other places. She's a Best of the Net nominee and holds an MFA in poetry from the Solstice Low-Residency Program. Ellen co-founded the monthly reading series, "Poetry Night at Sitwell's," in Cincinnati, where she lives.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1646625943
• ISBN 13: 9781646625949
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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