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Incidental Pollen - by Ellen Austin-Li (Paperback)

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  • RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZEIncidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar-like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry.
  • Author(s): Ellen Austin-Li
  • 94 Pages
  • Poetry, Subjects & Themes

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Incidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar-like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry. Trauma and loss appear in these poems, but the arc centers on the search for belonging... home.



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RUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZE

Incidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar-like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry. The hive serves as a thematic thread in this collection that explores the space between past and present, shame and redemption, grief and resilience. Poetic forms lend meaning-like the villanelle that captures the grief-driven magical thinking of the speaker. Are recurring red fox sightings visitations from her deceased father and nephew? Trauma and loss appear in these tonally rich and imagistic poems, but the arc ultimately centers on the search for belonging, the attempt to recreate home.



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In Incidental Pollen, the presence of the bee hovers over lives, dreams, memory, and beloved dead-a conduit for poems that speak a language "native to wounds." Some formal, some tightly structured free verse, these poems at last look fear in the face and refuse to stay silent. Lean in and listen to them hum.-Meg Kearney, author of All Morning the Crows and The Ice Storm

"We eat what we need," Ellen Austin-Li writes in the opening poem of her remarkable first full-length collection, Incidental Pollen. These powerful poems are rich with sensory, musical, and emotional detail and yet they ache with hunger. Her work is a reminder of the ways in which art in all its forms has the power to feed in how it connects us with each other and with the world.-Pauletta Hansel, author of Heartbreak Tree, winner of the Poetry Society of Virginia's 2023 North American Book Award

Ellen Austin-Li has been both a healer and one in need of healing, recounting in this wrenching collection the amplifying grief of accumulated loss and the apocalypse of addiction. In seeing her experiences as part and parcel of the cycles of nature she observes around her, this poet of stunning candor and empathy expresses the fullness of her hard-won wisdom.-Iain Haley Pollock, author of Ghost, Like a Place


Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .23 Inches (D)
Weight: .33 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 94
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes
Publisher: Madville Publishing LLC
Theme: Death, Grief, Loss
Format: Paperback
Author: Ellen Austin-Li
Language: English
Street Date: May 20, 2025
TCIN: 1004579718
UPC: 9781963695250
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-4901
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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