The Existential Butterfly

About the Book

This book is the natural culmination of years of interest in writing poetry and years of studying and enjoying nature. The butterfly is a metaphor for many things - change, growth, rebirth, etc.

One of the things it symbolizes here is an earlier need to force ideas into the constraints of pattern and rhyme - evolving into thoughts and feelings flowing freely across the page. Also the shedding of the fear and laziness to actually become what I need to be.

I'm attempting to blur or even erase the boundaries between the five senses, and between what the senses experience and what the mind and spirit think and feel. I want to portray these things all blended together in a total experience - existence.

About the Author

I enjoy writing and reading poetry, especially French poetry from the exciting and revolutionry period in the latter half of the 19th Century. My original literary influences were Emily Dickenson, Carl Sandburg, and Robert Frost. I am also extremely interested in art. I paint regularly, and my influences are Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Claude Monet, and Salvador Dali. And I'm totaly into fashion! I love dresses, shoes, purses, jewelry, and makeup. I feel that a woman is like a mobile art gallery - painting her face like a canvas, forming her hair like sculpture, and displaying wonderful works of art upon her body. Fashion is art that you can wear! Of course there's the added benefit of getting the attention of the male population! Obviously not art, but definitely one of my major interests. I can be as ditsy and boy crazy as anyone!