THE BUTTERFLY'S CHOICE

Quintessential Books, 2022

Recent book of collected poetry reflecting American mindset, early 21st century and beyond

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is an award-winning writer, academic and critic. She has written eight books (with two more in progress) and has been awarded a Harvard Visiting Scholar¹s position from 2015-2016. atherton.com Blue twilight unfurls its splendour, a Didionesque gloaming for the lonely. I try to catch its tint in my cup, to taste its calm, but its inkiness spills over me until I am glass. Bathed in owl-light, I float on short blue wavelengths. I cannot be broken.

A review of the revival of M. Butterfly on Broadway,. “M Butterfly.” Asian Theatre Journal. 35.2 (2018): 490-495.

Erothanatos, 2021

Quintessential Fine Books, 2021

Philosophical poetry on the human condition.

2016

I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that the poetic structure-like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel-can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.-Michel Leiris, Manhood Our bodies communicate. This is my calling. This is my world. All is decided and ready; the servants, standing there, and again here, take my name, my fresh, my unknown name, and toss it before me. I enter.-Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Asean Eu Cultural Festival , 2022

From social to environmental transformation, the curatorial essay for the exhibition "Butterflies count not months but moments, and have enough time" brings together artistic perspectives from the young generation of EU and ASEAN artists on the idea of nature as a site of environmental and philosophical imagination to question the very notion of sustainability in terms of circular economy and in relation to cultural belonging. Do we identify with our environment? Is the environment simply the place we live in, or also the place we leave behind? Does the term ‘sustainability’ resonate equally in different parts of the world or is it tinted by cultural and social beliefs and behaviours?

Family Medicine, 2019

2007