Maria Dulce Leitao Reis

Who Are You, Butterfly? Maria Dulce Leitao Reis

Maria Dulce Leitão Reis has written several books on poetry; this book - WHO ARE YOU BUTTERFLY? Is, however, a defining work in the questions she poses and the statements she makes - all of which aver to the character she holds - a testament that she lives in the glory of love and the light of beauty. A woman for all people who will always live through the words within this book. The array of poems tendered here might seem eclectic but the title holds the clue. Whether in the assortment of poems on humanitarianism (war, poverty, hunger, injustice or abuse) or statements on her own spiritual growth in confronting challenges and setbacks; the potent Japanese style gogy's and Haiku, or even the depictions of humour and pathos couched in life; she questions society but more herself and also answers it in an altruism that's touching. Answers that are moral yet not antagonistic, answers that are universal in time.