Author Description

In a search for timely peace, The Feathers of Butterfly: Poetry of Life, Light, and Brokenness is a rush journey into the wildness and dark corners of human souls. Steve Anc observes nature through poetic eyes and has seen social unrest, imbalance life, lack of brotherly love, the quest for God, the doubt and quest in human souls, the unfulfilled dream, the unfulfilled love, the broken thoughts; and through deeply personal reflection has traced a path from bitter history to the current predicament. He has drawn a canny connection between the uncertainty of nature and the long arm of humanity, with reconciliation of conflicting thoughts; and this collection offers reconciliation and preparation into hopeful destinations from our current climate of clustered thoughts. In The Feathers of Butterfly, Steve mines into the deep sacred of ancestors through the living world and raises his unique poetic lines for the world to see. What People Say Steve Anc's collection The Feathers of Butterfly is at once filled with beautiful imagery and contains quietly devastating lines such as, 'the ashes of our home will remain.' Steve Anc writes with a kind of hard-won wisdom that is not all that common these days. Many of the poems have a proverbial and universal quality that is mythic in scope. In the poem 'To my brother in the sea, ' we find the line, 'No man sails without tales.' Steve Anc is a poet who appreciates the power of a story told well. There is further wisdom expressed simply and clearly in the poem 'The Girl That Doesn't Wear Slippers, ' where we find the universally truthful observation that 'freedom comes with envy.' This collection performs what poetry does best of all the forms of creative writing: expressing multitudes of experiences and emotions in just a few lines. In 'My Letter to the Lady Bianca', we are given the following lovely lines: Where your smile will serene the sky.<br