Publisher's Synopsis
From duende (darkness) to beauty to depth, the caterpillar struggles, evolves, and ultimately finds freedom to live and love in. 156 coming of age into love and adulthood poems divided into four volumes of dark, darker, light, and freedom. WONDROUS From great calamity comes great wisdom From great suffering comes great compassion From great ugliness, great beauty comes From the caged flower comes the blind caterpillar only able to crawl, taste and feel From the caterpillar comes the butterfly: unbounded, free, all-seeing From the butterfly comes the flower, and the garden is plentiful No art, no poem is more wondrous and beautiful.
