Potery collection 435 (Edition1): Still Rising - Softcover

Butterfly, Phoenix Rainbow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9375100154 ISBN 13: 9789375100157

Publisher: Bookleaf Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

These poems rise from the in-between:where light and shadow meet, where grief sits beside joy, and where life's mess becomes a kind of beauty. Phoenix Rainbow Butterfly writes as someone who has carried, reclaimed and discarded labels. A Black Indigenous American, born post-segregation in the Deep South; neurosparky (her term for neurodivergent), disabled, non-binary; yet always reaching toward a deeper belonging that transcends every box. Their work invites readers to pause, breathe, and remember their shared wholeness and collective joy and pain.

About this title

About the Author

Phoenix Rainbow Butterfly is a poet, spouse, parent, therapist, and disability warrior. Born and raised as the first full generation after segregation in the Deep South, Phoenix proudly claims the labels that once felt just forbidden or targeted-Black Indigenous American, neurodivergent, non-binary-honoring what they lacked as a child and what once carried fear or stigma. At the same time, Phoenix rejects labels that divide, believing we are all connected and that Harmony in Diversity is more urgent than ever. After two decades in education and psychology, chronic illness reshaped their path; now poetry and photography help them transform pain into presence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bookleaf Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9375100154
• ISBN 13: 9789375100157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62