Black ButterFly

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This compilation is dedicated to the foster child, the youth-in-crisis, and individuals striving to achieve positive change. I wrote my debut novel BLACK BUTTERFLIES (2022) to understand the siege that devastated Sarajevo from 1992-1996. From there, he travels to Kingston, Jamaica, where he meets the chief culprit behind his misadventures – the progeny of an old enemy, Cassivelaunus Fetch Junior, who is using a "New Scout Movement" to mask his mass poisoning schemes. Black Butterflies is a rare gem of a novel that celebrates kindness amidst horror, without romanticising war in any way. Black Butterfly is a collection of poems that are about memories and experiences after losing someone in death or in life.

Amongst the horror and deprivation, there are snatched moments of happiness: a shared meal assembled from scraps of food, the telling of stories around a makeshift fire, a ‘bring your own art’ exhibition, the warmth of another body next to yours. Braving the elements and coping with food shortages no electricity, no heat and no water while trying to stay alive amid mortar fire and sniper bullets they also bear witness to the destruction of the city they all love and the lives they built around it. Persuasively arguing that because urban apartheid was intentionally erected it can be intentionally dismantled, The Black Butterfly demonstrates that America cannot reflect that Black Lives Matter until we see how Black neighborhoods matter. Drake is an American author known for his bestselling books BEAUTIFUL CHAOS and BLACK BUTTERFLY, among others.

Sarajevo is a multicultural city (where the city is full of the Muslim, Serb, Croat, and Yugoslav populations) but racial sentiments, and ethnic tensions have arisen, and conflict is brewing. I discovered that it was the longest siege in modern warfare and it gave me insight into what living in a war zone must be like for those Ukrainians who are unable to leave. Told from Zora’s POV, the use of third-person helped remind me that this beautifully written, descriptive, heartbreaking, and reflective story wasn’t a memoir! If you’re going through a break-up, you lost a friend, or something just simply happened, then pick this up. Black Butterflies is a compelling piece of historical fiction, a very readable account of civilian life during the 1992 siege of Sarajevo.

When violence finally spills over, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety with her daughter in England. The author’s note clarifies which two persons' experiences she combined and adapted into this story.The Bosnian war of 1992–1995 was something I knew little about, and this book helped me get some context. I was interested in the subject matter but this feels superficial in treatment and with no subtlety or nuance or additional historical insight, or any sense of knowledge beyond that which anyone outside of the former Yugoslavia could have read in the newspapers. At Black Butterfly Books, we welcome opportunities to collaborate on projects that serve the youth and their communities. Showed a few of the guys at work and for people that hate reading anything even they started taking pictures of poems that resonated. Set in 1992, Zora Kočović is an art professor who lives in Sarajevo with her husband, Franjo (a former journalist), and her 83 years old mother.

Much of the information (the particular non-profit organizations, government entities, local laws and budgets, etc. At the risk of sounding stupid, I had no idea that Baltimore was a prominent slave trading site and later on the site of the first bloodshed of the Civil War.

He ends with a plea to Make Black Neighborhoods Matter (Track 6) and concludes with solutions on how to do so in Healing the Black Butterfly (Track 7). It covers the first 10 months, and while it doesn't shy away from the horror and desperation, it also provides an insight to the warmth and humanity of the multicultural populace, trying to go about their ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances. Sorry, I don't want to sound like a book-snob, but this is far more commercial in writing style, tone and attitude than I expected (lots of those 'cold needles of panic pierced my stomach' type sentences - ugh!