The 55 poems in the collection A Butterfly’s Trembling in the Digital Age speak to the poet’s own generation about how technology affords new ways of expressing love, while nostalgically evoking times before Facebook and selfies. However, nature-versus-technology is not the primary theme here. In fact, most poems focus on how human beings are entangled with technology, and on how they jointly influence all aspects of being in the 21st century. The butterfly, a symbol of change and fragility, sounds a note of caution about using technology to reinvent love and quintessentially human values. The poet tries to catch those subtle harmonies that are often missed when ‘human’ and ‘technological’ are counterposed too exclusively, as Either/Or.
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