Anhthao is the author of Yellow Flower, a poetry collection marking her 11- year, long-distance marathon toward production of her own literature. With almost 60 poems, Yellow Flower reveals Anhthao's secret life of inner struggles and conflicts—love, patriotism, anger, regret, and self-doubt. Although pain and sorrow are the major themes, some positive poems are full of hope and appreciation toward the United States and its people.
Yellow Flower is the book for those who are seeking reading emotional poetry.
Anhthao wishes to dedicate Yellow Flower to the celebration marking San Jose State University's 150th anniversary.
Anhthao Bui had lived in Saigon, Vietnam before she migrated to San Jose, California in late 1996. She started learning English as a Second Language at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose in the fall of 1997. She transferred to San Jose State University in the fall of 2000, and graduated in May 2004. Anhthao Bui earned her bachelor of arts in English.
Ms. Bui's background is multicultural and includes education in French, Vietnamese, Buddhism, Catholicism, Confucianism, Communism, and Western Civilization.
Anhthao Bui continued her education at National University in San Jose in June 2005. After one year attending at NU, she gave up her educational path because she could no longer suffer the staff’s accent prejudice.
POETRY
Poetry
Saves my life
Poetry
Wins my death
Poetry
Heals my tattered wound
Poetry
Mends my broken heart
DREAMING
Melancholy sounds
In a quiet night
Taking me
To his room
Joy and pain
Tear my heart
Numb my cells
Torture my body
Chop me down
Into his bed
Haikus I
Among foreigners
Language and culture differ
I'm blind, deaf, and dumb
Melancholy tears
Fall on Shakespeare's masterpieces
Cloud men's loneliness
Anguish eats my flesh
Solitude swallows my blood
Fear hacks me to death
I am a phoenix
Death, rebirth—a life cycle
Crawl on a new path