Dr. Emily Bilman is a widely published and anthologized author of poetry, literary essays, and non-fiction. Her PhD dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry was published by Lambert Academic, DE in 2010. Modern Ekphrasis (2013) was published by Peter Lang Academic, CH. Her poetry books, A Woman by A Well (2015), The Threshold of Broken Waters (2018), Apperception (2020), The Undertow (2023), and Resilience (2025) were published by Troubador Books, UK. Her sonnet, “Pathfinder”, landed on the moon with a time-capsule. She teaches literature, psychoanalysis, and creative writing in Geneva and New York.
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My latest poetry book "Apperception" highlights the intense dreaming process I experienced during the confinement due to our vulnerability caused by the pandemic. In the book, I tried to write about the reasons that brought about the Covid-19 crisis by referring to 18th century London life through the etchings and paintings of William Hogarth, the satirist painter.
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