Poetry. "The volume is a condensed, chiseled little box of miraculously moving poems, more American in essence, in spite of their travel content. Like a Sufi, his writing is an excursion into the world of dualities and the myriad colours of the sky, the earth and the world we live in. It is a delight to see in this slim volume the vital vistas of the earth conjured in his ennobling images to cherish, preserve and celebrate the imagined secrets of our formidable voyages."--Yuyutsu Sharma "There is so much wisdom in Robert Scotto's new collection of poems, IMAGINED SECRETS: NEW POEMS. Consider this, from 'Wisdom': '...The advice / Of the old is like the winter's sun: / It brings some light, but little warmth.' 'Wisdom' notwithstanding, there is also warmth. In 'Serenade in Argentina,' Scotto writes to a life partner, 'I miss you even when you are near / because you are never near enough.' Like the Van Gogh of his 'VG,' Scotto suffers 'to perfection' in these poems, with 'vibrant ecstatic pain.' And it's with vibrant ecstatic pain that the poet experiences the impermanence of his time here on earth, a sense that the reader experiences working through this slim but densely packed volume."--Tim Tomlinson

Imagined Secrets: New Poems (Nirala)

Literature & Fiction

Scotto, Robert

Poetry

Nirala Publications

This is a major anthology from one of South Asia's most prominent poet's who has made Annapurna region his home for last two decades. Yuyutsu's devotion for the mountains and the people living there is unparalleled. Though his work was interrupted with the rise of insurgency and the consequent political turmoil in the Himalayan nation, the poet continued to long for the hidden valleys and mule paths where, as the scriptures say, the soul of the Gods lives. Even in his dreams he conjures the treks to the remote Himalayan regions, searching for life on the bleeding mule paths of human struggle, listening to the chorus of cicadas and dramas of hunger and strife in the hushed grounds of Little Paradise Lodge, chartering history of human attempts to invade the realm of eternal snow with moving cameras, frozen spaghetti and plastic bags.Like exquisite fields of Himalayan flowers, these are poems of high artistic integrity about harsh truths of mystery, history and humanity. Sensual, sharp and stunning, these concrete images will leave the readers breathless. A huge achievement, bringing alive the unsung agony of the people of the high Himalaya

Annapurna Poems

Yuyutsu R. D. Sharma

Poetry. Women's Studies. Chock full of song and timbre and truth on every page, S. Renay Sanders' DANCING IN PLACE is an intimate look into the landscape of Northern Ohio's working class. Metal lunch boxes, lace-up boots; women in pert party dresses with Bibles tucked safely in their purses, this collection showcases the realities, the courage and honor it takes for "hometown" culture to survive urban growth. The way people living in these communities lean into one another to preserve the rich roots of where it all began--with the music. The tempo of the rain hitting the ground, the cadence of cicadas; from those early primal connections fixed in mountain music, to Polka, to Rock and Roll, to Up Town Funk. "Believe me reader, you will feel the beat."--Kari Gunter-Seymour "DANCING IN PLACE delivers a generous serving of poetry from a lady with her sleeves rolled up at the all-night cafeteria across from the music club. Memories, characters, emotions, experience, all the ingredients. Savor the word song."--Chuck Joy "S. Renay Sanders' poems celebrate post industrial Cleveland while hearkening back to her Appalachian roots. These are lyrics laced with wry humor and raw emotion that dance 'in the light of the full now moon.' Feel their pull and sway."--Ray MacNeice

Dancing in Place: Poems (Nirala)

Sanders, S. Renay

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Latinx Studies. A stunning book of photographs and writing that explores the power and mystery of ancient indigenous healing practices among the Maya people of Guatemala. "Fran Antmann grew to know a culture, lived in it, merged with it, translated it, and loved it. She photographed the dreams that guide us to wisdom and healing, then wrapped those images in quetzal feathers. Today, she returns her vision of the world to the men and women she met through this encounter between cultures. It is a privilege to have been invited to write the preface to this book which is more than a book--it is a revelation."--Carolina Escobar Sarti, Guatemalan poet "Fran Antmann's work in MAYA HEALERS, years in the making, is imbued with the depth and texture only great photography can achieve; where the images transcend being mere documents but reach great art. Many of the images, especially of the people in their daily lives, are transcendent and absolutely gorgeous, revealing an empathy and visual perception that is timeless."--Ed Kashi, international prize-winning photojournalist

Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams

Arts & Photography

Antmann, Fran

Photography & Video

Poetry. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. A BLIZZARD IN MY BONES: NEW YORK POEMS is a brilliant and groundbreaking new work focusing on the "first city of the world" by the internationally acclaimed Himalayan poet, Yuyutsu Sharma. Reminiscent of F.G. Lorca, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O' Hara and Carl Sandburg, the poems constitute Sharma's reflections on what it means for a Himalayan poet to transform to a new creation, a New Yorker. The poet begins the book with a shamanic vision of his grandmother several decades ago, then weaves a family tapestry of a traditional life abandoned as the poet embraces the artist's life and its ceaseless wanderings around the globe. In an evocative sequence, the poet is sleeping by the Atlantic shore where he envisions his deceased mother getting ready for a marriage that will never take place; and as the poet wakes, he moves from vision to vision as his Himalayan culture collides with the cultures of New York City: "a zoo / of blazing skyline on a moonlit night / and steps into a place / six feet deep, dank, under ocean, omnivorous." Sharma carefully unfolds a tender but triumphant vision of a metropolis that is not a city of any one country, but of the world. Most importantly, as in all of Sharma's work, A BLIZZARD IN MY BONES: NEW YORK POEMS celebrates a shared, ennobling vision of humanity. Recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Yuyutsu Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator. Widely traveled author, he has authored ten poetry collections. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world to read from his works and conducts creative writing workshop at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. Currently, Yuyutsu is a visiting poet at Columbia University, New York.

A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems

Sharma, Yuyutsu

Poetry. ALL VOWS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is the most thorough selection from a most vibrant contemporary American voice, David B. Axelrod. The result of his forty-plus years as a professional poet, the book is divided almost equally between new work and poems going back to his first book published in 1968. However, the contents are arranged thematically rather than chronologically, including poems dealing with family, nature, sports; poems about prejudice and politics; covering a host of topics ranging from the sacred to the profane. Current Volusia County, Florida, Poet Laureate, Axelrod writes in direct but clever language--more witty than metaphoric. A poem entitled "Sun Worship," that recounts the warnings of his dermatologist, ends with the lament, "No one can tell me Vitamin D stands for death." Celebrated American poet, editor and anthologist, X. J. Kennedy, commenting on a previous Axelrod collection, said, "For all the artfulness of his poems, there is something unliterary about them--that is, they don't smell of the scholar's lamp. They seem at times to have turned up in the Lost & Found department of a hotel in Long Island City." That easy artfulness is reflected in the comments of Florida's State Poet Laureate, Peter Meinke: "Many of us have been reading David B. Axelrod's approachable, wise, and witty poems for decades, so it's a real treat to have so many of them collected in one book. ALL VOWS deserves a wide and appreciative readership." William Stafford, whose own poems were renowned for their simple artfulness, described Axelrod's work as, "Poems to cherish and pass around...a prize to keep."

All Vows: New & Selected Poems

Axelrod, David

Poetry. "Clutching her vision firmly in hand, Karen Corinne Herceg paints her inner world in such a vivid fashion that I was compelled to submerge myself in OUT FROM CALABOOSE completely, and then not surface at all until I put down the last poem. What I wove through during the course of that reading was a feast: imagery fine enough that it startled; rhythms that wove from poem to poem, joining all their music together; and language so sleek that not one word had been left standing if it ought not to be. In this collection, Herceg brings us her life and all its many emotional truths, some ugly, some beautiful, but all revealed with restraint--so that by book's end, we are left in wonder."--Linda Gray Sexton "In OUT FROM CALABOOSE, Karen Corinne Herceg traces what one might call a karmic trajectory from oppressive relationships in adult life back to a controlling or absent parent whose chiseled stone dates leave 'impressions in her flesh.' And, after that, to a freeing."--Roberta Gould "OUT FROM CALABOOSE is a marvelous, skillful, and evocative work."--Dr. David B. Austell, Columbia University "This is a remarkable work, a Virginia Woolf moment stretched into a book of poems, or a Whitman rumination that refuses to come to an end, enamored as it is by life's ongoing rush. OUT FROM CALABOOSE affirms Herceg's faith in a poet's visionary status as she imagines her hand reaching toward, snapping through 'embryonic clay' and sculpting lives that could become whole..."--Yuyutsu Sharma, Himalayan Poet

Out from Calaboose : New Poems

Herceg, Karen Corinne

Poetry. Women's Studies. Sparkling musicality, deep emotion and discerning reflection distinguish O' Garden's poems. Here is a fine intelligence at work--and at play--revealing a tonic perspective in a range of poetic expression, including lyric, narrative and her own innovative "fulcrum" forms. Her close observation and sensual delight in language make FULCRUM an experience both grounding and uplifting. "For many years now, the poet, playwright, and memoirist Irene O'Garden has been a hero to me. I think of her as a walking, writing, beam of light...numberless others will come to know her gifts and, most of all, her captivating talent for wonder and marvel."--Elizabeth Gilbert "Fulcrum is a stunning assessment of human life on the planet, ...a newer version of The Waste Land...the poems once read will become part of you and help you 'know the knowing that we know.'"--Yuyutsu Sharma "Somewhere between Wordsworth and Dylan Thomas but soaring on her own wings, Irene O'Garden flies high, taking language to new strata with effortless-appearing dips and ascents which made me gasp."--Laura Shaine Cunningham "Her technique suggests influences ranging from Donne to Bishop, from Frost to Moore. Soulful and rewarding, these poems remind us that 'We're not made of matter but of mattering.'"--T.R. Hummer "Beautiful imagery, powerful emotions, simplicity, complexity and thought-provoking subjects--all drawn from relatable life experiences...This is a beautiful collection."--Professor Jane Kinney-Denning of Pace University

Fulcrum: Selected Poems

O’Garden, Irene

Poetry. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. ETERNAL SNOW is a testament to the power of words to inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant places. Over one hundred and twenty-five poets from around the world come together in this anthology to explore their interactions, collisions, and intersections with Yuyutsu Sharma, renowned Himalayan poet, journalist, translator, and editor from Kathmandu, Nepal. The book is a clear example of the new world itinerancy of the modern poet, and the global efficacy of poetry, in that Yuyu's world travels have touched the hearts and minds of thousands of people who have heard his readings around the world and read his words in print and online. Not all the contributors are professional poets. ETERNAL SNOW also captures the poetic voices of a hairstylist, a photographer, a Yoga teacher, a priest, a nurse, and a social scientist. In these pages, a young poet in Kathmandu sees her late father in Yuyu's face; a social worker conjures the Goddess of the Children while serving the Bhutanese refugees in California; a New York University professor ponders an Asian challenge: setting her house on fire to become a real poet. The results captured in these poems attest to the literary collisions which occur when global poets meet. ETERNAL SNOW is a singular, remarkable, and moving work of art. Includes poetry by John Clarke, David Ray, James Ragan, Ravi Shankar, Eileen O'Connor, Gorka Lasa, Pascale Petit, Elena Karina Byrne, Chuck Joy, Amarendra Khatua, Ruth Danon, Tim Tomlinson, Verónica Aranda, David Axlerod, Tony Barnstone, Art Good Times, Kim Nuzzo, Robin Mets, Barbara Novack, Hélène Cardona, Irene O' Garden, Agnes Marton, Carolyn Wells, M. L. Williams, Diane Frank, Bill Wolak, and Others

Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Travel. This is a major anthology from one of South Asia's most prominent poet's who has made the Annapurna region his home for last two decades. Yuyutsu's devotion for the mountains and the people living there is unparalleled. Though his work was interrupted with the rise of insurgency and the consequent political turmoil in the Himalayan nation, the poet continued to long for the hidden valleys and mule paths where, as the scriptures say, the soul of the Gods lives. Even in his dreams he conjures the treks to the remote Himalayan regions, searching for life on the bleeding mule paths of human struggle, listening to the chorus of cicadas and dramas of hunger and strife in the hushed grounds of Little Paradise Lodge, chartering history of human attempts to invade the realm of eternal snow with moving cameras, frozen spaghetti and plastic bags. Like exquisite fields of Himalayan flowers, these are poems of high artistic integrity about harsh truths of mystery, history and humanity. Sensual, sharp and stunning, these concrete images will leave the readers breathless. A huge achievement, bringing alive the unsung agony of the people of the high Himalaya.

Annapurna Poems: Poems New & Collected

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