I feel unable to praise Yuyutsu
Sharma's new collection adequately. I think of Whitman, Neruda, Lorca. Sharma
is a fever and river, at moments a rhapsody and the gods sing through him even
his workshop is messy. Yuyutsu Sharma should be known as The Himalayan Neruda
not only for the torrents of images and compassion and outrage in his poetry
but for the range of his subjects, themes and imagery. Reading him I feel as I
do when reading Neruda that he could make first rate poetry out of anything, as
he ranges like a vartic voice of the Himalayas through the natural beauties of
Nepal and cities of the world.
—Mike Graves, American poet
and teacher, City University of New York, author, A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders:
Michael Graves is the author of four chapbooks, two
of which are digital, and three full-length collections. The chapbooks are Outside St. Jude’s (R. E. M.,1990), Blatnoy (madhattersreview3.com, 2005), Illegal Border Crosser (Cervena Barva,
2008), and Fifteen Villanelles
(Robert Perron.com 2020). The full-length books are Adam and Cain and In
Fragility (Black Buzzard, 2006, 2011) and A Prayer for the Less Violent Offenders: Selected Short Poems of Mike Graves
(Nirala, 2017). He has published fifteen poems in The James Joyce Quarterly and has read from his “Joycean Poems” to
a gathering of the James Joyce Society at the Gotham Book Mark, April 12, 2002.
His poem “Apollo to Daphne” appears in Gods
and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford, 2001) The Ludwig
Vogelstein Foundation awarded him a grant in 2006. He organized the conference,
Baptism by Fire: The Work of James Wright at Poets House, NY (March 27, 2004).
And he has been coordinating and hosting the Phoenix Reading Series for about
twenty years.
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