Another world brought home" by Ruth Danon
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Lost Horoscope takes us into a world we westerners don''t know - Yuyutsu Sharma travels the world and writes from and within that traveling connecting the urgent present with an urgent past, a modern world with an ancient one.
The title poem that opens the book is a knockout, bringing the poet back to writing after a time of silence and plague, connecting to memories of childhood even as it situates us in our present plague ridden contemporary reality.
Other poems are exotic, erotic, and deeply critical of a certain crudeness in the contemporary world even as the speaker finds himself embedded in it.
The writing is gorgeous; the journey well worth
undertaking,
