4 YUYUTSU READINGS THESE 6 DAYS http://www.walkingthinice.com/2011/01/4-yuyutsu/ www.walkingthinice.com

Yuyu reading at Visible Voice Books, November 2009 – foto by Smith

Jammed up jelly tight for the next 6 days due to hosting a Nepalese poet, so blogs may or may be scarce.

Our poet friend Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is reading 4 places in the next 6 dfays:

Yuyu Reading in Cleveland, Elyria and Lorain from his new book — Amazing Helambu –
a photographic and poetic journey through the Helambu and Langtang area
228 pages, 125 panoramic photographs, 19 poems
ISBN 978-3-9810883-1-1

January 28th at 6:30 p.m.
In Verse Lorain: A Poetry and Performing Arts Extravaganza
at the Lorain Arts Council’s 737 Gallery, 737 Broadway Avenue in Lorain, Ohio.

January 29, 2011: Yuyutsu Sharma Katie Daley
at Mac’s Backs.
7 PM, 1820 Coventry Rd.,
Cleveland Hts., OH 44118. 216-321-2665.

January 30th at 1 p.m.
PoetryElyria at Jim’s Coffeehouse, 2 Kerstetter Way in Elyria, Ohio

February 2nd at 7 p.m.
Snoetry: A World Record Winter Wordfest
at Jim’s Coffeehouse,
2 Kerstetter Way in Elyria, Ohio

Here is a short sweet 10 year old poem — more rhyme per buck with 4 lines, 6 rhyming words: hole, soul, black, crack, sky, I. And actually backed rhymes internally too.

Used Karma Lot

I cut the cockroach off at the watering hole
Sent his brown backed soul
To that great black crack in the sky
May God have more compassion than I

– Steven B. Smith, 2001

Yuyu recording at Peter Ball’s Apartment One studio, November 2009 – foto by Smith

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Yuyutsu Sharma at Shangri-la Dialog Readings. Maryland

Yuyutsu with Sta Panday

Yogesh Upadhyaya, founder editor of Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post at the reading

Yuyutsu Sharma's Cornelia St. Cafe, NYU Reading

February 04-February 11, 2011

Friday, Feb 04 - 6:00PM SON OF PONY Kat Georges, host Yuyutsu RD Sharma; Mikelle Terson The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. Featured poet: Yuyutsu RD Sharma Spotlight poet: Mikelle Terson Yuyutsu RD Sharma was born at Nakodar, Punjab, and moved to Nepal at an early age. He has published eight poetry collections including, Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow (Nirala Publications, New Delhi) and Space Cake, Amsterdam and Other Poems from Europe and America (Howling Dog Press). He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, and The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, among others. His work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish & Dutch. When not traveling, Yuyutsu lives in Kathmandu, where he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing. Spotlight poet Mikelle Terson has been writing since age 8, and credits her poetry to the taking of long showers, and her mentor, the late Irish poet & playwright, Michael Sayers. The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m

Yuyu'S Maryland Reading tomorrow

by Yuyutsu Sharma on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 5:04pm

Sunday, Jan 23, 2011

6.00 pm

Yuyu reading at

Shangri-la Dialogue

with Nepali community

at

26 federal court,

Gaithersburg,

Maryland 20877

Anyone interested in joining,

Please phone: 646 702 4494 or

646 431 190

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    Yuyutsu Sharma Friends in Washington or Maryland can join, I shall be reading in Nepali and English...

    about a minute ago ·

Yuyutsu Sharma's forthcoming Ohio Readings

Yuyutsu Sharma's forthcoming Ohio Readings

Yuyu Reading in Cleveland and Lorain from his new book--

www.AmazingHelambu.de -

a photographic and poetic journey through the Helambu and Langtang area

228 pages, 125 panoramic photographs, 19 poems
ISBN 978-3-9810883-1-1
www.AmazingHelambu.de - eine photographisch-poetische Reise durch das Helambu und Langtang Gebiet
228 Seiten, 125 Panorama-Photographien, 19 Gedichte

January 28th at 6:30 p.m.

In Verse Lorain: A Poetry and Performing Arts Extravaganza

at the Lorain Arts Council's 737 Gallery, 737 Broadway Avenue in Lorain, Ohio.

January 29, 2011: Yuyutsu Sharma Katie Daley

at Mac's Backs.

7 PM, 1820 Coventry Rd.,

Cleveland Hts., OH 44118. 216-321-2665.

January 30th at 1 p.m.

PoetryElyria at Jim's Coffeehouse, 2 Kerstetter Way in Elyria, Ohio

February 2nd at 7 p.m.

Snoetry: A World Record Winter Wordfest

at Jim's Coffeehouse,

2 Kerstetter Way in Elyria, Oh

Thin Air Interview-- Airs tomorrow night Channel 67(MNN)

Yuyutsu Sharma

Thin Air Interview-- Edited Version

Poetry Thin Air Interview - Yuyutsu Sharma

www.youtube.com

In-depth Poetry Thin Air Cable Interview of world-poet Yuyutsu Sharma, in a lively conversation with co-producer George Spencer. Mr. Sharma also recites his poetry. This is Episode 50 in an ongoing original series. Video duties performed by director-producer Mitch Corber. For more info, contact poe

he show airs every Wednesday night at 8:30 pm on Channel 67

(MNN/Manhattan Neighborhood Network)

Note: if you live outside Manhattan or can't get MNN Ch 67, you can still watch

the live internet stream of the show by following instructions below.

INTERNET STREAM.....

1. Click on www.mnn.org

2. Viewing the right column of MNN webpage, go to "MNN4 Culture"

3. Click "Watch MNN4 Live"

4. Click small icon to watch full screen on your computer during live broadcast.

(You can only watch the streaming video in real time, i.e. at 8:30pm Wednesday night)

Yuyutsu Sharma's Radio Active Lunch Interview, Vassar College

http://radioactivelunch.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

January 19 2011:

Lunch Archive - Interviews

Written by Adam Roufberg

Saturday, 08 January 2011

Listen to the Interview with Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma>>

I broadcast an interview/poetry reading wthYuyutsu R.D. Sharma on his recent travels and publications - The Nepal Trilogy, Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow, and Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America.

On Saturday January 15 (6:00 pm) - Yuyutsuwill be reading from his Helambu book at theUtopian Directions Bookstore at 7 West St in Warwick NY .

Readings of Yuyutsu's Poetry on RAL:

• Mona Lisa's Drunk >>
  
• Someone Left a Pen >>
• Gentlemen, Van Gogh's Museum >>
  
• At 40 You Die >>

Recent Broadcasts
January 19 2011: Head-Roc and the "Empower DC" Project, Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma and Dr. Manoj Abraham with Healing the Children on Radio Active Lunch

Yuyutsu Sharma's Radio Active Lunch Interview, Vassar College

January 19 2011:

Lunch Archive - Interviews

Written by Adam Roufberg

Saturday, 08 January 2011

Listen to the Interview with Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma>>

I broadcast an interview/poetry reading wthYuyutsu R.D. Sharma on his recent travels and publications - The Nepal Trilogy, Annapurnas and Stains of Blood: Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow, and Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America.

On Saturday January 15 (6:00 pm) - Yuyutsuwill be reading from his Helambu book at theUtopian Directions Bookstore at 7 West St in Warwick NY .

Readings of Yuyutsu's Poetry on RAL:

• Mona Lisa's Drunk >>
  
• Someone Left a Pen >>
• Gentlemen, Van Gogh's Museum >>
  
• At 40 You Die >>

Recent Broadcasts
January 19 2011: Head-Roc and the "Empower DC" Project, Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma and Dr. Manoj Abraham with Healing the Children on Radio Active Lunch

Poet Yuyutsu Sharma reading at Glenmere Lake, Warwick, New York

Yuyutsu Sharma

Someone Left a Pen, Yuyutsu Sharma

Liked on www.youtube.com

Poet Yuyutsu Sharma reading from his new book, Space Cake, Amsterdam and other Poems from Europe and America at Glenmere Lake, New York during his grand tour of North America.

Getting High (after hearing Yuyutsu Sharma on Nepal)

Getting High

(after hearing Yuyutsu Sharma on Nepal)

by Lorraine Conlin

He takes me to his world

an abode of snow melts

flows down

treeless steppes

cascades past seasons

rivers of morning rise

unveiling valleys of glacial flow

I inhale

mists of monsoon rains

of eternal spring

showering fields of forever

musk deer grazing

magnolia and mint

I exhale red rhododendron

slants of sunlight

clove, cumin and coriander

He takes me to this place

his temple, his shrine

the gist of his existence

with words

floating like dust motes

@Lorraine Conlin/2010

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti -- New Edition

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti


Collected by Shiva Dhakal
Adapted into English by Yuyutsu RD Sharma.
ISBN 81-8250-002-0 2009. Paper pp.125. Rs. 195.

Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti reveals the drama of primitive human mind enacted on Himal’s glacial heights.

The book is the result of Shiva Dhakal’s trek to Rolwaling and Khumbu. Creatively exploring the intricacy of human relationships, Shiva Dhakal offers a dazzling diadem of twelve folk tales.

Employing his master skill of story telling, unlike fashionable folklorists, Mr. Dhakal evokes the elemental events that determine the working of a primitive psyche.

The incidents of raping of an innocent girl by the man-eater Yeti, of the seduction of an intimate friend’s wife, the tempting of an incarnate Lama by a young Sherpa maiden, the Strategy of annihilating Yetis of the world, the birth of mountains out of guilty lovers, and the duel between the wind and the fog reveal the basic working pattern of a primitive mind.

To read the Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti is to know the hidden hunger of much misunderstood and glamorized Sherpa mind.

“The book is an excellent contribution to the Sherpa culture and Ethnology. Dhakal deserves congratulations on his arduous undertaking involving mountain trekking and his successful recapitulation of these tales in a very simple and clear-cut style …” – Dr. Murari P. Regmi

The Yeti:Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans

The Yeti. ISBN81-85693-57-9 2004. HardcovYetuer pp.113 Rs.250 IndianThe Yeti:Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans

The Yeti:Spirit of Himalayan Forest Shamans

by Dr. Larry G. Peters

Format :

Hardcover

ISBN-10 :

8185693579

Dr. Larry G. Peters is a world-renowned scholar and initiated Shaman in the Tibetan tradition. The book takes a fresh look at the yeti, the elusive snowman of the Himalayas. Peters here aspires to establish the yeti as the spirit of the Himalayan Forest Shamans. In his view, Evolution-minded researchers’ hunt for ‘missing-link’ led to a scientific dead-end and the yeti who became associated with research fell into disrepute as a superstitious wed to spurious theory. Consequently, the yeti academically became “an abominable snowman”.

Yeti is a living, current, popular mythology and a folkloric treasure whose origin the present book seeks to explore. Tracing its history to the pre-Buddhist, fierce spirit of Nature-mountain goddess and forest wild men of Bonpo shamanism in Tibet, Dr. Peters uncovers the hidden chapters of human history, evaluating the cross-cultural implications of religious practices, myths rituals, legends and scriptures.

The Yeti, to sum up, it a sparkling piece of original research written with an objective to rehabilitate interest in the study of yeti as a spiritual teacher and initiator of shamans.

Yuyu Special Guest at Poets of the Lorain County Event,Ohio

Reader Response--"At Forty You Die" by Yuyutu Sharma

"Yuyutsu RD Sharma. I had the pleasure of meeting him just in time, or something, the other night. In his work, he actively loves the gray between creation and destruction... the inevitable connection between sullied and unsullied Earth. Says I. Ha ha. Anyway. I was sulking and marveling at the same time, because I just don't want to die too soon, and he shared this."

Darlene Costello

"Your poem "At 40 You Die" ... helped me cry right."

Darlene Costello

"At Forty You Die"

Yuyutu Sharma

At forty two moons start throbbing

like bright eyes of your own children.

At forty two people you dream of

most frequently, two people who dreamt

of you and your eyes all their lives.

At forty in the early

dawn of your desperate decades

you start dreaming of your mother first.

She comes limping

like a wounded cockroach

from the other world

to clasp your sweaty palms

to kiss your eyebrows

withering under the blind stare

of a merciless sun,

to complains of the tulips that faded

under the blind stare of a merciless sun.

At forty you dream

of your father frequently,

a Buddha or an exhausted god,

a lion repentant for a lifetime,

a familiar stranger who made you

what you are in your dreams

and left you alone,

bleeding on the mule-paths of life.

At forty you see him everywhere,

in the creases of your skin,

in the puffed-out eyelids,

in the fluffy temples

where two crescent moons appear,

silvery and savage like ensuing life’s itinerary.

At forty he lusts in the crazed

fields of your blood vessels.

He escorts you to

the open spaces of his cherished riverbanks

pavilions of tantric priests

ashrams of ascetics before bonfires of annihilation.

He guides you to the bog lands

of his fond memories where once

his beloved woman lived and

then left him, one by one,

“Forgot the old chums, fell in the trap of new ones”

.

She comes limping

like a wounded cockroach

from the other world

to clasp your sweaty palms

to kiss your eyebrows

withering under the blind stare

of a merciless sun

to complain of the tulips that faded

under the blind stare of a merciless sun.

At forty your own woman's mouth

starts smelling of deceit,

a Bhairab's mask,

a masculine leer along

the canyons of her body.

At forty you start

questioning questions

and decide to die

like one dies in poetry or books.

Or proverbs that proved false--

People above forty should be shot dead.

You resolve what you didn't all life long--

to reach out to touch

the rim of unheard horizons

elusive Shangri-la from where no return

to exquisite valleys of life is possible.

But your children's eyes start

shining like burning stars

along the moons of your secret lusts.

At forty you die to be born again

and again in the theatre of your children's eyes

POESÍA: POETAS PARA EL SIGLO XXI Editor: Fernando Sabido Sánchez:

POESÍA: POETAS PARA EL SIGLO XXI Editor: Fernando Sabido Sánchez: 2670.-.

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Yuyutsu RD Sharma(NEPAL)-Biografía

Yuyutsu RD Sharma es uno de los poetas asiáticos en lengua inglesa más prestigiosos y con más repercusión internacional. De origen nepalí, nació en Nakodar (Punjab) y estudió literatura en la Universidad de Rajastán, Jaipur, donde participó activamente en círculos literarios y teatrales. Ha sido profesor en la Universidad del Punjab y en Tribhuwan University, Katmandú. Ha impartido cursos de escritura creativa y traducción en Queen’s University, Belfast, Universidad de Ottawa, Instituto del Sur de Asia y en la Universidad de Heidelberg (Alemania).
Ha viajado por todo el mundo, participando en numerosas lecturas poéticas en varios países de Asia, Europa y América. Se le han concedido prestigiosas becas de creación literaria como las de la Fundación Rockefeller, la Fundación Trubar de Eslovenia y el Instituto para la traducción de Literatura Hebrea.
Tiene publicados ocho libros de poesía, entre los que se encuentran: Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (Howling Dog Press, Colorado, 2009), Annapurna Poems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008), Everest Failures (White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, 2008) www.WayToEverest.de: A photographic and Poetic Journey to the Foot of Everest, (Epsilonmedia, Germany, 2006) en colaboración con el fotógrafo alemán Andreas Stimm y una traducción del poeta irlandés Cathal O’ Searcaigh al nepalí.
Ha traducido y editado varias antologías de poesía nepalí contemporánea al inglés y es fundador del movimiento Kathya Kayakalpa (Metamorfosis) en la poesía nepalí actual. Su libro Roaring Recital, cinco poetas nepalíes traducidos al inglés obtuvo una nominación al mejor libro de Asia en 2001.
Parte de su obra ha sido traducida al alemán, francés, italiano, español, hebreo y neerlandés y publicada en prestigiosas revistas internacionales de literatura. Es editor de Pratik, una revista de escritura contemporánea, y es columnista habitual en los periódicos nepalíes The Himalayan Times y The Kathmandu Post. Acaba de escribir su primera novela.
www.yuyutsu.de
http://yuyutsurdsharma.blogspot.com/



POEMAS (Traducciones de Verónica Aranda)


DESTINO

Las cigarras del monzón,
su canto estridente…
El perro viejo
dormitando junto a un porteador
con bocio y ebrio acurrucado
bajo la enorme campana de latón
de la pagoda de un templo
sólo se despertaría
si el puntapié de algún gorila
aplastara su pata que chorrea pus.

FRACASOS

En el suelo enlodado del porche
de una pequeña choza entre niebla

junto a las márgenes
de los arroyos embravecidos, pelando

la piel
de las mazorcas de maíz,

entre el montón esponjoso
se sienta una madre de la montañas

con un hijo
llorando en su regazo.

No tiene más
que un beso,

un beso sucio,
sensiblero y fétido

para acallar
los gemidos de ese gatito.

LA DEMOCRACIA

La lucha del sol por deslumbrar
a través de cielos turbios de destinos fracasados.

Los callejones nebulosos
de la ciudad de los escorpiones parecen resbaladizos,

oscuros por el apagón
de una pesadilla de treinta años,

brillantes
por el resplandor trémulo de heridas recientes.

Muchachas a la moda con ojos en forma de pez
se asoman a angustiosas ventanas de madera.

En la tienda local de alcohol
un poeta se sienta febril al fresco

en un chirriante banco de acero,
su rostro enterrado en la democracia de sus pálidas manos.

Sus piernas frágiles tiemblan
por el horror de obscenos eslogan de gastados Hitlers.

En las carnicerías con tejado de hojalata
sordas carniceras limpian los intestinos

de los búfalos del pasado,
un vago ritual de las espinas resucitadas de la memoria.

En los callejones resbaladizos de Asan
o Bhotahitee la fetidez de verduras podridas

asfixia a las deidades atrapadas
en los nichos de santuarios en ruinas.

Las vacas que deambulan mueven
sus colas infestadas de boñigas

para bendecir
a los expertos en derechos humanos llegados de Occidente.

Las palomas arrojan suciedad
en sus brillantes cabelleras para condenar sus almas piadosas,

un equilibrio de las escalas de justicia.


Sólo estos mantras
poeta de los helados callejones, de la ciudad

del exaltado dragón del hambre
sordo ante los gritos indefensos
de un recién nacido
al que están troceando

los extraños magos
de una ciega aristocracia: la democracia.

GOPAL PRASAD RIMAL

Un poeta saca un sol fresco
del útero oscuro, ulceroso de la oligarquía.

Yo te saludo, poeta,
te saludo.

Saludo tu movimiento
que tañe en las campanas de latón de la ortodoxia

por los umbrales de la historia,
y conduce a un amanecer de democracia.

Yo te saludo, poeta,
saludo tu desilusión

con los lobos del cambio
y los falsos pretendientes de la democracia

que arrancaron una costilla
de tu cuerpo baldado

para alejar tus ojos
de las tormentas del cambio

y hacerte
retozar como un bufón

con las prostitutas de la anarquía
en el castillo conspiratorio de la mugre.

Saludo tu desencanto
hacia los padres tartamudos de la nación

que te dejaron lisiado y solo
para que enloquecieras

en las calles ciegas
de la capital del dragón exaltado, devorada por las termitas.

Saludo tu locura, poeta,
la saludo.

Saludo tu completo rechazo
de una pose de hipocresía.

Tus visitas morbosas
al templo de Mahakaal

para pronunciar una oración
que encendiera una pagoda de poemas.

Tu intenso despliegue
del khukri, esperando traer otra revolución.

Tu deseo
de donar semen para úteros sanos.

Saludo tu surgimiento
de los desechos de la historia para contarnos:

Llega un Día
pero una vez en una Época.

RAJASTÁN

A la sombra
frágil del arbusto

dos camellos
se sientan, rumiando,

echando
espumarajos

mientras observan
el blanco abrasador del cielo

ni un grano
de los Monzones.



Poemas extraídos del libro:
Yuyutsu Sharma, Poemas de los Himalayas

(Prólogo, selección y traducción de Verónica Aranda).

Córdoba, Cosmopoética, 2010

ASTÁ