Announcing the release of Fourth Edition of Yuyutsu Sharma​'s book, Annapurna Poems....

Annapurna Poems: Poems Selected and New Paperback – 2017

by Yuyutsu RD Sharma (Author)

• Paperback 
  $19.991 New from $19.99

  Publisher: NiralaPublications (2017) ISBN-10: 8182500923 ISBN-13: 978-8182500921

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/8182500923

This is the fourth edition of 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

Last poem from Annapurna Poems: Fourth Edition being released next week

Silence

The moment I enter the Valley, nausea thrashes my well-being. A chill seeps into my bones and I close my eyes. Near Annapurna glacials, I had remained quite cosy, next to a warm hearth. Right away, I regret my return to the slum of human destiny, an ashtray of our shattered dreams.

At last, I open my eyes to see Buddha’s kingdom suffering like a snail. Where are the villages of huge brass bells? What fumes have filled the spacious squares of rituals? What vehicles have trampled fields of fragrance?

Overnight, a demon has sucked the fragrances of this once an exhilarating valley, leaving it deserted —  wrinkled and crumpled sheet of a newspaper.

In a fraction of a second, its century of silences has been shattered eternally. Without a regret or guilt.

I open my eyes to enter this labyrinth of nightmares, nonplussed that the floral fields I celebrated in my dreams never actually existed.

I open my eyes to discover that the first casualty of this expansion, silence. A cadence of a melody I’d carried like a sacred song all these years, a nucleus of my water wells. Has it been unscrupulously misplaced and forgotten in the schemes of the cities?

Awestruck, I feel all these days and weeks, I’d remained at ease when I was alone on the mule paths. But the moment I entered the city, I lost them all, syllables of the secret song that I hummed all these times.

It’s in the cities that I’ve spent the saddest moments of my life.

Yuyutsu Sharma’s Upcoming Reading Tour 2017: New York, Massachusetts & California

http://niralapublications.com/yuyutsu-sharmas-upcoming-reading-tour-2017-part-two-new-york-massachusetts-california/

October 10, 2017

Saturday, Oct 21, at 6 pm to 9 pm Brooklyn Launch of Yuyutsu Sharma’s Eternal Snow and A Workshop with the Himalayan Poet, Hosted by Yoga Sole, Windsor Terrace Brooklyn – 254 Windsor Place – Brooklyn, NY 11215 Tel: 718.541.1382 , Reading$ 10pp  Workshop $25pp Reading included) www.yogasole.com Host : Evalena Leedy evalena@yogasole.com

Monday, Oct 23, at 7:00 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading at Boston Launch of Eternal Snow with Timothy Gager at Out of the Blue Gallery,  in the Stone Soup Poetry Series, at  541 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. Host: Chad Parenteau https://outoftheblueartgallery.com/

Saturday, November 11 at 1:00 pm until 2.30 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading and workshop Berkeley Public Library, Hosted by Berkeley Public Library,  2090 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA  Workshop at 10.00 am to 12 pm Host: Isobel Schneider, ischneider@cityofberkeley.info,  https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/ (Details to be confirmed soon)

Monday, November 13, at 7 pm until 9 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading as Feature Poetat Poetry Express Berkeley. Hosted by Poetry Express Berkeley, at Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Nearest Cross St. California, Host: Jim Barnard,  poetryexpress@gmail.com, www.poetryexpressed.com

Tuesday, November 14, at 6:30 pm, Yuyutsu Sharma reading at The Long Island Launch of Eternal Snow,  Port Jefferson Free Library, 631 473-0022 100 Thompson Street Port Jefferson, NY, 11777, 631-473-0022 Fax: 631-473-2903 info@portjefflibrary.org Hosted by Kat Lamberg

Saturday, November 18, at 2 pm until 4 pm: Yuyutsu Sharma Reading with David Austell & Barbara Novack at Oceanside Library  30 Davison Ave, Oceanside, NY 11572, USA. Hosted Peter V. Dugan, 516-287-5239  http://www.oceansidelibrary.com/

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Yuyutsu Sharma/Andreas Stimm new photo-poetry book, Nepal: Sherpa & Co published in Germany

Yuyutsu Sharma's new poetry picture book with distinguished German photographer Andreas Stimm is out in German language edition...

Andreas' colour photos for the first time...

http://www.sherpaundco.de/

»Sherpa & Co.« Transport per pedes im Himalaja
Gedichte von Yuyutsu R.D. Sharma Fotografien und Text von Andreas Stimm
Wer trägt heute noch über sechzig Kilogramm auf dem Rücken ... ? Strommasten, Holzbalken, Satellitenschüssel, Bewehrungseisen, Hühner, Felsbrocken oder sogar Menschen? Der Sherpa! Wirklich der Sherpa? Wer sind die Träger im höchsten Gebirge der Erde, welche unsägliche Lasten auf den steilen Bergpfaden befördern? »Sherpa & Co.« erzählt in dreiundvierzig aktuellen Bildporträts von tragenden Nepalesen – quer durch den Himalaja. Aus dem Annapurnagebiet über das Manaslumassiv bis in die Höhen am Fuße des Everest!

 Das Buch: Nepal – »Sherpa & Co.« Transport per pedes im Himalaja
108 Seiten, Texte, 43 Fotografien und 3 Gedichte. Fadengebundener Inhalt mit Softcover aus Feinstkarton.
ISBN 978-3-98108-836-6 Preis 10,00 € zzgl. 1,00 € Porto.

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Gedruckt in Deutschland
ISBN 978-3-9810883-6-6
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Impressum: Epsilonmedia-Verlag ◊ Graf-Eberstein-Str. 57 ◊ 76199 Karlsruhe ◊ Deutschland ◊ www.epsilonmedia.de ◊ 0721-8643421 Nepal: www.Nepal-Trilogie.de  Fotografie: Hasselbald-XPan-Photographie

A Poem for Gandhi Jayanti Celebration --Yuyutsu Sharma

In the Absence of the Towers,

Gandhi

Yuyutsu Sharma

In absence

of Twin Towers, it was his statue

in Union Square

that became the solid shaft

of my light in the whirling city

of rattling trains, my memory key

to the numbered streets

of this mandala of steel, siren and seeds…

Larger than life figure

standing in the grassy triangle,

his feeble staff

from South Africa shining from

the glow of his compassion,

his eyes looking onto

the Green Market

stalls from Upstate,

Apple cider, wine, pretzels,

Organic cupcakes, Dead sea salt

and across the Square

Barnes and Noble store, Occupy Wall Street kids,

skating Latinos

and that black boy from Hudson River Valley

his chessboard

of Power Games spread on a small table

with an empty little chair

in the freezing cold

waiting for someone to come

and invest his precious coin or a dream

and spend some quality time

under the murky skies

likely to turn cobalt blue,

a flame of a feather

of a singing blue jay…

From A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8182500729

The Gandhi Statue at Union Square, New York

One of Yuyutsu Sharma's early Interviews shot in Amsterdam a decade ago

Yuyutsu Sharma to read in the Poetry Express Berkeley Reading Series in November

http://poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com/p/calendar.html

11/13/2017 Yuyutsu Sharma hosted by Jim
(Need a prompt? How do you explain your position on the planet? -- you don't have to use those words.)


http://poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com/p/calendar.html

Yuyutsu R D Sharma has  published nine poetry collections including, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems (Nirala, 2016).  He has translated Irish poet Cathal O’ Searcaigh and Hebrew poet Ronny Someck into Nepali.  Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma is his most recent publication.  Yuyutsu’s work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch.  Yuyutsu is the Visiting Poet at Columbia University, New York and has just returned from China where he had gone to read at Beijing International Book Fair.

Mules                           by Yuyutsu Sharma

On the great Tibetan

salt route they meet me again

old forsaken friends ...

On their faces

fatigue of a drunken sleep

their lives worn out,

their legs twisted, shaking

from carrying

illustrious flags of bleeding ascents.

Age long bells clinging

to them like festering wounds

beating notes

of a slavery modernism brings:

cartons of Iceberg, mineral water bottles,

solar heaters, Chinese tiles, tin cans, carom boards

sacks of rice

and iodized salt from the plains of Nepal Terai.

Butterflies of 

the terraced fields know their names.

Singing brooks tempests

of their breathless climbs.

Traffic alert

and time-tested, they climb

carrying

dreams of posh peacocks

pamphlets

of a secret religious war

filth

of an ecologist's sterile semen

entire kitchen

for a cocktail party at the base camp

defunct development

agenda of guilty donors

the West's weird visions

lusting for an instant purge.

Stone steps

of the mountains embossed

on their drugged brains,

like lines of aborted love

scratched

on the historic rocks of waterspouts.

Starry skies

of the dozing valleys know

the ache

of their secret sweat.

Sunny days

along the crystal rivers

taste

of their bleeding eyes.

Greatest fiction

of the struggling lives lost,

like real mules

clattering their hooves on the flagstones,

in circling

the cruel grandeur

of blood thirsty

mule paths around the glaciers of Annapurnas.

Upcoming Brooklyn Launch of Eternal Snow and Poetry Workshop with Yuyutsu Sharma at Yoga Sole, New York

Posted on September 29, 2017

Upcoming Brooklyn Launch of Eternal Snow and Poetry Workshop with Yuyutsu Sharma at Yoga Sole, New York

http://yogasole.com/eventskarma/yuyupoetry.html

Brooklyn Launch of

Yuyutsu Sharma’s Eternal Snow

& A Workshop with the Himalayan Poet

Saturday, Oct 21st

Workshop will be 6:00pm – 7:00pm $25pp

(includes reading)

Reading will be 7:30pm – 9:00pm $10pp

In the workshop

Yuyu will share his experiences and recite mantras and prayers to evoke the Himalayan world, especially, Devataatma, a Sanskrit word for the Himalayas, meaning the place where Soul of the God lives. After years of traveling the globe as an itinerant poet, Yuyutsu Sharma has earned the respect and admiration of thousands of people all over the world. Yuyu will unravel the secrets of Himalayan spirituality, inducing the participants to write fresh poetry likely to be published in the second volume of Eternal Snow.

The Reading will be the

The Brooklyn launch of

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

will take place.

Editors will share their experiences of editing this mammon anthology.

Select Poets include:

David Austell, Kathleen D Gallagher, Ruth Danon, Carolyn Wells, Catherine Gigante-Brown, Jack Tar, Nancy R Lange, Bill Wolak, Robert Scotto, Michael Graves, Bari Falise,  Christi Shannon Kline, Dan Szczesny, Jack Tar, Marion Palm, Eugene Hyon, Patricia Carragon,
Jan Garden Castro & others will read from the book.

'Eternal Snow', an anthology reflecting Nepal and the Himalayas: Nepal National Agency News

'Eternal Snow', an anthology reflecting Nepal and the Himalayas

2017-09-09 09:58 Kathmandu, Sept 9:

A 320 – page poetry anthology dedicated to Nepal, Nepali, Kathmandu, the Himalayan Range, rivers and the country's cultures has been published.

'Eternal Snow – A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty – Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma' explores the interaction, collisions, and intersections of 125 poets from four different continents.

The anthology – published by Nirala Publications in New Delhi and edited by American litterateurs David Austell of Colombia University, New York and Kathleen D Gallagher of the University of Akron Ohio – constitutes poems written by professors, scientists, social workers, photographers, priests, yoga teachers and stewardess among others.

They wrote the poems on Nepal following interactions with the Himalayan Poet during his world tours. Sharma said the anthology is a testament to the power of words to inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant places.

The anthology also contains poems penned by nearly a dozen Nepali poets' including Srijana Bhandari, Revegya Joshi, Bishwa Sigdel, Arun Budhathoki, Civa Bhusal, Gaurav Bhattarai, Dom Kafle and Varun Bajracharya. RSS