Saturday, January 8, 2011

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."

"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

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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



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

Monday, January 3, 2011

Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Diane Hamilton's book launch


hursday January 13 (from 6 – 7:30 p.m.) - Lower Branch Library, 2600 Bayshore Rd., Villas, NJ 08251. Tel: 609 886 8999. Yuyutsu Sharma and Diane Hamilton will be reading at the launch of Diane Hamilton’s ‘Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems’, published by Nirala Publications.

Yuyutsu Sharma to read at Diane Hamilton's book launch

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The Pleasures of Poetry for all ages

Event Type: Education Program
Date: 1/13/2011
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:30 PM
Description:
The Pleasures of Poetry for all Ages

The Cape May County Library welcomes the public to a series on poetry that is part readings, part lecture, and part workshop presented by Jack Walters. “The Pleasures of Poetry for all Ages” will be held on Thursdays from 6:00 to 7:30 beginning January 6, 2011 at the Lower Branch Library 2600 Bayshore Rd Villas, NJ. The works of two guest authors will be presented during this special program on January 16th.

“The Pleasures of Poetry for all Ages” will emphasize the simple enjoyment that can be derived from reading excerpts from the work of great poets of our language. The poems will be drawn mainly from the Norton collection. Class talk and participation are welcomed and encouraged, and those who would like to share their own poetry are also welcomed.

Jack Walters is a retired journalist who began his career as a copyboy on The Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1930s and subsequently became the first overseas reporter for Armed Forces Radio during WWII, a CBS correspondent during the Murrow years, bureau chief for Radio Free Europe and The Stars and Stripes, a stringer for AP, a reporter for NBC’s “Monitor,” an Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC’s “Eyewitness News,” and a teacher of journalism for the University of Minnesota, Brooklyn College, and The New School University. He lives in North Cape May, New Jersey.


Author Diane Hamilton will be at the class on the 13th of January to present her new book “Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems”. In 2000, Diane spent a month in County Donegal, where her father's cousins still live on the land where he was raised. Diane has wanted to be poet since she was five years old, when her father told her that poets were revered in Ireland and considered important members of society. Diane (Devennie) Hamilton was born in Philadelphia; she is a first-generation Irish-American whose father came to the U.S. from County Donegal. For 10 years she worked in an oil refinery in Philadelphia and later moved to New York City where she attended New York University and received a BFA in Film and TV in 1988. She subsequently received an MA in Public Librarianship from Rowan University and is currently Assistant Director of the Cape May County Library in Cape May Court House, N.J.

Yuyutsu Sharma will be the second author. 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 RD Sharma is a distinguished poet and translator. He has published eight poetry collections including, Space Cake, Amsterdam, & Other Poems from Europe and America, (Howling Dog Press, Colorado, 2009), and Annapurna Poems, (Nirala, New Delhi 2008),. He has translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry in English and launched a literary movement, Kathya Kayakalpa (Content Metamorphosis) in Nepali poetry. His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Amsterdam Weekly, Indian Literature, Irish Pages, Delo, Omega, Howling Dog Press, Exiled Ink, Iton77, Little Magazine, The Telegraph, Indian Express and Asiaweek.
The Library of Congress has nominated his recent book of Nepali translations entitled Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books International Perspectives.
Yuyutsu’s own work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He just published his nonfiction, Annapurnas & Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing a Page of Snow, (Nirala, 2010) and completed his first novel.
Currently, he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.




For more information please call 886-8999 or visit www.cmclibrary.org





Library: Lower Township Library
Location: Joseph Millman Room
Presenter: Jack Walters

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Nepal: A Poem for Yuyu by Lorraine Bouchard

Nepal

a poem for Yuyu


To dream

The impossible dream


Who is this poet

Where did he come from


Is he real

Part of the dream

Awake

Or dreaming


Does it matter


The forehead

Of the world


My vision


Outer

Inner

Other

Mother


Sadness surfaces

Recognizing the turquoise lake

Drop of ocean

Source climbing

To another destination


Never an end


Lorraine Bouchard, Montreal

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Five Forthcoming New York and New Jersey Readings

Yuyutsu Sharma

Five Forthcoming New York and New Jersey Readings

December 30, 2010

Himalayan Recitals

Yuyu reading from Nepal Trilogy

at Blue Mountain Gallery

(Private reading with limited seats

Write to yuyutsurd@yahoo.com if you intend to come)

Blue Mountain Gallery

530 West 25th Street 4th floor

New York NY 10001( between 10th and 11th Avenues )

646 486 4730

www.bluemountaingallery.org

January1, 2011

Yuyu reading at

The Alternative New Year's Day Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza

between 10 and 12 pm

We have Dark Matters: The arts that hold all us
disparate individuals together! When the city, the
country and the world splits into fighting fragments,
music, poetry, and dance keep us intact. Come
celebrate our unity when other factors attempt to drive
us apart at the 17th annual Alternative New Year's Day
Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza!

Free

The Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery
(Between Houston and Bleecker)
F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker

mail@bowerypoetry.com
212-614-0505

January 3, 2011

Yuyu featuring at

Saturn Series Poetry Reading

Nightingale Lounge
213 2nd Avenue, NYC @ 13th Street...

A short walk East of Union Square

$ 3 Fee

Every Monday night at 7:30 pm
Open Mike + 1 or 2 features
Sign up at 7 pm, Starts 7:30 to 9:30 Hosted by Su Polo & David Elsasser
http://www.supolo.com
http://www.supolo.com/Saturn_Series_Poetry.html

http://www.nightingalelounge.com


Saturday January 13

Lower Branch Library Hosts Poetry Readings

Yuyu Reading as Special Guest at

the Launch of Diane Hamilton’s

Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems

Lower Branch Library Hosts Poetry Readings

2600 Bayshore Rd., Villas

The Lower Cape Branch of the Cape May County Library invites the public to listen to the readings of poetry by two guest authors, Diane Hamilton and Yuyutsu Sharma. The program will be held on Thursday, January 13th from 6-7:30 p.m. during the workshop of “The Pleasures of Poetry for all Ages,” at the Lower Branch Library. The library is located at 2600 Bayshore Rd., Villas.

Author Diane Hamilton will read from her new book “Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems.” Hamilton was born in Philadelphia; she is a first-generation Irish-American whose father came to the U.S. from County Donegal. She attended New York University and received a BFA in Film and TV in 1988. Hamilton subsequently received an MA in Public Librarianship from Rowan University and is currently Assistant Director of the Cape May County Library in Cape May Court House, N.J.

Yuyutsu Sharma is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants and is a distinguished poet and translator. Sharma has published eight poetry collections and translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry into English. The Library of Congress nominated his recent book of Nepali translations “Roaring Recitals; Five Nepali Poets” as Best Book of the Year 2001 from Asia under the Program, A World of Books International Perspectives. Sharma works have been translated into seven different languages. He currently edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times.

For additional information please call 886-8999 or visit online at www.cmclibrary.org.

Saturday January 15

Yuyu Reading from Helambu book

Utopian Directions

7 West st.

Warwick N.Y..

6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Rajasthan Book Festival,Jaipur

Yuyutsu Sharma



Yuyutsu Sharma Had a chat with my friend, Ramanand Rathi.
Rajasthan Book festival currently being held in Jaipur. My greeting for success, Rathi!


Saturday, November 20, 2010

Yuyutsu Sharma launches "Little Creek & Other Poems" by American poet, David Austell -Part 1

Yuyutsu Sharma launches "Little Creek & Other Poems" by American poet, David Austel lPart 1
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Yuyutsu Sharma to read as Chief Guest at the launch David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems"

Yuyutsu Sharma to read as Chief Guest at the launch David B. Austell's "Little Creek & Other Poems"

Nirala Publications

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/94818

Bowery Poetry Cafe, New York

20 November, 2010 2 pm


308 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker)
New York, NY

David Austell's

Little Creek & Other Poems

Several fellow poets will read from the book, and there will be
live music and multi-media.

Little Creek is an astonishing anthology of poems from well-known American educator and poet, David B Austell

Containing the best of Austell's work written over a decade, Little Creek begins with memories of his childhood in a small American town set against the backdrop of Vietnam and other wars, reminiscent of Robert Lowell's Life Studies. The poems range from a meeting with a namesake in his afterlife, the morning star over a Protestant valley, a last day at Lake Baikal, the inheritance of wars thrust upon his nation and the people, an Indian student reminding him of the immense gulf between East and West, and finally to poems inspired by an imagined NASA conquest of Olympus Mons. Establishing Austell as a master craftsman, the 'roaring turbulence' of these poems will, for sure, leave his readers breathless.

For Austell is a poet who takes his vocation seriously, filling the gulfs and gaps between far-flung worlds with the incantations of his prayer-like poems. Vibrant from a contemporary American idiom, and voluptuous as 'her long legs and round hips', these poems are at the same time 'thin as a strand of DNA'.

"An impressive and wide-ranging intelligence permeates David Austell's ambitious first book of poems. Austell is a new poet with a seasoned soul, and the treasures of this collection are manifold and rich. He has a gift for narrative, a sharp eye for detail, and a passion for language.

Austell writes from both the head and the heart, and the poems that result are capacious, and substantial enough to reward rereading. Here is a bold, promising debut ."

Deborah Landau, Director, NYU Creative Writing Program, poet and author (Orchidelerium), New York University, United States

"David's poems are complex, yet concise and genuine, as in his 'A Ghost Among Ghosts', where he evokes the culture and history of Asheville, North Carolina with both knowledge and compassion."

Pierce Pettis, songwriter and recording artist (Compass Records), Nashville, Tennessee, United States

"Austell is equally at home waiting for the New York subway, on Mars, and under the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. To each setting he brings verve, compassion and imagination. He makes
the reader laugh, and he makes the reader care. Poems to be read and re-read.

Christopher Southgate, British editor and poet (Easing the Gravity Field), Dartmoor, United Kingdom

"Austell's is a world beyond heights, a passion not only for the earth but also for the spheres beyond it. Here's a voice that's steady and sanguine, earthly and sublime, contemporary and timeless, a voice rising above all polarities, singing songs of unattainable and imagined summits, fervent hymns in praise of globes nameless to the human imagination..."

Yuyutsu Sharma, poet (Space Cake Amsterdam; Annapurna Poems) and editor, Nirala Series

Friday, November 12, 2010

Yuyutsu's New York Reading and Nepal Trilogy launch



Yuyutsu's New York Reading and Nepal Trilogy launch

Wednesday, November 17 ·6:00pm - 8:00pm

LocationBowery Poetry Club , New York
308 Bowery (between Houston and Bleecker)
New York, NY



More Info
Yuyutsu reading from his new Nepal Trilogy and Space Cake, Amsterdam and Other Poems.
Yuyu's New Nepal Trilogy with over 70 poems and 700 photos with distinguished German photographer, Andreas Stimm will also be launched at the event.

Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma has published eight books and translated and edited several anthologies of contemporary Nepali poetry. His work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. One of his books of translations was nominated by the Library of Congress as Best Book of the Year from Asia. Yuyutsu has published seven previous poetry collections including Space CakeAmsterdam (Howling Dog Press, Berthoud, Colorado, 2009); Annapurna Poems (Nirala, New Delhi 2008); Everest Failures (White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, 2008); Way To Everest: A Photographic and Poetic Journey to the Foot of Everest (Epsilonmedia, Germany, 2006, with German photographer Andreas Stimm); and a translation of Irish poet Cathal O’ Searcaigh poetry in Nepali in a bilingual collection entitled Kathmandu: Poems, Selected and New, 2006. He is a recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, amongst others. His works have appeared in Poetry Review, Chanrdrabhaga, Sodobnost, Amsterdam Weekly, and several other magazines. Currently, he edits Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, and contributes literary columns to Nepal’s leading daily, The Himalayan Times and Newsfront Weekly. He recently published his first novel, Annapurnas, and a book of his prose writing on the ongoing political turbulence in Nepal, entitled Stains of Blood (Nirala Publications 2009).