Just Released
Milarepa’s Bones, Helambu
33 New Poems
Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN-81-8250-032-X 2012 Hard pp.82
Formed by 20th century South Asian and North American poetry movements and himself a verbal renewer of his country’s literature, Yuyutsu indefatigably writes along rivers and paths, mountains, valleys and villages, verse after verse…
Dr. Christoph Emmrich ,
South and Southeast Asian Buddhism at the University of Toronto.
Garuda & Other Poems of Astral Plains
David B. Austell
ISBN-81-8250-038-9 2012 Hard pp.64
“From Garuda to Saluda (that is, from the Hindu man-bird deity to a tiny town in North Carolina), David Austell’s new collection explores recurring themes of masculine identities and human complexities with precision and grace. This poetic world is one of unerring attention to tight image and emotional nuance, with a sometimes terrifying undercurrent of recurrent meanings drawn from a wide range of cultural allusions, all shared by a guide whose capacious voice can contain both deep mysteries and no small dash of humor. Austell shows us the unforgettable feel of the club of young adolescent “He-men” on a quest for a secret stream; a southern woman looking back to the Dixieland of ambiguities of raced, gendered, and classed expectations; the dangerously aching erotics of the male gaze or the musical score. The final long poem “The Final Pitch on Olympus Mons” is an utter tour de force of baseball, poetics, science fiction, and a shiveringly unstable encounter with absolute Otherness. Not many volumes of poetry are real page-turners as well as perfect pitches: this one is.”
-Meg Harper
Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English, University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland
Inside Out, Upside Down, & Round and Round
Poems Selected & New
John J. Trause
ISBN-81-8250-049-4 2012 Paper pp.83
Dizzy from diving into John J. Trause’s new collection of surprising poems, I urge you to enter!
Let the title swirl and turn you into his wild array of inventions. Witty, ribald, arch, they tease and entice. They are smart poems. With eclectic topics, he applies a scholar’s encompassing mind and an artistic eye for colorful detail. Trause is not only a prosodic humorist, he is as ever a proficient scholar, and these poems prove his rigorous power. Note his classical and Biblical knowledge, the many languages at his command, and the contemporary scenes he pulls into focus—even on a mocking tour of north NJ towns! These poems take a reader traveling through many lands of rhyme and reason; hurry to see what Trause finds “Outside the Zoo” in the poem of that title, enjoy his complex vocabulary, laugh with his riffs. Don’t let the abstruse words retain you from the lively banter. Run and climb. I tried to swim through, but found myself riding the waves. These poems will entertain you, make you study, make you gasp. You may turn round and read again, they will make you a little wiser than before John J. Trause took hold.
Madeline Tiger, author of From the Viewing Stand
All The Way From Kathmandu
Selected Jazz Poems
John Clarke
ISBN-81-8250-042-7 2012 Paper pp.82
Careful how you hold this book. It might burn.
But beautifully.
With life.
And with love.
–Billy Jenkins
“Jazz poetry that will give you wings”
-Dean Stalham Director, ‘Artsaveslives’
“Jazzman john does with words what Coltrane did with the horn”
-Geoff Parker,’ Brixtongue’
Journey Though India and Nepal : Poems/Pictures
Robert Scotto & Lu Wu
ISBN-81-8250-045-1 2012 Hard pp.82
The pillow book result of Robert and Lu Wu’s passage to Hindustan and the Himalayas.
Like his master Whitman, Scotto describes ‘as accurately as possible what he saw and reflect as honestly as I was able to on what it meant.’ And Lu weaves her carpet of lurid colors that can induce you to pack up and head for a very long journey. A stunning mine of riches, the book shows results of crossing borders to become bridges.
Incident on the Orient
Poems by George Wallace
ISBN-81-8250-044-3 2012 Paper pp.63
“An exciting and youthful journey of poems and adventures, we follow with enthusiasm, this young man’s journey to India. To travel to India is to search for yourself. For it is ever true that the journey leads to where you have always been”
-Donavan Leitch
No Child More Perfect & Other Poems
Christi Shannon Kline
ISBN-81-8250-039-7 2012 Paper pp.82
Watch out! Christi Shannon Kline’s poems are original. She speaks her mind: ordinary and desperate,
frank and unfaked and full of feeling. The poems sing, and we welcome their freshness.
–Marie Ponsot- poet, winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award
Things Missed in Exile
New Poems
E. Avi Frishman
ISBN-81-8250-039-7 2012 Paper pp. 52
TEN: The New Indian Poets
Anupama Raju, Rabindra K Swain, Malovika Pawar,
Soni Wadhwa, Rumjhum Biswas, Sudeep Sen, Nabanita Kanungo,
Yuyutsu Sharma, Robin S Ngangom, Kympham Sing Nongkynrih
Edited by Jayanta Mahaparta and Yuyutsu Sharma
New books
Libraries, Information Centers & Information Professionalism in Nepal
Madhusudan Karki
ISBN-81-8250-037-0 2012 Hard pp. 373 Rs. 895
Little Creek & Other Poems
David Austell ISBN 81-8250- 031-1 2012 Hard pp.111
David Austell's Little Creek & Other Poems
Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems
Diane Hamilton
ISBN – 81-8250-033-8 2011 Paper Rs. 395
Lizard Licking, Donegal & Other Poems Diane Hamilton ISBN – 81-8250-033-8 2011 Paper Rs. 395
Baghdad, February 1991 & Other Poems
Ronny Someck
A Bilingual Nepali /English Edition
Translated into Nepali by Yuyutsu RD Sharma
ISBN 81-8250- 018-4 2010 Hard pp.200 Rs. 250
Baghdad, February 1991 & Other Poems by Ronny Someck
New books by Yuyutsu Sharma
Annapurnas and Stains of Blood:
Life Travels and Writing on a Page of Snow
ISBN81-8250-012-5 2010 Rs. 395 Non-Fiction Hard
Space Cake, Amsterdam,
& Other Poems from Europe and America
(Howling Dog Press, Colorado, 2009)
Poemes De L’Himalaya
by Yuyutsu R. D. Sharma
Published by L’Harmattan, Paris
http://editions-harmattan.fr/
OTHER NEW TITLES:
The Pokhara Valley
A Traveler’s Guide
LB Thapa
ISBN 81-8250- 019-2 2009 Hard pp.45 Rs. 495
This is first comprehensive guide to most exotic valley of lakes in Western Nepal. Nepalese Scholar and journalist, LB Thapa for the first time brings to the readers’ attention the great cultural legacy of the landscape and people living in it. Full of first hand information about tours and sightseeing, the book offers a detailed information lodging and cuisine, fairs and festival, best walks and brief treks, paragliding and other outdoor sports.
A handy book offers an up-to-date account of unique valley beneath the shadow of Annapurnas.
Ode to Dreams
Larry Peters
ISBN 81-8250- 024-9 2009 Hard pp.45 Rs. 150
This is Dr. Peters’ favorite book. A surreal world conjured through shamanic visions raising several delicate questions about life and death and world beyond. Written in tradition of Asian mystics, this is a powerful ode to dreams that brings alive primordial drama of lust and longing, and weaves an extraordinary tapestry of sacred and profane, mundane and virtual reality.
Student, Politics & Democracy in Nepal, 1940-2008
by Meena Ojha
ISBN 81-8250- 012-5 2011 Hard pp.431 Rs. 595
Meena Ojha is a well known Nepalese political analyst. The book is a historical political research of the current face of fast changing Nepalese polity. Up-to-date and authentic, empirical and original, the book looks at the turbulent chapters of Nepalese history from a fresh angle. A fine fusion of journalism and contemporary history, Ojha examines the role of student movements in shaping the fate and future of contemporary Nepal, and asks several formidable questions — What may be the causes of student movements? Why do only students initiate movement and remain at the forefront? What are the causes, and results of the movements? Where and who make the plans and programs of the movements?” Based on first hand research including interviews of over a hundred student leaders, posters, booklets, leaflets, bulletins and several materials provided by different student organizations, the book opens new doors to understand the ongoing political commotion that at the moment seems to draw worldwide attention.
Safa Tempo: Poems New and Selected
Bhuwan Thapaliya
ISBN 81-8250- 036-2 2011 Paper pp.60 Rs. 150
Safa Tempo is a stunning ode to love and life in the Himalayas. Passionate and powerful, the collection is a young poet’s outcry of passionate protest in the face of fast changing nation. These poems are a treasure to be preserved and shared in moments of sorrow, stress and solitude. Here the readers will find afresh voice possessing sensuous charm reminiscent of the Romantics.
