Eternal Snow is a testament to the power of words to
inspire, encourage, and heal across vastly disparate cultures and distant
places. Over one hundred and twenty-five poets from around the world come
together in this anthology to explore their interactions, collisions, and
intersections with Yuyutsu Sharma, renowned Himalayan poet, journalist,
translator, and editor from Kathmandu, Nepal.The book is a clear example of the
new world itinerancy of the modern poet, and the global efficacy of poetry, in
that Yuyu’s world travels have touched the hearts and minds of thousands of
people who have heard his readings around the world and read his words in print
and online.
Not all the contributors are professional poets. Eternal
Snow also captures the poetic voices of a hairstylist, a
photographer, a Yoga teacher, a priest, a nurse, and a social scientist. In
these pages, a young poet in Kathmandu sees her late father in Yuyu’s face; a
social worker conjures the Goddess of the Children while serving the Bhutanese
refugees in California; a New York University professor ponders an Asian
challenge: setting her house on fire to become a real poet. The results
captured in these poems attest to the literary collisions which occur when
global poets meet.
Eternal Snow is a singular, remarkable, and moving work
of art.
“When you first meet Himalayan poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma, you
are taken immediately by his quiet passion and reverence for the art and
purpose of poetry, which, when taking the stage, he transforms into a voice
that crosses continents and soars like the snow in wind that
permeates “the solemn silence of sacred sounds” in his beloved Nepal.
Through his intercession, poems become chants of eternity. He has sought
the same in the poets represented in his anthology “Eternal Snow,” a hundred
voices who, like him, give reverence to the power of words in translating truth
through passion into a universal poetic of sacred sounds.”
James Ragan, Distinguished American Poet
& Author of Too Long a Solitude & The Hunger Wall among
others
