Tim Kahl on Yuyutsu Sharma's New York Poems

Yuyutsu Sharma's Blizzard in My Bones: New York Poems posits a pair of eyes up in their perch and looking down on the city of New York (and all of America) as they sweep across the pavement and finally settle on bit of muffin left on a table outside of a Starbuck's. They are poems that look and venture deeply into the mannerisms of a young continent even as they insinuate themselves into a bustling scene. They suspect the "wandering lunatics," "the basking brown seals," and the "ceramic cells of Super gurus" stand as markers on this New Found Land, as the eyes behind the poems continue consuming everything on the move.

Tim Kahl, poet, translator