Drapery of Time

Description

Drapery of Time brings humans, nature, and the entire sentient beings together with metaphysical, symbolic, and image savvy consciousness. The poet realizes that “this body” is “free from a million pasts” and gets the revelation that “my body is the pure ecstasy of now.” Soft melody and art of simplicity coalesce. Each poem opens a world of freedom, discoveries, and minuscule dramatic moments by means of diverse imageries, inventive expressions, and charming style.

 –Abhi Subedi, Poet

In Drapery of Time, Pushpa Raj Acharya stitches memory between adornment and obligation. Elements and landscapes braid into generations, breed resonant inheritances that collapse distance so that at any given moment, “the eyes looking at you are my mother’s eyes.” And yet, rupture and dislocation are part and parcel of the weave, severing and segmenting the world to produce pockets of estrangement that nonetheless fold themselves into the flow of things. Each of Acharya’s brief poems is a glance that brings colour and concretion to the eternity of a moment just before it passes, then traces its seams to show us how they are opening and closing all at once: “the crack//is the ever-widening mouth,” he tells us, but “the water separates […] before coming back together.”

–Ben Meyerson, Author of Seguiriyas

These poems are meant to be heard. The pauses are purposeful, the music is quiet but sure, and they weave city streets and myth. They reflect the sadhana Acharya as a poet has made on the medium during his transnational journey.

 – Shiva Rijal, Theatre Critic 

I read right through Pushpa’s well-wrought manuscript and “lingered in the particular moments and recognized mystical fragments of being.” I was moved, touched, compelled to savour each piece. It bears rereading. All along, I became aware of intuiting the beauty of the whole, dwelling in an oft neglected place of being, and lingering into the quiet realm.

–Pierrette Requier, Poet