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Iris Litt
Jacqueline Gens
Janine Pommy Vega
Laynie Browne
Lily Warren
Louise Landes Levi
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Rosalyn Z. Clark
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Shiv MIrabito
SHIV MIRABITO
 

No. of pages: 24
No. of copies: 333
Year of publication: 1998

Welcome to Freaksville
by Shiv MIrabito
Volume I
 

seven foot Mullen
Saguaros of the Northeast
fuzzy yellow spires

fluffy white clouds passing thru the clear blue sky
they will soon be gone

About the author

Shiv Mirabito is an Anthropologist, Artist, Poet, Buddist-Hindu Freak who resides in Woodstock, N.Y. and sometimes in Kathmandu


No. of pages: 22
No. of copies: 250
Year of publication: 2005

Welcome to Freaksville
by Shiv MIrabito
Volume II
 

Fordword by
Edward Sanders, Woodstock, NY

Welcome to Shiv
When I first met him, Shiv Mirabito seemed shy about his poetry,
writing it now and then on long yellow note pads. He was part of a
poetry workshop I conducted in early 1997 on Saturday mornings in
the offices of the Woodstock Journal on Tannery Brook Road.
He had a flair for images observed in nature, and I knew he was
interested in Hindu and Tibetan religions.That year a bunch of his
friends encouraged him to get beyond his shyness, so that during the
following months he gathered together a short sequence of his works
for a chapbook. I learned that most years Shiv would spend several
months in the winter in India and Nepal, and in 1998 he began
publishing a series of chapbooks and poetry anthologies at a press in
Kathmandu.
As for “Welcome to Freaksville,” it begins with a series of haiku-like
three-liners on themes from nature, and then proceeds to poems of
self analysis and self-encouragement, poems celebrating his
friendships, and peripatetic poems of seeking and roaming. The
tension between roaming and resting lie at the heart of these 20 poems.
Finally, his poems speak of infinity and karma, as the one which ends:
a blackened skull has no name
Before that, “Welcome to Freaksville: Poems from Woodstock and
Kathmandu.”


No. of pages: 20
No. of copies: 24
Year of publication: 2004

Shiv's Kumbh Mela
Survival Guide

by Shiv MIrabito
 

FEATURED CONTENTS

Disclaimer

Mela intro
Travel
Up north
Non-judgement
Eat & sleep
Don't bring
What if I get sick?
Temple protocol
Baba etiquette
Smoking
Photography
See you there
Glossary
Acknowledgements

No. of pages: 22
No. of copies: 300
Year of publication: 2004

Transcendental Tyger
poem from Woodstock to Kathmandu

by Shiv MIrabito
 

FEATURED CONTENTS

Homage to Ganesh

One night in Goa
One night on a train in India
Blue Bottle
Woodstock Sunday
Autumn Understanding
On All These Cold Night To Come
Real Men
Refuge
Death of the Underground
On the Echoing Green
On Top of Shivapuri
Everyday Auspicious Procession
Sleeping Around
Rolling Thunder
 
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