"First National Yoga escrito por Mike Ostrov gana al lector de primera pasada, seduce como diario escrito con los sentidos en vez de palabras; sus expresiones huelen y saben, no se leen. Un diario que relata lo incongruente que es la vida pero que a su vez, el autor, encuentra un punto medio para vivirla. Aquí las breves expresiones te invitan a grandes cuestionamientos y convierten tu pensamiento en tablero de investigación. Encima de todo, que me fascina, hace referencia a una gran inspiración: Kim Shattuck; y con eso lo termino, de oler y probar, con una segunda bala al corazón," Zuania Colón Torres, Coordinadora en el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña y artista musical.
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The title First National Yoga suggests a program designed by bankers and self-care app developers, but the poems within move with genuine intention. Written during a period of personal transition that led directly into the collective upheaval of the pandemic, these poems reach for balance amid isolation and uncertainty. This started as a haiku project — a practice, like yoga, rooted in the power of observation and experience — but the form is used loosely here. The collection and section titles may mock the co-opting of such sacred forms, but First National Yoga uses these imperfect, popular versions – your overworked elementary school teacher introducing you to the haiku, overhearing your roommate’s yoga video buffer under poor Wi-Fi – to regard our most intimate stillness and mutual motion.
This debut volume of poetry, accompanied by art from Jeremy Ray (Atlanta, Georgia) collects contemporary haikus by Gainesville, Florida, writer Mike Ostrov. Each number of the first run of 75 was designed, printed, cut, assembled, binded, and glued by Gustavo Rivera, SVPRESS' Director of Praxis, in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico; full color printing on high quality, literary-cream-colored interiors and glossy white covers.
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