Born in 1936, Durga Lal Shrestha is one of Nepal’s leading poets and lyricists. The Blossoms of Sixty-Four Sunsets is a dual language collection of poems translated from Nepal Bhasa by David Hargreaves, with R. Manandhar, Daya Shakya, Rajendra Shrestha, and in collaboration with the author himself. In these poems, readers will find a deeply personal poetic vision emerging out of dialogues with the setting sun.

But English readers take note. These poems are not simple sound bites from the new-age section of your local bookstore; these are masterfully crafted poems: passionate, rhythmic, imagistic and enigmatic.