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Who sees all that is seen? Who breathes? Who talks and who becomes silent? Am I my name? Am I what society made me? Am I my identity? Do I cease to exist when my name and identity are gone? Who remains even when they no longer are? The poems in this anthology celebrate two tools that help weed out the recurring junk of name and identity -- awareness and death. The tool of death sharpens the tool of awareness. Like rain settles the contaminants suspended in the air, a periodic shower of remembering our impermanence washes away the pollutants dirtying our mind and gives uninterrupted access to pure awareness, in which everything is. The hundred poems in this collection are hymns to those two tools -- the tool of remembering our mortal nature and the tool of watching the nature of our awareness.

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In A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death, Mohan Joshi wrestles with what it is to be alive, what it is to face death. A beautiful collection-on that invites us, too, to ""wake up ... as a new flower."" - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, MA in English Language & Linguistics (UW-Madison), author of 13 collections of poetry; winner of several poetry prizes This poignant collection takes the readers on a sanctified journey in understanding life and death. - Nabin K Chhetri, M.St in Creative Writing (Oxford University), M.Litt in The Novel (University of Aberdeen), Scottish-Nepalese poet and writer; recipient of multiple awards Every poem is so tremendous and so touching and piercing, like a sharp arrow. Poet Joshi is always optimistic; his poems bear the witness of a person gifted with the unique faculty of imagination required of a creative artist. - Govinda Raj Bhattarai, PhD, retired professor of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu; novelist; essayist; literary critic; linguist and translation consultant Mohan Joshi's A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death is a window into his life as a matured and awakened man. - Deepak Shimkhada, PhD, Nepalese-American Educator; professor of Asian Art and Religion, Claremont, California; artist; art historian; author The poems, in simple language through spruce images, manifest the poet's quest to merge with all and be part of the cosmos. - Dr. DC Chambial, Indian English poet and critic; editor of Poetcrit; recipient of several awards and honors Full of poetic insights and epiphanic illuminations. - Sanjeev Uprety, PhD, writer, theatre actor and professor of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu It is a silent joy to read these poems and feel a sense of calmness and serenity. - Shreedhar Lohani, PhD, former professor of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu; writer; critic; poet I enjoy reading Dr. Joshi's profound expressions. A man of science with aesthetic zeal is the poet to read. - Arun Gupto, PhD, professor of English, IACER, Pokhara University, Kathmandu; author Dr. Mohan Joshi's A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death are pure songs of the soul as whispered effortlessly during day-to-day living. - Professor Tulasi Diwasa, folklore expert; poet; author of multiple books on culture, folklore, and poetry Prof. Joshi's moving and powerful poems evoke deep emotions and contemplation. I can see the book changing the mind of many people on how we look at life and death. - Basant Pant, MD, PhD neurosurgeon

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Mohan P. Joshi, MD, MSc, MBBS, has over two decades of experience supporting 21 low- and middle-income countries in the technical implementation of antimicrobial resistance containment and other pharmaceutical systems strengthening activities through four U.S. Agency for International Development-funded global programs implemented by Management Sciences for Health in the United States. Before joining Management Sciences for Health, Dr. Joshi worked at Tribhuvan University's Institute of Medicine and Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Nepal for nearly 20 years in various capacities, including as academic assistant dean and professor and head of clinical pharmacology. Dr. Joshi published a book of Nepali poems, Kahaan Chha Thaaun (Where Is the Place) in 2011 and was the lyricist for a Nepali audio album by the same name released in 2012.

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