Zayra Yves: Reviews
"Whether she speaks of love and passion, or pain and the mystery behind all human experience (for Zayra is a mystic in the truest sense of the word), her words will speak to a place deep inside of you that, once called, awakens—and once awakened, changes you forever.
I once told my students that Zayra’s poetry would make their toes curl. I should have said that it would make their souls curl."
- Bill Harris - Spiritual Teacher, Centerpointe Research Institute (www.centerpointe.com) & one of the teachers featured in The Secret.
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"In the words of the infamous Marty Bales, "My compelling vestment in her expressions came with her very first and very last words. Everything else in between shook my perfect instability.” I can say the same thing without hesitation about Zayra Yves’ poetry & spoken word. It falls like Spring rain in a season of bloom. Zayra’s flower life is a burst of brilliance, filled with fragrance in anticipation of an ever-changing and colorful beauty. Both readers and listeners will find a sense of all completed seasons in Zayra’s work, but they’ll also catch the aromatic nuances as fine as the kaleidoscope she wields."
Ed Balldinger of Mood Grove (www.moodgroove.com)
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Zayra Yves poems are often spiritual without being religious, and she writes boldly and unflinchingly about subjects which are often controversial and sometimes painful. She values sincerity and openness and those values are obvious in her writing. In the time I've known her, I've come to value Zayra as much for her sensitivity as for her amazing writing. I hope that everyone who sees this will have already read her book and be as cognizant as I am of the high quality with which Zayra endows everything she does.
- Jim Dunlap - author published in over 90 publications & associate editor of Alchemy Cove
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"The work of Zayra Yves is earthy, mystical, flowing - like a river that moves through the universe of stars. In its course, it reveals the human suffering that cries from the abyss, the majestic cathedral of the ceremonial soul, the erotic body of light, the undeniable presence of the muse, the great hope for a more expansive state of compassion, and the rapture of total abandonment of love.
Empty as Nirvana hides nothing. This most recent book is a powerful, evocative, and beautiful collection of pure poetry by the immensely talented Zayra Yves."
- Stefano Resta - filmmaker, artist and poet (www.stefanoresta.com)
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"Zayra Yves is a passion-filled force embracing both her human desires as well as the divine essence. Empty as Nirvana has been compiled from both new material and previously published poems that have been included in magazines, journals, audio recordings, radio broadcasts, and other print publications. These poems reveal the human suffering that cries from the abyss, the erotic body of light, the undeniable presence of the muse, the great hope for a more expansive state of compassion, and the rapture of total abandonment to love."
- Brian Douthit - author of Perfectly Said, When Words Become Art
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"Throughout each poem in this book are moments when the poem speaks without thinking, tracing the lineaments of desire with blind, hypnotic eyes. Summoned by the poet's passion, and speaking to an imaginary other, one who lures us into the precincts of emptiness and mysterious potential, Zayra Yves is a guide, through self-chaos and beyond."
- Michael Hannon - author of Trusting Oblivion
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"Zayra Yves is a modern-day mystic. Innovative, passionate, curious, ever so aware, her poems take the reader from the mundane to the majestic, her work resonating with Spirit and the spirit of truth. To read her is to be enriched, mind, body, and soul. In short, Zayra Yves is a light to the world. Indeed, there is clarity in abundance whereas this visionary flies. And the journey has only just begun."
- Richard Doiron - author of over 12 books of poetry