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Africasoul (Hardcover)
Albert Russo, Eric Tessier, Jeremy Fraise
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Description A wonderful life turns into a nightmare for Joshua
Greene, 12, and his sister, Lucinda, 17, when their parents die in
a hotel fire in September, 1876. The family had worked happily
together to make their bakery a popular and thriving shop in
Kankakee, Illinois. When Josh and Lucinda
Photos, poems and the full NOVEL entitled AND THERE WAS DAVID-KANZA
based on my parents' lives in Africa and Europe, and eulogy
received from family and friends around the world, relating to my
beloved mother Sarah Russo during her long itinerary from her birth
in 1920 on the island of Rhodes (Greece), through Southern and
Central Africa, Italy and Belgium, where she lived, as well as
through her travels with my father to the five continents, up to
her last journey, on the 24th March 2013. She was a passionate
reader, in English, French, Italian and Spanish. A wonderful
pianist, she loved poetry above all. But more than anything else,
it was the purity of her soul we admired the most, with her
compassion, her generosity and her sense of humor, for she could be
very funny. Thinking of her, we now laugh, cry and laugh again.
website: www.albertrusso.eu
This is my fourth photobook on Rome, after 'Italia Nostra',
'Expressive Romans' and 'Seven living Splendors'; this book
includes poems and portraits of contemporary Roman personages.
Photos, prose and poems relating to my beloved mother Sarah Russo
during her long itinerary from her birth in 1920 on the island of
Rhodes (Greece), through Southern and Central Africa, Italy and
Belgium, where she lived, as well as through her travels with my
father around the world, and her last journey, on the 24th March
2013. She was a passionate reader, in English, French, Italian and
Spanish. A wonderful pianist, she loved poetry above all. But more
than anything else, it was the purity of her soul we admired the
most, with her compassion, her generosity and her sense of humor,
for she could be very funny. Thinking of her, we now laugh, cry and
laugh again.
Portraits of the author, alone or accompanied, taken in Africa, The
US, Europe, where he has resided, and around the world, in
different stages of his life, with pictures of his abode. Note: the
quality of the photos is variable, this book being primarily a
photographic history of the author rather than a professional
photobook. Some of these pictures are erotic, some, very kitch, and
others frankly ridiculous, like life itself at times. Albert Russo
who has published worldwide over 80 books of poetry, fiction and
photography, in both English and French, his two mother tongues
(Italian being his 'paternal' tongue; he also speaks Spanish and
German and still has notions of Swahili), is the recipient of many
awards, such as The New York Poetry Forum and Amelia (CA) awards,
The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British
Diversity Short Story Award, several Writer's Digest poetry and
fiction awards, and the Prix Colette, among others. His work has
been translated into a dozen languages in 25 countries, on the five
continents. He has garnered several prizes for his photography
books, Indie Excellence awards, among others. Some of his photos
have been exhibited at the prestigious Museum of Photography in
Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also a member of the 1996 jury for
the Neustadt International Prize for Literature which often leads
to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Author's website:
www.albertrusso.eu
Photos the author has taken throughout his life, shifting roots
from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe
- as well as during his travels around the world, spanning six
decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that mix scenes
and periods in wild card fashion.
Photos I have taken throughout my life, shifting roots from
continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - and
during my travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo
juxtapositions and quirky pictures that mix scenes and periods in
wild card fashion.
Book of poems accompanied with full-page (mainly) Color and some
B&W photographs which I took around the world (including the 3
continents where I have lived: Africa, America and Europe) during
various periods of my life. 132 pages View my other poetry, fiction
and photobooks on my website: www.albertrusso.eu Albert Russo who
has published worldwide over 75 books of poetry, fiction and
photography, in both English and French, his two mother tongues
(Italian being his 'paternal' tongue; he also speaks Spanish and
German and still has notions of Swahili), is the recipient of many
awards, such as The New York Poetry Forum and Amelia (CA) awards,
The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British
Diversity Short Story Award and the Prix Colette, among others. His
work has been translated into a dozen languages in 25 countries, on
the five continents. He has garnered several prizes for his
photography books, Indie Excellence awards, among others. Some of
his photos have been exhibited at the prestigious Museum of
Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also a member of the
1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature which
often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Other Awards: *Winner
of the 2008 AZsacra International Poetry Awardsponsored by the Taj
Mahal Review, India -cash prize of500 US$ - http: //cyberwit.net/ *
WINNERS OF THE 2009 BOOK AWARDS www.indieexcellence.com
IndieExcellence WINNER: Gay/Lesbian Non-Fiction: Gaytude: A poetic
journey around the world by Albert Russo and Adam Donaldson Powell
- www.albertrusso.eu Indie Excellence Photography Awards, Beverly
Hills, California, USA www.indieexcellence.com Finalist: City of
Lovers - City of Wonder, by Albert Russo www.xlibris.com -
978-1-4257-4357-4 Finalist: Body Glorious / Corps a corps, by
Albert Russo www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-2515-5 Finalist: New York
at Heart / New York au Coeur, by Albert Russowww.xlibris.com -
978-1-4257-4359-8 2011 NIEA SPONSOR'S CHOICE PRIZE WINNERS Indie
Excellence Photography Awards *Photography-General Winner: Mermaids
of the Baltic Sea Albert Russo - Blurb, Inc. Finalist: Eilat, Petra
& Tel Aviv Albert Russo - Blurb, Inc. Researchers and students
of literature may now access theAlbert Russo Literary Archives
inBrussels, Belgium, the capital of Belgium and of the European
Union: ARCHIVES & MUSEE DE LA LITTERATURE Bibliotheque Royale
Albert Ier Boulevard de l'Empereur 4 - B1000 Bruxelles - Belgique
http: //www.aml-cfwb.be/rechercher/catalogue search / rechercher:
Auteur / Author: Albert Russo The author's website:
www.albertrusso.eu
Black and white photos of Venice, Rome, Paris, New York, Tel Aviv,
Singapore and Jerusalem, that mix art, craft, architecture and
street scenes, with humorous juxtapositions, and in wild card
fashion
Fotoripples, vol.2: Photos I have taken throughout my life,
shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United
States and Europe - as well as during my travels around the world,
spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that
mix scenes and periods in wild card fashion.
The works of Albert Russo of the past 40 years, in both English and
French, reviewed and commented in these two languages, with essays
and photos by the author. excerpt of James Baldwin's letter: Dear
Albert Russo: l've read everything you sent me, and I like your
work very much indeed. It has a very gentle surface and a savage
under-tow - the fiction - and I applaud the wicked portrait of
Ionesco. You're a dangerous man. My friend, the Black woman
novelist, Toni Morrison, knows what you are talking about. l'm in
Paris on the 24th of this month and hope to see you. all the best,
James Baldwin. ALBERT RUSSO. PAINTING THE TOWER OF BABEL. Hyde
(Cheshire). New Hope International (UK) - in World Literature Today
(USA) Albert Russo's poetry deserves to be put before us in this
handy and attractive format. Each word is in its place, no other
word would do, and extracting component strings of words by
themselves do not constitute poetry to the extent they do within
their completed whole, rather like jewels without settings. Yet
there is nothing esoteric about his verse. To the contrary,
simplicity rules, and accessibility is immediate, although
successive readings do disclose certain cunning and bemused
conceits invisible at first. As proof, I can only quote one
exemplary poem in its entirety, Expectancy. there's a world at
peace and there's a world at war the frontiers between the two
shift and overlap like waves over the breakers at low tide and as
you watch the evening news you feel your heart skitter across the
water on the safe side or so you will yourself to believe but when
in the dead of night you switch off the bedlamp the rumblings under
your skin at first distant and familiar start sending out
portentous signals then somewhere around the solar plexus there's
an expectancy of pain searing as the alarm caused by misfired
thunder it shoots through the arteries to the cortex making the
flesh quiver in its wake and suddenly the echo of a reverberating
crackle turns your entire body into an electric web so tightly
packed you instinctively embrace all the destructive power of
mankind's folly This poem is not typical, since none of Russo's
are. His poems manifest a vast capacity for experimentation in form
and subject, surely a signpost of a poet still busily a-growing.
Highly recommended. L'oeuvre d'Albert Russo sur 40 ans, recensee en
francais et en anglais, avec ses propres essais, et ses photos.
James Baldwin: "J'aime votre ecriture, car dans un style police
vous exprimez des sentiments violents, faisant eclater des verites
terrifiantes, Vous derangez sans en avoir l'air." "La nostalgie de
l'enfance decrite par un grand ecrivain: Albert Russo. Retenez bien
ce nom. On en reparlera." Jean-Claude Bourret, critique litteraire
"Je ne peux resister au plaisir de vous feliciter. Tout cela est
excellent. J'ai beaucoup aime vos poemes." Robert Goffin, de
l'Academie Royale de Belgique. "Il y a la une facon de conter qui
va comme une riviere souterraine qui affleurerait de temps en temps
pour replonger aussitot. Pensee allusive, langue souvent trop
chargee (comme cette nature tropicale dont vous parlez si bien),
mots et images parfois manieres, tout cela contribue a creer un
climat chaud et blesse, un climat troublant. On ne l'oublie pas...
des les premieres pages, on sent un ton nouveau auquel on ne peut
rester indifferent." Paul Willems, ecrivain, poete et Directeur du
Musee des Beaux-Arts (Bruxelles) "Je viens de lire les deux volumes
que vous m'avez envoyes et leur ton m'a beaucoup touche" Joseph
Kessel, de l'Academie Francaise. "Pierre Emmanuel (de l'Academie
Francaise) tient a vous dire le plaisir qu'il a eu a lire ces pages
a la fois difficiles, sensuelles et pleines d'humour." "Le message
humain, c'est cela le 'fetiche' qui fait vibrer les ouvrages
d'Albert Russo. Une oeuvre retentissante." La Depeche de
Lubumbashi, Congo
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