This book is a combination of popular Russian and English poet Boris Kokotov and artworks by Izya Shlosberg

Literature and art go hand in hand in this book featuring the Russian-language poems by Alex Gabriel, a well-known author from Boston, MA, and artwork of Izya Shlosberg, a wonderfully gifted painter from Baltimore.

The book "Rhyme on the Palette" is the second collaborative project between the artist Izya Shlosberg and the poet Elena Sosnina. The title of the book speaks for itself. It is hard to say what is doing the illustrating here, the poem or the painting, or vice versa. They are connected to one another on many levels: emotional, cerebral, spiritual...