Amazon Embers under my skin Embers under my skin by Albert Russo Category:  Poetry Publisher: Blurb Inc. ISBN-10:  fr.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3061031 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 80 Copyright: 22 February 2012 Albert Russo's new poetry book Excerpt ECHOES OF THE FLESH Do you hear that sound the clicking in your entrails like the distant rumble of war? Picture the battles being waged inside your body the blood cells colliding in the midst of a snow storm Is it Napoleon’s troops falling like pegs at the gates of Moscow or the last German battalions being decimated in the deadliest of a Russian winter? The echo grows louder until it fills every inch of your bones You try to move a leg a gesture repeated a million times by rote but suddenly your limbs refuse to obey history has a way of taking its revenge some call it karma

Praise from poets and writers
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 and I applaud the wicked portrait of Ionesco.
All the best, JAMES BALDWIN

DOUGLAS PARMEE, Poet and translator (Queens' College, University of Cambridge, UK):
“... l was particularly impressed by the remarkable range shown in such a small space, and the extraordinary command of the language. Albert Russo will one day produce an important body of work."

PIERRE EMMANUEL , Poet (Académie Française):
“... l want to tell you the pleasure l had upon reading those difficult, sensuous pages ... yet full of humor.”

PAUL WILLEMS, Curator of the Brussels Museum of Fine Arts and Author: "From the onset l felt a new tone in Albert Russo's work, to which one cannot remain indifferent.”