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|  | | Adopted by an American Homosexual in the Belgian Congo
Edmund White: «Albert Russo has recreated through a young African boy's joys and struggles many of the tensions of modern life, straight and gay, black and white, third world and first ... all of these tensions underlie this story of a biracial child adopted by a benevolent American. Adopted by an American in the Belgian Congo is a nonstop, gripping read!»
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Photo book on Africa (Sénégal and Kenya) - Photos by Albert Russo and Elena Peters, with texts in English and French by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier and Jérémy Fraise
Albert Russo (photos and pages 2 to 31 inclusive)
2 The savannah stretched in monotonous coppertones, dotted here and there by blisterlike anthills, then tiny clusters of huts would unstring under the plane's tarnished wings. But the bush reigned sovereign and ubiquitous, as if between it and the atmosphere any other object or living particle became an intruder.
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2 Partout s'étendait la brousse, inlassable, seule à seule avec l'atmosphère, comme si entre elles toute vie devenait une intruse. Dorloté par le bourdonnement mécanique, Fabien ferma les | |  | | Albert Russo: a poetic biography, volume 1-texts & photos
a photographic itinerary of Albert Russo's life (he has resided on three continents) and literary production (in English and in French) with poetic comments by Eric Tessier
by Eric Tessier 3 - Father came by boat, a stowaway, A smile and a flannel suit were his only fortune He came to conquer Africa °°° Père est venu par bateau, passager clandestin Un sourire et un costume de flanelle en guise de fortune Il allait conquérir l’Afrique 4 - Mother came by plane She walked the tarmac, England in her heart and dreams in her head °°° Mère est venue par avion Elle foula la piste, l’Angleterre dans son cœur des rêves pleins la tête 5 - He was from RHODES She grew up in RHODESia | |  | | Albert Russo: a poetic biography, volume 2-texts & photos
a photographic and poetic itinerary of Albert Russo's life (he has resided on three continents) and literary production (in English and in French)
| |  | | Animal Kinship - photos - blurb.com
Our vision of animals
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| |  | | Au naturel / born naked
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.
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Showing the beauty of the human body in a variety of postures in paintings, sculpture,black and white photos, etc.
THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE 2008 BOOK AWARDS at the Book Expo America in Los Angeles in 2008.
Finalist: City of Lovers- City of Wonder by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4357-4
Finalist: Body Glorious/Corps á corps by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 1-4257-2515-5
Finalist: New York at Heart/New York au Coeur by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4359-8
| |  | | Boundaries of Exile / Conditions of Hope
BOUNDARIES OF EXILE/ Conditions of Hope
by Albert Russo and Martin Tucker
A primer on exile through stories, poems, and essays
A personal and passionate search for definitions of identity from two writers who have witnessed the crimes of exile and recorded the triumphs of survival beyond such adversities. Russo and Tucker explore the struggles, both humorous and tragic, that determine and reveal human character through the experiences of exile. In this book the authors migrate from Greece to Central Africa, from Italy to the United States and beyond.
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The Capital of Europe - Photo book with short poems by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier, in English and in French
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visage rayonnant
ou reine éplorée?
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what secrets are hidden
behind that regal smile?
52-Albert Russo
il fait bon, il fait chaud
un verre de bière, et ce parfum de gaufre
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on a summer midafternoon
cold beer and the scent of warm waffles
53-Albert Russo
seul, avec sa cigarette, et ses pensées
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embracing the crowd of the Grand Place
54-Albert Russo
courbes sensuelles d’un portail
ouvrant sur un monde de mystères
* | |  | | Celestial blues / Chants du ciel - photos - blurb.com
Tunes the sky plays over our heads
Watch the sky play its magic over cities and landscapes, from Norway to Italy, Senegal and Congo, from Mexico to Russia, Israel and Jordan, from the north pole to the heart of the jungle, from Paris to New York and Oaxaca, from Bergen to Saint Petersburg and Jerusalem, from Beijing to Colombo, Venice and Fuerteventura, and watch the birds dance to its tunes.
| |  | | ChinaForever - photos - blurb.com
The China that never changes
| |  | | Chinese puzzle chinois - photography by Albert Russo
Photo book on China with texts in English and French by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier, Daniel Michelson and Sébastien Doubinsky
texts by Albert Russo
10.
a step closer to heaven
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le spectre du gratte-ciel
11.
musing about the last emperor
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rêves de princesse
12.
chained for life
biting the air
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les gardiens du palais
à la vie, à la mort
13.
never stir a troubled past!
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et les esprits se vengeront
14.
osmosis
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lac de sérénité
15.
welcoming th | |  | | City of Lovers/City of Wonder (Paris/New York) photography by Albert Russo
Paris and New York: two great cities face to face, back to back
THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE 2008 BOOK AWARDS at the Book Expo America in Los Angeles in 2008.
Finalist: City of Lovers- City of Wonder by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4357-4
Finalist: Body Glorious/Corps á corps by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 1-4257-2515-5
Finalist: New York at Heart/New York au Coeur by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4359-8
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| |  | | Congo, Rwanda & Burundi, the pillars of my youth
This book is a labor of Love and spans almost a century from before my birth. Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi are indeed the pillars of my youth. I have lived in these three countries for the first seventeen years of my life.
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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.
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| |  | | Eilat, Petra & Tel Aviv - photos - blurb.com
The rainbow cities of Eilat, on the Red Sea (Israel), Petra, the Nabatean site - one of the newly elected 7 wonders - (Jordan), and Tel Aviv, the colorful and cosmopolitan metropolis of Israel
| |  | | Embers under my skin
Albert Russo's new poetry book
| |  | | Eur-African Exiles
From Rhodes and Rhodesia to the Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi and finally to Italy -
An Eur-African Saga
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">This is the story of Sandro Romano-Livi, a young Italian Jew, leaving his Mediterranean island by boat, for the Belgian Congo (DR Congo), in 1926, as a stowaway. Of his adventurous life in Central Africa, during the first fifteen years, of David-Kanza (aka Daviko), the mulatto son he adopts, a secret he will disclose to his white Anglican fiancée, Gloria Simpson, born and raised in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Of their two daughters, Astrid and Dalia. Of his family's difficult situation and of their hopes. Of the loss of his par | |  | | Exils Africains ... et il y eut David-Kanza
How Sandro left his Mediterranean island in the twenties for the Belgian Congo, how he met his future wife, Florence, who grew up in Rhodesia. They had two daughters, Astrid and Dalia. How Daviko, the African boy was adopted by Sandro, how they all went to settle in Italy after the Congo tragedy once it became independent.
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| |  | | Expressive Romans - photos - blurb.com
Faces & attitudes in Rome, Italy
| |  | | France: Art, Humour & Nature - photobook - Blurb.com
France in all its guises and colors
France in all its guises and colors: its architecture and its nature
| |  | | Garden Delights - photos - blurb.com
gardens and flowers
| |  | | Gaytude: a poetic journey around the world
2009 Book Awards Winner- Indie Excellence
Gay/Lesbian Non-Fiction / Gay poetry around the world in both English and French, by Albert Russo and Adam Donaldson Powell.
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Paperback: $35.
Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch ‘felinist’who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with Firmin, the latter’s boyfriend. The girl however feels much closer to her ‘Unky Berky’, in spite of the fact that he is “such a weirdo at times and can get on her bloomin nerves”. Through Firmin, ‘the vermin’, she learns that her beloved uncle is a ‘homey setchual’. They will travel to four continents together and the trips promise to be quite bumpy. She is part American, part French, part Italian and finds out, along her journeys to Africa and the Holy Land, that she has other origins too.
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THE LITERARY REVIEW: “... Be warned, Zapinette's gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child's deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed. Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette's delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. | |  | | Granada, Costa del Sol, Ronda (Spain) - photography by Albert Russo
Jewels of Andalusia, Spain
| |  | | I-sraeli Syndrome
Alexis, who grew up in Rwanda-Urundi, is the son of an Italian Jew and a beautiful mulatto woman. As a young adult, he now ponders over the complexity of his roots: African-European and Judeo-Christian (his mother was raised a Catholic). The author guides the reader through a progression of exciting and complicated episodes involving Alexis. With his American wife he will vacation in Israel, and that stay will be a turning point in his life. The past catches up with him, exploding with the images of one man's life kaleidoscope: the memories of his African years, colliding with the more recent images of Milan, the smells, the colors and the primeval beauty of the black continent, mingling with those of Italy, as well as with the violent feelings Israel stirs in him. In that dense and haunting atmosphere he will meet young Israelis, a Palestinian and Hans, a German professor, the nephew of a Nazi soldier who died during WWII. A new frienship will bind the young protagonist to the German professor, a friendship that could evolve into something larger, that could change the life of the two characters. Will Alexis finally reconcile himself with the conflicting parts of his identity? Will he feel more African or more European; more Catholic or more Jewish; or will his new environment help him find peace within himself, in spite of the country’s current dangers? The ‘mystery’ will unravel in the last chapter of this largely autobiographical novel.
a memoir by Albert RUSSO set in Israel, Africa and Europe, which appeared, excerpted, in the following American magazines: The Midatlantic Review (NY) and Short Story International (NY). This novel, which was an award finalist in The National Best Books 2007 Awards, sponsered by USA Book News was first published in the author's own French version in 2005 by Editions Hors Commerce, Paris, under the title 'La Tour Shalom' and in America with Xlibris © 2008 in the author’s English version. br />
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Alexis, who grew up in Rwanda-Urundi, is the son of an Italian Jew and a beaut | |  | | In France - photography by Albert Russo
a taste of France in photos by Albert Russo and poetic texts by Eric Tessier and Albert Russo in French and English
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le temps s’envole
et s’inscrit dans la pierre
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time
and time again
stone
by stone
2-Albert Russo
les arbres se dénuderont
me laissant apercevoir
la concertante graphie
de cent archets de violon
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from my winter cell
the naked tree
with its hundred violin bows
will rehearse its mute symphony
3- Albert Russo
bleu cobalt, d’âme bleu
tu te voiles de linceul
gardant seule pour toi
cette douceur lascive
qu | |  | | In the air, on the ground & on the water - photos - blurb.com
Transportation in all its guises
| |  | | Israel / Jordan / Palestine
Israel / Jordan / Palestine - a book of photos subtitled
Spirit of Peace
| |  | | Israel at heart - photography by Albert Russo
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, two cities, two worlds
| |  | | Italia Nostra - photography by Albert & Alexandre Russo
Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples and Capri photographed by father and son, Albert and Alexandre Russo
| |  | | L'ancêtre noire / The Black Ancestor ( see: The Benevolent American ...)
One day, Leodine's uncle, eavesdropping on his parents, will reveal to the young girl that her deceased American father had a black great-grandmother. This news shatters Leodine and she becomes obsessed with the fact that she is of mixed blood in the Belgian Congo.
Leodine, the daughter of Astrid, a beautiful Fleming, and of Gregory McNeil, a young and buoyant G.I. whom the latter had met in Northern France during WWII, grows up in the Belgian Congo with her mother, after her father died in a plane crash, flying from America to rejoin his family. After a couple of years, Astrid falls in love with Piet Van den Berg, and the latter will move in with them. Leodine is surrounded by the love of her mother and of Piet, whom she now considers as her stepfather, as well as by the affection of her maternal grandparents and of her uncle Jeff, still an adolescent.
One day her uncle, eavesdropping on his parents, will reveal to her that her deceased American father had a black great-grandmother. This news shatters the young girl and she becomes obsessed with the fact that she is of mixed blood, although she is so fair that no one could ever surmise it. But from this moment on her existence becomes a calvary. This will determine her whole future: she has decided never to marry, nor to bear a child who might be darker than herself.
Albert Russo.“L’ancêtre noire”. Paris
Editions Hors Commerce (26, rue de Picpus - 75012 Paris)
2003. 216 pages - € 18 - ISBN 2-910599-89-2
(distributed by: CDE/Sodis - groupe Gallimard)
Africa or the quest for identity: the predicament of a white girl in the Belgian Congo and the terrible legacy of her American father.
Leodine, the daughter of Astrid, a beautiful Fleming, and of Gregory McNeil, a young and buoyant G.I. whom the latter had met in Northern France during WWII, grows up in the Belgian Congo with her mother, after her father died in a plane crash, flyi | |  | | La Tour Shalom / Shalom Tower Syndrome
Alexis' complex background catches up with him and appears to be at the root of his existential malaise. He was brought up a Catholic, while his father was an Italian Jew and his mother, a beautiful mulatto woman. He spent most of his youth in Central Africa and his early adult years in Italy. Will he and his American wife patch up during their stay in beautiful and problematic Israel?
THE SHALOM TOWER SYNDROME (initial title: TRIALITY), a novel by Albert RUSSO set in Israel, Africa and Europe, excerpts of which appeared in : The Midatlantic Review (NY) and Short Story International (NY). English language rights are the author’s sole property. Published in France as
LA TOUR SHALOM in the author’s own French version by Editions Hors Commerce, Paris in 2005.The novel has not been published in book form in English.
Synopsis
Alexis Romani, the protagonist, and his American-born wife, Serena are spending a few months in Israel. They normally live in M | |  | | Léodine l'Africaine
see The Black Ancestor.
Ce livre raconte l'enfance et l'adolescence de Lodine, fille de colons. Ne au Congo Belge au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle apprend adolescente que dans ses veines coule du sang noir, celui de son arrire grand-mre, esclave en Louisiane. Cela va changer sa perception du monde. Mais peut-on changer " qui l'on est " Albert Russo est l'crivain par excellence du mtissage. Nous allons du Noir au Blanc, de l'homme la femme, de l'Afrique l'Amrique du Nord. Il nous fait rflchir sur nos origines. La description qu'il fait du Rwanda et de la rgion des Grands Lacs incite la rflexion. Nous la connaissons surtout aujourd'hui pour tes massacres qui ont eu lieu entre Hutus et Tutsis. Russo nous parle d'un paradis perdu, l o nous nous souvenons de l'enfer. Toute la beaut du Congo dans un tourbillon d'odeurs, de jeux de lumire, de sensualits qui vous entranent avec une force incomprhensible pour celui qui n'a jamais foul le continent africain. Avec Lodine l'Africaine, Albert Russo revient sur le terrain de son enfance et nous livre une trs belle rflexion sur l'Afrique des annes 50 et sur le sens des origines.
see 'The Black Ancestor' | |  | | Leodine of the Belgian Congo
From American Slavery Back to Colonial Africa and After
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Objects have a soul
| |  | | MermaidsOftheBalticSea - photos of 8 cities -blurb.com - 440 pages
Photos by Albert Russo of: Saint Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Bergen, Oslo
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Photo book on Mexico with short poems by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier and Feijoo, in English, Spanish and French
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midday symphony
the air is still and oppressive
bliss spelled in Green
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feuilles immobiles
dans la touffeur de midi
sentez donc la sève
hacen la siesta
mientras un abejorro
elige su flor
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curiosity calls
for improvisation
peacefully watching
***
une pause au soleil
et l’on se couvre la tête
pour mieux observer
con tranquilidad
la cabeza cubierta
siguen mirando
5-Albert Russo
t | |  | | Mother beloved, Mamica mia
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.
This book is Albert Russo's tribute and salute to his beloved mother. The loss of one's parent(s) is usually quite painful and significant, no matter how old or young we are when we have this experience. We will always be their child, and she/he will always be "Mom" (or in this case, Mamica mia) or "Dad". While the passing of dear ones is a part of Life that must be expected and endured by one and all, letting go of persons who have been central in our lives for such a long time is a journey that encompasses both today, yesterday and yesteryears dating back to our first | |  | | New York at heart - photography by Albert Russo
The Big Apple in its many guises
THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE 2008 BOOK AWARDS at the Book Expo America in Los Angeles in 2008.
Finalist: City of Lovers- City of Wonder by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4357-4
Finalist: Body Glorious/Corps á corps by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 1-4257-2515-5
Finalist: New York at Heart/New York au Coeur by Albert Russo
www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4359-8
| |  | | Noël à / in Paris - photobook - Blurb.com
Christmas in Paris, France
| |  | | Norway to Spitzberg - photobook - blurb.com
the magnificence of the Norwegian fjords and the polar circle, a saga of the midnight sun.
| |  | | Ode to Mamica mia, Mother beloved
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.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">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 passion | |  | | Oh Zaperetta! the hilarious trilogy
THE LITERARY REVIEW
“... Be warned, Zapinette's gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child's deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed. Jackson,Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette's delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person's reading list.”
David Alexander
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: In the world of creative art, nothing can be more exciting and at the same time rarer and riskier (for the creator as well as for that creator's audience) than when an artist, who has established and settled within certain well-defined artistic limits, suddenly takes off on a new tangent into a completely different subrealm of that same art. It happens more often in music than in literature. Bach dared embark on a Kaffee Kantate , Verdi turned from Otello to Falstaff , and Haydn relished surprises throughout his career, not only at the end of one syrnphony. On th | |  | | Oriental Gems / Perles de l'Orient
A photographic journey through Vietnam, Sanya, Bangkok and Singapore
A photographic journey through Vietnam, Sanya (China), Bangkok (Thailand) and Singapore
| |  | | Pasión de España - photography by Albert Russo
the sea, the mountain and a fiesta: from Andalusia to the Canary islands
| |  | | Princes and Gods
Damiana, the enticing wife of Tobias Antoniades, a wealthy Greek merchant twenty years younger than him, has the reputation of being a hot ticket in town. Among Damiana’s lovers are the Tutsi Mwami himself, a Belgian police officer and Dimitri Stavros, a cinema owner. Damiana has added to her list a young American, Oswald Radcliffe, who works as a paramedic at the Evangelical mission. Oswald is a poet and an idealist. Dimitri is terribly jealous and wants Damiana to divorce her husband. To reach his aims he will gradually get involved in the local politics and before he realizes it he will be chosen as the hitman in the assassination of the Tutsi Prince Ruego, slated to become the country’s first Prime Minister.
All facts are true and I have lived through them, only names have been changed. It is mostly about the Hutu and the Tutsi and their feud (refer to the 1994 Tutsi genocide Rwanda).
p class="p1">span class="s1"> The story, based on historical events, is set in the former Rwanda-Urundi, a tiny landlocked territory in Central Africa held under Belgian trusteeship until 1962. The action takes place mainly in Buja, the lovely and seemingly dormant capital overlooking majestic Lake Tanganyika. At the time, the city’s population is about 70,000, comprising Congolese and a minority of Europeans of various origins, as well as Asians and Arabs./span>
p class="p1">span class="s2">Background/span>span class="s1">: The time is just before I | |  | | Quirks / Eclats - photography & texts by Albert Russo
the world upside down
| |  | | RainbowNature - photography by Albert Russo
how beautiful and vulnerable our world is!
| |  | | RomaDiva - photography by Albert Russo
photography by Albert Russo and poetry by Eric Tessier, Albert Russo, Daniel Michelson and Sébastien Doubinsky, in English, French and Italian
ROMAdiva - Art book: photography by Albert Russo and poetry by Eric Tessier, Albert Russo, Daniel Michelson and Sébastien Doubinsky, in English, French and Italian. Published in the USA by Xlibris (www.Xlibris.com) 2004. 80 pages.
Softcover ISBN 1-4134-5456-9 - $ 26.99
Hardcover ISBN 1-4134-5457-1 - $ 32.99
Lovers of Rome, this book will enchant you. ROMAdiva showscases the Eternal City in its variegated moods through the superb and often striking color photography of Albert Russo and the fine texts, in English, Italian and French, of four contemporary poets. This not a |
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DO YOU SEE...WHAT I SEE?
by Asa Seeley
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 Asa D Seeley, a young Afro American man, shares his struggle to leave his past behind as he reaches for his future. In his one-of-a-kind style, he searches for answers...from the visible & invisible. A Memoir in Poetical/Prose form.
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