The Crowded World of Solitude Volume 2 - Russo, Albert
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Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician. I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but having first drained it of its essential qualities. Russo writes at all levels - a compulsive creator who is always going to have something important, or different , or both, to say. His work reaches…mehr

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Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician. I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but having first drained it of its essential qualities. Russo writes at all levels - a compulsive creator who is always going to have something important, or different , or both, to say. His work reaches into the very soul of contemporary living. Here, one comes to grips with many contemporary problems, all beautifully crafted and possessing the Russo hallmark of subtle observation. Each poem is a gem in its own right. "Albert Russo possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. His contributions to the literary world are amazingly varied, reminding one of an intellectual butterfly - able to flit from one topic to another, but having first drained it of its essential qualities -, a compulsive creator who is always going to have something important, or different , or both, to say. Here, one comes to grips with many contemporary problems, all beautifully crafted and possessing the Russo hallmark of subtle observation. Each poem is a gem in its own right." 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 a 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 N E W S ! N E W S ! N E W S ! Congratulations! Your submission to Writer¿s Digest¿s most recent Self-Published Book Competition was chosen as an honorable mention in its category! Your submission: The Crowded World of Solitude: The Collected Stories Category: mainstream/literary As an honorable mention winner, you will be listed along with other winners in the March 2006 issue. To get a sample of what the listing will look like, see the August 2005 issue, which profiles our most recent winners. Soon you will receive a formal letter from our competitions department. That letter will be accompanied by a Notable Award Certificate and instructions on how to collect your $50 worth of Writer¿s Digest Books. Once again, congratulations! Chuck Sambuchino Assistant Editor Writer¿s Digest magazine 2008 BEACH BOOK BOOK FESTIVAL WINNERS! ATLANTIC CITY (May 3, 2008) POETRY: WINNER: # "Weapon of Choice," Jeffery Martin RUNNER-UP: # "The Crowded World of Solitude: Volume 2," Albert Russo JM Northern Media LLC, Beach Book Festival - 323-665-8080 7095 Hollywood Blvd. Suite 864, Hollywood, CA 90028 Bruce Haring - email: b
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A humanist with roots in Central, Southern Africa, and the Mediterranean, Albert Russo has been acclaimed by authors, such as James Baldwin, Edmund White, Martin Tucker, Douglas Parmee of Oxford University, Adam Donaldson Powell, David Alexander, Richard Mathews, Joseph Kessel, Pierre Emmanuel, and Jean d'Ormesson, all three of the Académie Française, as well as by his African peers, Chinua Achebe and Maurice AMURI Mpala-Lutebele (University of Lubumbashi, DR Congo). His seminal work, the AFRICAN QUATUOR, set in DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, has appeared in his own English and French versions, as well as in translations (Italian and Dutch), in over 20 editions worldwide. All in all, his work has been translated into about 15 languages. SPEAK TO ME, MOTHER BELOVED (2019) is dedicated to his adored mother and to POETRY, with about 140 poems and as many photos in both black and white and in color, that he took during his years on the four continents in which he has resided, and during his travels around the world. His last novel co-written with Jeanette Skirvin, TEL AVIV'S ETHIOPIAN QUEEN, was published in 2021 by l'Aleph in Sweden. His most recent French novels are MÉMOIRES D'UN FILS DE NAZIS and LE CAP DES ILLUSIONS.Albert Russo was also a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Some of the Prizes he has received are: Best 2013 Unicef Short Story award in defense of childhood worldwide, for Revenge by proxy / Vengeance par procuration; 2018 Book Excellence Award for his big book GOSH ZAPINETTE!; Unicef 2018 and 2021 awards for the body of his poems; Mémoires d'un fils de nazis, novel (2020); Prix Colette, Prix de la Liberté, and Prix Littérature Jeunesse. Here are some of his other fiction and poetry awards: The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards. He has also been nominated for the W.B. Yeats and Robert Penn Warren poetry awards, Prix de l'Ile des poètes, Bronze medal (Monnaie de Paris) for his book Éclats de malachite. And last but not least, GAYTUDE, a book of poems in both English and French, co-written with Adam Donaldson Powell, the multi-talented poet, author, musician, painter and gay activist, was honored as Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for the Category Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction in 2009.Albert Russo's 75-odd books of photography have garnered awards in the USA, UK, India, Russia, France, Switzerland, etc. Some of his work has been exhibited in the Louvre Museum, at the Espace Pierre Cardin, both in Paris, in Times Square, New York, at the Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland, in Art Berlin, in Tokyo, in Moscow, etc. He is also known for his humorous series GOSH ZAPINETTE, published in English, French and Italian.