Crossing Over by Frank Romano, Kyle Torke (Editor), M. Stefan Strozier (Editor)
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- Pub. Date: November 2008
- Publisher: World Audience, Inc.
- Format: Paperback, 104pp
- ISBN-13: 9781935444046
- ISBN: 1935444042
Synopsis
"This collection of poetry by the author of Storm over Morocco reveals a young and a mature man's inner journey as he travels from California to Paris and the Mediterranean, discovering Italian and French identities. Particularly moving are the poems "Ma Fille" and "Held you", both exploring the poet's relations to his children."
-Mary Ann Frese,
Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, North Carolina State University
"Frank Romano throws himself headlong-physically and spiritually-into the world. In Crossing Over, Romano generously extends himself through language to make his experiences our own."
-Martha Witt,
Author of Broken As Things Are
Professor of Creative Writing at William Paterson University
"Impossible not to feel more alive after reading Frank Romano's volcanic bursts of poetry".
-Ruth Wire, Poet,
HayWire Writers' Workshop
Biography
Frank Romano is the Melbert B. Cary Jr. Distinguished Professor of Graphics Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology School of Printing Management Sciences. He is also a consultant and adivsor to universities, corporations, and government. He is the founder and editor of numerous publications and the author of several best selling graphic arts titles. Mr.
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CROSSING OVER BY FRANK ROMANOby Janet-Rose-Wolfman
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January 29, 2009:
Recently, I had the pleasure to have met Author Frank Romano at a poetry reading in NYC. Fresh off the plane from Paris where he is currently living and working, Frank rushed to the first poetry reading he could find.
I subsequently spent some time with Frank, talking and hanging out and got to know him pretty well.
Amazingly enough, some of the poems in this book, CROSSING OVER, written in his youth, showed a prescience. and a universiality that mirrored exactly some of the experiences we had in the present, especially CITY and DREAM WITH ME.
Frank's other book, STORM OVER MOROCCO is about his experience as a young man seqrching for the meaning of God and life--having been captured and subsequently escaping from radical Muslims.
In the present, Frank is so free of hatred, revenge and rancour that he is passionately devoted to promoting peace in the Middle East and leads several interfaith peace marches in the area every year.
The only allusion Frank makes to this time in this bbok is in the poem TO AUNTIE. I shared your sorrow. How could they hurt little Frankie?
These poems are personal pieces of Frank's life exposed for all to share. Prescient, Universal, Human. Told in plain, beautiful unpretentious language. They traverse Frank's journey through life as a boy, a man, father, lover of women, and Universal Human.
Read these poems and savor them. They come straight from the heart of Frank Romano with love to you, the reader and to me.
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