Urban Reflections E-Book

Wilfried Raussert

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 20

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This book is mix-media publication of image and text in dialogue. It wants to unravel the beauty and politics of contemporary city space, mainly in the Americas . It narrates by creating a dialogue between photography, poetry, and street art. The book is designed as a little pocket gallery that you carry with you to be read, enjoyed and shared en route and in the public spaces of our cities.

Leseprobe

A book dedicated to all street artists and urban dwellers

How many times do we walk the city? How many times are we present and at the same absent closing our eyes to people, things near? Our thoughts are caught up in matters of everyday life and we walk the street lost in glamorous sights. This book wants to unravel the beauty and politics of contemporary city space in the Americas. It wishes to create a dialogue between photography, poetry, and street art.

Read, share and enjoy the book in the public spaces of our cities: cafés, parks, street corners, the metro, the bus. It is designed as a little pocket gallery that you carry with you. The wish is to please the reader’s eyes, to inspire the reader’s mind, to hopefully touch the reader’s soul and to open people’s eyes to the city spaces around them beyond consumption.

Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld/Guadalajara Ketaki Datta, Calcutta

Photographer Poet

June 2018

Table of Contents

Light our fire

Cantina luchador

Eastside Women

Sun-dried Butterflies

Some other god

Grabbing a Degree

Fresh Juices and Parted Lips

Cleansing the Countenance

A Tale of Walking in and Leaving

Rolling stones fan

Lost Gaze

Going down

Caught in Between

Tricky thing

Green in hue

Secret Sharers

Unity in Diversity

Man and Music

In awe

Urban mobilities

Birdman

Come and Dance with Him

Woman meets Woman

Seattle Calling

Punk lady

Wear That Smile

Rush hour

Wall to Walk

This is Paradise

What Matters

LIGHT OUR FIRE

All marigolds, of all variegated hue

Adorn you,

Your face, a crisscross of

red and blue,

Jim Morrison, after singing such

Fiery numbers,

How could you succumb to

Nullity, under alien stars?

One evening, when your passion

Kept running high

Your dreams nudged you to

Sing of anything in ken and nigh,

Evening in Paris was driving you

Crazy with lyrics in style,

Drawing a pall abruptly

on your body, so agile!

Twenty-seven were you,

Dreams still unarranged;

Reality – still a chimera

But Time decided to merge

with Eternity,

Snuffing the wick of your candle,

So sprightly, so gritty!

CANTINA LUCHADOR

A bizarre logo ‘luchador’

above

Marks the canteen as unique,

The closed eyes of a man