Urban Reflections: Photography and Poetry in Dialogue

By Wilfried Raussert and Ketaki Datta

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: kipu
• Release date: Jan 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9783946507321

Wilfried Raussert

Photographer: Wilfried Raussert is photographer with a record of photo exhibits in Germany, Mexico, the USA, China, and Portugal. His first book as photographer Art Begins in Streets Art Lives in Streets (2017) was published in Germany with the support of the Federal Ministry of Research and Education. He is also scholar, author, and editor of around twenty scholarly books. He is chair of North American and Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Book preview

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

With close-knit thick brows

With snakeskin lips

Fleshy and curved,

His nostrils are concealed,

Like abstruse message

In an envelope!

His fingers hold the diner

In a mysterious cocoon!

Inside, there sit a couple,

Maybe new friends

Weighing pros and cons

Of a growing