The author of "that article" from the Huffington Post has an interesting background...fyi...
Bio: Larisa Alexandrovna
Larisa Alexandrovna is a journalist, essayist and poet. She is currently managing editor of Raw Story.
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Larisa was born inside the iron curtain of the former USSR, in the beautiful city of Odessa, Ukraine. At the age of seven, she left, tracing an émigré trajectory through Austria, Czechoslovakia and Rome before settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Larisa got her BA in English and Writing at CSU and won a scholarship to the prestigious Imagination workshop, which included such notable writers as Diane Wakoski and Sheila Schwartz.
As a poet, Larisa maintained a strong friendship with the poet Alberta Turner until Ms. Turners death in 2003. She was the poetry editor for the Cleveland Review (out of print) through which she met Charles Bukowski. She has also translated work for the Russian poet, Zoya Falkov as well as other lesser known Russian writers.
Currently, Larisa is hard at work on a book of poems, titled "Oddesitka/Amreikanka", and two books: Odessa Mama, a historical fiction account of a man's journey across a continent during the Soviet occupation.
The second book is titled The Culture of Lies, which ponders the manipulation of language and how that manipulation makes difficult any real and meaningful dialogue in society. This work also addresses the similarities of the printing press revolution with the Internet (technology revolution) and the premise of the Romantic poets of bringing the "language to the people." |
