Born in the then Yugoslavia in 1941, came to Kent, Ohio in October 1953 aboard the Queen Mary, learned English within two years, Russell Salamon has been writing poetry since 1964. It was then he started with Lewis Turco at Fenn College in Cleveland, Ohio and was part of the ascenea with d. a. levy, Grace Butcher, Kent Taylor, Russell Atkins, Adelaide Simon, Jau Bbillera, and others. In the summer of 2007 he visited Cleveland for three readings and wrote the contents of this book. He is the author of Descent into Cleveland, a novel about the turbulent Sixties in...