| Angel Birds: Selected Poems And Archives Of The Mafia Don Zen Master Richard Rizzi Contributor(s): Koniz, Journalist Correspondent Gary L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1074555511 ISBN-13: 9781074555511 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 6" W x 9" (0.23 lbs) 50 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Richard Rizzi (a Capricorn) is the son of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra Mafia Crime Boss Duke Rizzi, and is most famous for his resurgence of the progressive academics of The New School, based to spontaneous teaching and education without walls or structure of curriculum within the artistic and literary community of The State University of New York at New Paltz. The New School began in 1933 as the University in Exile, an emergency rescue program for threatened scholars in Europe. The school is renowned for its avant-garde teaching of a variety of disciplines, social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy - and functioning as an International Think Tank and World Policy Institute. Richard Rizzi was born in the back of a pool hall, on December 31, 1936 in Brooklyn, NY. After serving in the United States Army in occupied Germany, he returned to the U.S. in the 1950's and settled in New York City where he began a lifelong pursuit of study of Zen, Metaphysics, and the exploration of music, poetry, and visual and performance art. He has been the founder or co-founder of numerous poetry reading series, benefits for the arts and artistic groups, including the Hudson Valley Poetry Society and the poetry performance group Outist Living in America. Over the last 40 years, he has periodically combined this eclectic mix of art forms to create several public live performance pieces being realized in both theater and nature.Since the 1960's Richard has traveled extensively to study visual and poetic arts, including trips to Spain to study Garcia Lorca; to Japan to study Zen Rock Gardens, to Switzerland to study Paul Klee; to Amsterdam for Van Gogh. Between travels he is a resident of New Paltz, NY where he spends much of his time fostering the work of younger artist in his community with the same enthusiasm, dedication and curiosity that he brings daily to his own work preaching Dadaism to rebuke the meaninglessness in the Modern World. For the past seven years he has traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Denmark, performing with Trio CHROCH, a word/sound experimental improvisational ensemble. |