Water and Life: Photos and Poems in English and in Italian

Adolph has penned poems since high school, oscillating between English and Italian, only identifying the language post-completion. His photography, deeply personal, doesn't always align with his poetry, leaning towards capturing nature's essence. His poetic style is free verse, focusing on the natural sound of words, using single words as lines, like "divinamente". Adolph's poetry, unbound by conventional forms, flows from his soul, mirroring rivers' varying temperaments. He believes poetry, like water, is essential, blending chemistry with biology of life.

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About the Author: Adolph (Adolfo) Caso
Adolfo completed first grade in Italy. After entering sixth grade in America, he finished high school and received degrees from Northeastern and Harvard University. He taught languages and literature at various levels and is a retired U.S. Army Colonel. His goal is to establish an online degree-granting Dante University of America for which he has developed several courses (www.danteuniversity.org).
Adolph (Adolfo) has been writing poems since his high school days, in both English and Italian, depending on his mood or on the subject. He confesses to no knowing the language he is using until after the poem is completed. As for his photography—all very personal, the photos may not necessarily complement the poems. Natural beauty often may better be captured with a camera than through a poem.
His poems are in free verse, more precisely, in word clusters. He does not use traditional rhythm or rhyme, but emphasizes the natural sound of the words themselves. Single words become whole lines, especially adverbs such as divinamente.
Not adhering to any school of poetry, his poems emanate from within his soul as water springs from the ground and spreads through the land as rivers, at times gentle and soothing, at times as rampant floods. Nevertheless, according to Adolfo, without water life would be chemistry without biology.

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