Description
- Kind: Perfectbound
- Pages: 215
- Language: English
- Date Published: January, 2023
- ISBN 978-1-953252-70-8
Excerpt
Coal Yard #3 by Robert Kareka
Photographer
Robert Kareka (L) & William O’Rourke (R)
Robert Kareka was born in 1934 in Scranton, PA, died February 18, 2020 at the Green Ridge Care Center, located in Scranton. His wife Inez (Martini), preceded him in death. He was the son of the late Walter and Freda Schneider Kakereka and attended Scranton schools and was an Artist by trade and an Air Force veteran. He left for 30 years but returned. Worked in the theater in NYC and over the years photographed in Japan, Germany, Chicago, Cape Cod, Boston, Key West, and Mexico. He once wrote, “Photographic style depends upon my surrounding environment. I do not analyze the photo. The image is the issue. What you see is it.”
Curator
William O’Rourke is the author of The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left (1972), Signs of the Literary Times: Essays, Reviews, Profiles (1993), On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir (2006), Campaign America ‘96: The View From the Couch (1997), Campaign America 2000: The View From the Couch (2001), Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer (2012), Politics and the American Language: Reviews, Rants, and Commentary, 2011-2018 (2020), as well as the novels The Meekness of Isaac (1974), Idle Hands (1981), Criminal Tendencies (1987), Notts (1996), and has edited two anthologies. He is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.