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The work of award-winning poet, performance artist, actor, and musician Linda J. Albertano and her husband of 55 years, Frank Lutz, is collected in On the Life of Linda J. Albertano, including poetry, stories, and prose, as well as memorabilia from Linda's astounding performance career. Linda J. Albertano, award-winning poet and Poetry Diva of the City of Los Angeles, was an enchantress, musician, performance artist, actress, and filmmaker. As a child, she was reared in various unkindly foster homes. But this six-foot-four beauty with brains excelled and made her art speak for her. Frank Lutz was Linda's lover, husband, partner, and best friend for more than 55 years. While Frank was the quiet one of the pair, his experiences as an athlete, scholar, pilot, sailor, and European aficionado provided the kernel for much of his narrative poetry. Together they were creative scholastic gems.

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""Linda Albertano, a force of nature, a woman of integrity, a singular voice of -unimpeachable honesty. A goddess who rose from childhood trauma and -created art that left audiences breathless. She was my friend. Always."" -Laurel Ann Bogen, Founding Member of Nearly Fatal Women, poet, and author ""A deeply compassionate and transformative performance artist and poet-writer, Linda J. Albertano was without peer. It is impossible not to be touched by the magic of her boundless humanity and love for all."" -S.A. Griffin, poet, actor, and Dadaist Supreme ""Whether you knew Linda from her utterly original performance art, or from her Kora playing, or from hearing her read, or from simply spending time with her in conversation, she was always truly a poet. She breathed life into language, and expanded our sense of what is possible. She has left her poems as a gift to us all, and for that I am truly thankful. They will continue to transform the imaginations of all of us who encounter them."" -Quentin Ring, Director, Beyond Baroque ""For my Big Sister Linda J. Albertano, my advisor, my student, she was a Grand Lady, very special in my life. I am composing your song, my sister Linda's song in the Zone of the Spirit and with us. Thank you very much, my Linda, from my heart, and with gratitude. Your Kora instructor since 1999."" -Prince Diabaté Kora Master, Guinea, West Africa (Translated from the French by Frank Lutz) ""She was an awe-inspiring presence, performance poet and film maker. Linda was a great soul, larger than life and utterly brilliant. She was infinitely kind and utterly brilliant. Life will never be the same without her. Dearest Linda, in your own words, ""I will worship at your shrine, forever."" -Anna Homler, Poet and performance artist ""If there ever was a Creative, Very Feminine, Amazon Goddess of the sweetest nature & temperament that this or any other world has ever seen or known, it has to have been my dear musical friend, the late Linda ""Albert"" Albertano."" -Taj Mahal, Great Blues Artist ""Whether in words written or spoken, in poetry or prose, in music and in physical presence, her light transcended shape and form."" -Adam Leipzig, Producer, director, stage, and performance art productions ""Linda Albertano was a one-of-a-kind artist and human being. Her poetry and performance art was so earth-shatteringly original, it made us all aspire to raise the stakes of our own work."" -Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, co-directors, Three Rooms Press

"""Linda Albertano, a force of nature, a woman of integrity, a singular voice of -unimpeachable honesty. A goddess who rose from childhood trauma and -created art that left audiences breathless. She was my friend. Always."" -Laurel Ann Bogen, Founding Member of Nearly Fatal Women, poet, and author ""A deeply compassionate and transformative performance artist and poet-writer, Linda J. Albertano was without peer. It is impossible not to be touched by the magic of her boundless humanity and love for all."" -S.A. Griffin, poet, actor, and Dadaist Supreme ""Whether you knew Linda from her utterly original performance art, or from her Kora playing, or from hearing her read, or from simply spending time with her in conversation, she was always truly a poet. She breathed life into language, and expanded our sense of what is possible. She has left her poems as a gift to us all, and for that I am truly thankful. They will continue to transform the imaginations of all of us who encounter them."" -Quentin Ring, Director, Beyond Baroque ""For my Big Sister Linda J. Albertano, my advisor, my student, she was a Grand Lady, very special in my life. I am composing your song, my sister Linda's song in the Zone of the Spirit and with us. Thank you very much, my Linda, from my heart, and with gratitude. Your Kora instructor since 1999."" -Prince Diabat� Kora Master, Guinea, West Africa (Translated from the French by Frank Lutz) ""She was an awe-inspiring presence, performance poet and film maker. Linda was a great soul, larger than life and utterly brilliant. She was infinitely kind and utterly brilliant. Life will never be the same without her. Dearest Linda, in your own words, ""I will worship at your shrine, forever."" -Anna Homler, Poet and performance artist ""If there ever was a Creative, Very Feminine, Amazon Goddess of the sweetest nature & temperament that this or any other world has ever seen or known, it has to have been my dear musical friend, the late Linda ""Albert"" Albertano."" -Taj Mahal, Great Blues Artist ""Whether in words written or spoken, in poetry or prose, in music and in physical presence, her light transcended shape and form."" -Adam Leipzig, Producer, director, stage, and performance art productions ""Linda Albertano was a one-of-a-kind artist and human being. Her poetry and performance art was so earth-shatteringly original, it made us all aspire to raise the stakes of our own work."" -Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, co-directors, Three Rooms Press"

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Linda was a phenomenon from the 1960s to the 2020s. Reared as a child in various unkind foster homes in Denver, Colorado, she excelled as a student in high school and at the University of Colorado, and later at UCLA film school. She was a beauty with brains, and early on perfected her skills in Los Angeles. Her songs were recorded by Linda Ronstadt and Taj Mahal, et al., and her stagecraft on world tours by the American impresario Alice Cooper and troupe. She did solo performances in North America, Europe, and Africa. In Los Angeles, she was honored with the title of Poetry Diva. Linda performed in over 300 venues since the 1960s, including the Getty Center and the John Anson Ford Theatre in Los Angeles, the Long Beach Arena, the October Gallery in London, the One World Poetry Festival in Amsterdam, the summer Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and many others. She was commissioned by Santa Monica, CA, Long Beach Harbor, CA, and other cities to do public performances and environmental studies in poetic forms. Media reviews of her performances were always glowing with appreciative praise. Sadly, this majestic icon, who by many was an ""eternal"" lover of humanity and art, passed away on September 13, 2022. It was left to her loving husband, Frank Lutz, to put together her archives and poetry of almost sixty years for the public to see and cherish. So welcome, Dear Reader, to the art and soul of our dear Linda Albertano. Read the poetic words of this fine wordsmith. Poet and Performance Artist, musician, filmmaker, brilliant with ideas, florid with emotion, and truth-teller with her unique picture of relations between the sexes, and events in the world at large! See for yourself-and you will never forget her. The way this lady of poetry writes will set your mind on fire with emotion and ideas! If you want to see how a master mixes words, it's all here for you in these three volumes. Frank Lutz is a poet with an understated narrative writing style. He attended universities in France, Italy, and Germany; and graduated from UCLA, Summa Cum Laude with his wife, Linda. He possesses a Vatican passport and is called Dottore Lutz in the Vatican Secret Archives. Frank also has a commercial pilot's license, and anFAA pilot instructor certificates. He and Linda married twice and were together for 55 years. Suzanne Lummis was the 5th recipient of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center's George Drury Smith Award for Excellence in Poetry and a 2018/19 City of Los Angeles Fellow, an endowment to artists and writers enabling them to create a new body of work. She is among the few who've defined the poem noir, and poetry.la produces her series on film noir and contemporary poetry, ""They Write by Night"" featuring poems by poets local and national. In 2023 she guest-edited a special Noir issue of the international publication Pratik, which features poetry, fiction, non-fiction and essays exploring noir subject matter in the noir style. Last year, the Los Angeles Times named her poem, ""Really Mystic River"", one of 14 essential Los Angeles ""poems or collections of poetry"" in its article ""The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf."" She's published three poetry collections, Idiosyncrasies, In Danger, and Open 24 Hours; the last a winner of the Blue Lynx Prize, and published by Blue Lynx Press, and her poems have appeared in literary publications across the country and in The New Yorker. Her phone calls to Linda J. Albertano and Laurel Ann Bogen with the suggestion ""Let's join forces and make something happen"" led to the founding of Nearly Fatal Women.

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