Sneak-peek into the process:
I always write by hand, with my F-402 ballpoint pn (black ink), in one-subject spiral notebooks, the cheap kind that come in different colors (mostly I go with red, purple and yellow, occasionally blue or black, never green). In that my handwriting has grown exponentially more glyphic, I try and transcribe from page to screen as quickly as possible, giving myself a better chance of being able to decipher what it is I’ve written. My trasnlation rate of success for myself remains pretty high, and what I lose in translation I trust will later return in other runs of text or reimagined forms.
This is a poem-in-progress, “The New Romantics.”
The writing life is a beautiful thing, something to which I have long been devoted and do my best to honor, word by miraculous word.
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About John Biscello
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001.
He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
John Biscello 