Category Archives: photography

Review of Invisible Ink

Posted on October 30, 2020 by John Biscello

(Review of Patrick Modiano’s novel, Invisible Ink.) If there is a suitcase, forged documentation, café-life and tons of mileage accumulated tramping the streets of Paris, it’s a pretty safe guess that you are inside a Patrick Modiano novel. The French … Continue reading →

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Arson & Grace

Posted on October 21, 2020 by John Biscello

Collection of plays forthcoming from CSF Publishing. Arson & Grace Think of this collection as a black-market passport to a realm of lucid dreams and savage jest. Or as the splintered signpost to a crossroads where pop culture, mythology and … Continue reading →

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Jean Rhys

Posted on October 19, 2020 by John Biscello

You held the islands in your eyes, where it rained and rained and then the sun warmed wet to a wafting hiss. This Jean, you, the feline slink, filigreed shock, and sinewy comb of whitelaced waves ruffling upon puttied blobs … Continue reading →

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Jackson Pollock

Posted on October 19, 2020 by John Biscello

Out of silence, and lidded smolder, arose a localized storm. You could say it was a balletic squall forecasting its own tyrant reign and fall, a fate designed to galvanize and then blackout not so gently into that goodnight exit … Continue reading →

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Hurry Slowly

Posted on October 19, 2020 by John Biscello

“Hurry Slowly”was the ticktock mantraof the photographer,Josef Sudek, who praisedand made lasting secret loveto his Muse and ghost-veiledbride, Prague,vowing his fugitive eyeto herand her alone. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Smoke

Posted on October 19, 2020 by John Biscello

Mortal ponderance– Where did the time go this time? Smoke favors silence. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Childhood’s Edge

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

Estranged, yet aloft, in a world her vision sculpts– Adulthood far off. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Leaf

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

 A single leaf,solitary, unattached, at homein space, feral puckerseizing upon glass,a lonely kissmoist to the crunch. Photo by Josef Sudek

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Moment in Time

Posted on October 18, 2020 by John Biscello

Can you hear, the cobbled morning streetsgathering in thick coarse handsthe staccato clang of hoovesand thin gray voicesarising from the ghostsof peoplecaught in a sudden sonata?Can you not hear,the distance of bones,calling upon lightin an unremembered flicker? Photo by Josef … Continue reading →

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Wheelbarrow

Posted on October 16, 2020 by John Biscello

Consideringthe slopesof noble toiland grave matter,so much dependsupon a soiledwheelbarrow. Photo by Josef Sudek

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