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Category Archives: Prose
Twice Five Miles podcast interview
It was an absolute pleasure being a guest on the Twice Five Miles podcast with James Nave, getting to discuss youth theater, the writing life, creative process, and many other things under the sun and moon.
Posted in Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized
Tagged creative process, interview, novels, podcast, Poetry, the writing life, Theater, youth, youth theater
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Sonata of the I
The hatless pilgrim, roving this way and that, a man embodying the virtues of scat (in every sense of the word), roving through starched cardstock fields in search of an impossible flower and its stingy nettles—proud, pistil-engraved, the flower’s gullet … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged fiction, music, pilgrimage, Poetry, Prose, samuel beckett, self, solipsistic kicks, sonata, story, variations on I, what's in a name
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Pilgrimage of the I
A hatless pilgrim, roving this way and that, a man embodying the virtues of scat (in every sense of the word), wandering through starched cardstock fields in search of an impossible flower and its stingy nettles— proud, pistil-engraved, the flower’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged fiction, ghosts, I, poem, Poetry, road trip, samuel beckett, self, solipsism, vaudeville, wanderer, writing
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Beckett’s Sonata
A hatless pilgrim, roving this way and that, a man embodying scat (in every sense of the word), wandering through starched cardstock fields in search of a stingy flower, proud, pistil-engraved, the flower’s gullet scorched by streaks of sungold (this, … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Theater
Tagged fiction, Godot's godchildren, krapp, malone, mercier et camier, molloy, murphy, Poetry, Prose, samuel beckett, travel, writing
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Sphinx
Convicted sphinx to beguiling raptures, and time-spanned sync-holes, literary enigma, Clarice Lispector, understood keenly the tolling of ruptures within, sowing breath’s metered and fasting threads to the fractional seethe of holy and lent.
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged clarice lispector, poem, Poetry, sphinx, writer
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Because the Night
In lyrical, abetted praise of Patti Smith, white witch torchbearer of punk mettle and lightning bones— She, wildly grown and gutter-starred, remains in love and swelling thrall to the Romantic timbre and clash of Rimbaud’s unrelenting wake, or Plath’s penning … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose
Tagged music, patti smith, photo, poem, Poetry, praise, rimbaud, robert mappelthorpe, rock and roll, Stars, Sylvia Plath, thank you, vision
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Bolano and Me
Last night I dreamed of Roberto Bolaño. Or he of me. We were sitting at a dimly lit café, a subterranean plot of a café, and Bolaño was drinking chamomile tea. In the latter stages of his life chamomile tea … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged boxing, cafe, chamomile tea, chile, creative-writing, dream, fiction, Literary, literature, poem, Poetry, roberto bolano, writer's life, writing
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Outlaw Country
“Outlaw Country,” an excerpt from my novel, None So Distant, published in Spare Parts Literary Magazine as part of their From the Desk series: Reports of fringy lore on lost highways. Point-counterpoint in a twangy battle of wills. Stay tuned. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Publications
Tagged excerpt, lost highway, music, novel, outlaw country, Prose, Publication, words
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The Menken
She, the Menken, Byronic in flame and force, mastered the art of social media long before technology caught up, selling the illusion of a man/ woman bound naked to a horse; she, the salacious Mazeppa, incited a modern storm, long … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged 19th century, actress, adah isaacs menken, Byron, poet, Poetry, woman on fire
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John Biscello 