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Jackdaw Now Available
I am excited to announce the release of The Jackdaw and the Doll. This dark and wonder-winged fable, which I wrote, was illustrated in ink-pen drawing and sumi-e by Izumi Yokoyama. And for those who are familiar with, and fans … Continue reading
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Tagged fable, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, kafka, magical realism, new book, Publication
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Moonglow Under Review
Grateful for Candice Louisa Daquin’s advance review of my new book of poetry, Moonglow on Mercy Street (due out soon from CSF Publishing). Moonglow on Mercy Street by John Biscello When you read a lot of poetry for a living, … Continue reading
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Tagged candice lousia daquin, crow speak, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, moonglow on mercy street, poetry book, Publication, Review
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Sanctuary
“It is on the plane of the daydream and not on that of facts that childhood remains alive and poetically useful within us. Through this permanent childhood, we maintain the poetry of the past. To inhabit oneirically the house we … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, dreams, gaston bachelard, home, John Biscello, poem, poetics of space
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Small World Stuff
“So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one’s innermost being into a vast, empty plain, with none of the treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of ‘God’ can enter you, and something of … Continue reading
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Tagged ants that tango, empty, etty hillesum, it's a small world, John Biscello, meditation, poem, Prose
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Autumn
I close my eyes and I see her again, a silhouette, near to distance, and dissolving– the autumn rain taps its seminal code for longing onto the trembling glass of a window closed.
Burning Down the House
Grateful to be a contributor to the recently released anthology: As the World Burns: Writers and Artists Reflect on a World Gone Mad (Indie Blue Publishing). The women who spearheaded this project continue to create platforms in the publishing world … Continue reading
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Tagged anthology, art, as the world burns, book, Indie Blue Publishing, international, Poetry, Prose, Publication, we are the world
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Conscripture
It is not me you are looking for, it is you. We dress and undress as mirrors, conscripting images to burn and cherish, to reveal and reflect the many sides of a lighted front, a sideways turn, modeling love in … Continue reading
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Review of Invisible Ink
(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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Tagged book review, exsistential mystery, france, John Biscello, new book, novel, patrick modiano, Prose, riot material, yale university press
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Moonstruck
I never learned the secret delicious recipe of making a poem from moon, or the bluest glacial moon-cheese from any of my teachers. It wasn’t their fault. They might have regarded the moon as something distant, something belonging to astronauts, … Continue reading
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
You can, if you wish, file a million and one embittered complaints to the Universe, but none will bring the strange and mysterious results that a single shred of glimmering gratitude can, its kiss the tenderest seal upon symmetry’s origins.
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Tagged gratitude, John Biscello, open up, poem, universal lore, wonderwheeling
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