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Tag Archives: 1950s
Jackson Pollock
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
Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry
Tagged 1950s, Abstract Expressionism, action painting, Jackson Pollock, John Biscello, New York, Poetry, pop mythology, primal grafitti, shamanic art, tribute
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The Honeymooners
Ralph Kramden sweats and sweats, his eyeballs bulging. Plagued by the notion that he has become a whale, no a rhinoceros, no an inoculated hippo that shows up to birthday parties uninvited. This visual grotesquerie, reflected to him through the … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, jackie gleason, John Biscello, Prose, ralph kramden, sitcom, the honeymooners, tv remixed
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Jackson Pollock
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
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, abstract, Abstract Expressionism, art, Jackson Pollock, John Biscello, ode, painting, poem, Poetry, spirit, tribute
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Sylvia Plath
To be a mother, and to double as a dark sorceress, a cleaver of dried bones, could not have been easy. Especially in the 1950s. They burned witches then, as well as reds and blacks and faggots, and other things … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, bones, craft, John Biscello, passion, poem, Poetry, Prose, prose poem, sorceress, strip tease, Sylvia Plath, vaudeville
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Jackson Pollock
Ballet in a storm, one man’s kinetic forecast– You will know my name.
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, abstract, Abstract Expressionism, frenzy, haiku, Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock, John Biscello, nature, painting, poem, storm
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Deluge
It is both pleasure, and an epitaph to pleasure, at the same time. When the phenomena occurs and the colors run and slash and slit down upon me in ravels of deluge. Spring-green, shell-pink, sky-blue, bled-red, egg-heaven, grief-yellow. I, a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, abstract, Abstract Expressionism, Artwork, deluge, Jackson Pollock, John Biscello, painting, poem, Poetry
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Music
Sometimes, when alone, and faced with the prospect of music as a savior, the choice between which record to play means all the difference in the world in getting through a day in a life ordered to meet someone else’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950s, John Biscello, music, poem, Poetry, record, vintage, woman
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John Biscello 