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Tag Archives: arclight
After Party
She, Lazarus, back from the dead, with a musical vengeance— A beat, Christ, please, she asks of her martyred D.J., half-light, half-man, and out climbs her voice, grinding through rubble, a dark velvet toy wound up for centuries, released, on … Continue reading
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Tagged arclight, book, collection, don't call it a comeback, Indie Blue Publishing, Lady Lazarus, poems, Poetry
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God’s Word Against Mine
And on the eighth day she was diagnosed an Artist, and saw that it was good and fierce and necessary, and went forth creating like a madwoman, rattling gravity shackles to the din of furor and crumbling towers within. (Poem … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry
Tagged arclight, Indie Blue, poem, poetry collection, publishing, the lyrical life, word to the mother
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Immigration Laws
We areimmigrants in our own skin,flash-fire refugeeswho get by with falsified papers,fake IDs, and forged signatures.If caught and found guiltyof a trespassor transgression,we pardon ourselvesin our native tongues,language a placeholderfor the nameswe were forcedto annul. (Poem from the collection, Arclight.)
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Tagged arclight, Indie Blu(e), Poetry, poetry book, word to the mother
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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
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Tagged arclight, poem, Poetry, Sylvia Plath, tribute
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Jean Rhys
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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Tagged arclight, author, Good Morning Midnight, islands, Jean Rhys, John Biscello, Poetry, Prose, tribute, wide sargasso sea
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Coil
To caper at the edge, where the seething lyric happens, poetry with slits and fast teeth, where the hours of phenomena are boiled and reduced to a single quivering instant, an umbilical knot of light upon tenderest scraps and coils.
D’Arc Night of the Soul
(For All Hallow’s eve, a “witch’s” tale) Enlightened, perhaps. God-engorged hormones, maybe. Regardless of why, Joan, you were the rebel prototype long before James Dean zipped up a red jacket, or Marlon Brando mumbled and curled his upper lip into … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Cinema, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged arclight, Guy Denning, halloween, joan of arc, John Biscello, poem, realm of the spirit, sorceresses and saints, the passion
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The Passion of Joan
Enlightened, perhaps. God-engorged hormones, maybe. Regardless of why, Joan, you were the rebel prototype long before James Dean zipped up a red jacket, or Marlon Brando mumbled and curled his upper lip into a totem, before Louise Brooks and Josephine … Continue reading
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Tagged arclight, InnerVisions, joan of arc, John Biscello, jules bastien-lepage, maid of orleans, poem, prose poem, The Calling
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Book Giveaway
In honor of National Poetry Month (and April’s Fool’s Day) I will be giving away ten digital copies of my poetry collection, Arclight, to the first ten respondees. To request a copy, email me: johnbiscello@gmail.com. Cheers, and in the immortal … Continue reading
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Tagged arclight, book giveaway, collection, Indie Blu(e), John Biscello, national poetry month, Poetry
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Funky Monk Live
Video clips from the Arclight book launch at Studio 107-B in Taos, NM (3/12/19). Performing “Funky Monk” w/ Ben Wright on the bass.
Posted in Audio, Books, Poetry, Press, Theater, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged arclight, Ben Wright, book launch, funky monk, Indie Blu(e), John Biscello, music, Poetry, Spoken Word, studio 107-B, Taos
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