Tag Archives: image

Breathless

Posted on October 2, 2025 by John Biscello

From the Polaroid Noir series

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Theater, Uncategorized | Tagged image, Mirror, new wave, noir, polaroid, quartet, reflection, slow dive, torch song | Leave a comment

Cover Art

Posted on August 15, 2025 by John Biscello

You can vote now on one of seven possible covers (featuring the work of Heather Ross) for my forthcoming novel, The Last Furies.

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications | Tagged book, coming soon, cover art, heather ross, image, Literary, novel, photography, surreal | 9 Comments

Star

Posted on December 17, 2021 by John Biscello

In the shadow of worn celestial totems– mortal weight to bear.

Posted in Cinema, photography, Poetry | Tagged Edie Sedgwick, haiku, image, It Girl, poem, star, The Factory, warhol | Leave a comment

Postmodern Prehistory

Posted on April 3, 2019 by John Biscello

They were here before us, and they will be back after we are gone, the seers with the first eyes, the artists absolute in their sublime regard for the brute miracles of the everyday divine.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged art history, cavedwellers, image, John Biscello, LOOP there it is!, poem, the circle game, the wheels on the bus go round and round round and round | Leave a comment

Sheep

Posted on March 26, 2018 by John Biscello

Wild sheep chase, ending in void’s double exposure– who’s following whom? (Artwork by Izumi Yokoyama)

Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, following, haiku, image, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, murakami, poem, sheep, unravel, wild sheep chase | Leave a comment

Footfalls

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Not a simple feat, to follow one’s own footsteps– I, me, her, repeat.

Posted in Prose, Uncategorized | Tagged 1960s, Edie Sedgwick, foosteps, haiku, image, John Biscello, photo, poem, pop culture, star, superstar | Leave a comment

Fetish

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Biscello

To dare a fetish, he ceded faith to a stalk– Venus infers loss. (Photo by Alfred Steiglitz)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged alfred stieglitz, face, fetish, haiku, image, John Biscello, leg, leopold von scacher masoch, masochism, photo, poem, Venus in furs | Leave a comment

Closer

Posted on March 11, 2018 by John Biscello

You said you knew me, but really, what did you know? Closer, I dare you. (Photo by Man Ray)

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged art, closer, double, haiku, identity, image, John Biscello, Man Ray, photograph, poem, Poetry | Leave a comment

Kind of Blue, Too

Posted on March 9, 2018 by John Biscello

Spiders to Mozart, what luminous webs and notes we weave, snot-strands from God’s blown brass, tapestries of the eternal boombox, breakbeats to spacefolk to bebop within a deep forest kind of blue, the music, recorded or un, plays on and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged bebop, Blue, christian marclay, cyanotype, eternal, image, jazz, John Biscello, mozart, music, poem, spiders, visual | Leave a comment

Bulbs

Posted on March 9, 2018 by John Biscello

Incandescence, how bulbs aspire to fragrant gospel.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, Blue, bulbs, cyanotype, image, incandescence, John Biscello, photo, poem, Poetry | Leave a comment