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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. 4

Posted on January 22, 2024 by John Biscello

The fourth and final volume is dedicated to vanishing points, prevailing absences and Zen-empty ephemera.

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. 3

Posted on January 18, 2024 by John Biscello

This volume features shrines and cemeteries, and a visit to Ryokan’s hut.

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. II

Posted on January 9, 2024 by John Biscello

This volume comprises nocturnes and night scenes from Japan (Niigata, Tokyo and Kyoto).

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In the Company of Solitude, Vol. I

Posted on January 8, 2024 by John Biscello

During the summer of 2023, I had the privilege and joy of spending six weeks in Japan, based in Niigata, with short trips to Tokyo, Kyoto and Sado Island. I enjoyed the flaneur’s giddy and childlike luxury of wandering streets … Continue reading →

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Tender

Posted on October 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. The grass grows greener beneath a shared umbrella– Tender shoots tremble.

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Fountain

Posted on October 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Water need not praise– its small gods reside in flow through the end of days.

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Where We Are Not

Posted on October 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems A turned head beckons the promise of faraway– Lie again, softly.

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Tender is the Night

Posted on September 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems It is in these moments, when the pumpkin orange glow of the lanterns softens the streets, and the bicycles lined up in rows compose portraits of ordered symmetry, that the night turns in on itself, … Continue reading →

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Transit

Posted on September 20, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. All these arrivals and departures gauged to give edges and form to the prevailing plot twists and turns of our lives– In self-made labyrinths we wander, and lose ourselves repeatedly, if only to encode marked … Continue reading →

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Teem

Posted on September 11, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems In the lotus pond, ripples and respite echo in sync– Romance tenders its wake.

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