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Tag Archives: Literary
Review of The Girl
Review of Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl, appearing in Riot Material. “The Girl is set in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the Depression, with much of its action centered in a speakeasy known as The German Village. This is where the protagonist, a … Continue reading
Posted in Press, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Depression, John Biscello, Literary, Meridel Le Sueur, Minnesota, Prose, Review, riot material, St. Paul, The Girl
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Pledge
It is like stalking thin, haunted air, and forever coming up empty, she, the dark lady, a shallow fret, the one who will surely bring you to grief. This you knew, and craved, as soon as you laid eyes on … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged dark lady, haunt, John Biscello, Literary, obsession, pledge, poem, Poetry, wound
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Turn of the Screw
Is this what Adam and Eve felt like, outcasts in their own backyard? In this wasteland would you just screw and screw and screw, the desperate conjugation of the lonely and damned, trying to screw your way out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged adam and eve, badlands, bisti badlands, eden, John Biscello, Literary, New Mexico, poem, Poetry
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Childhood’s Edge
Excerpt from Nocturne Variations: The show has ended and we are now in the upstairs room at Tabanid, the room known as the Attic. It is sort of a private clubhouse, a vice den with no regard for … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged book, excerpt, gothic, heather ross, John Biscello, Literary, nocturne variations, novel, photo, Surrealism
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Shadows on Ice
Excerpt from Nocturne Variations. They were spinning slowly, ever so slowly. Do you want to go faster, Piers reached down for the dial. I can make us go faster. No, Anya smiled. I like the speed. We’re … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged albino, club, fairy, ice, John Biscello, Literary, los angeles, nocturne variations, novel, romance, Surrealism
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The Well
Excerpt from Nocturne Variations When Piers was six she fell into a well. The well was abandoned and no longer had any water in it. If there would have been water in it, Piers would have drowned. Sometimes she’d imagine … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged childhood, excerpt, fox, John Biscello, Literary, nocturne variations, novel, piers, Prose, Surrealism, well
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No Man’s Brooklyn
I have started working on my new novel: No Man’s Brooklyn. A return to the bones of childhood, and to tangled roots. A return to the gritty lore of Bensonhurst.
Posted in Press, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, family, Italian-American, John Biscello, Literary, no man's brooklyn, novel, preview
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Digging for Air
There was always plenty of tomorrow-talk, bright ribbons of noise amounting to nothing. What we would do, where we would go, how we’d become this or that. We erected fragile monuments to ourselves, and expected others to pay their respects, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, John Biscello, Literary, poem, Prose, street corner, urban
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Childhood’s End?
Childhood, as a static port or fixed constellation, remains an ongoing historical fiction, in which small deaths, consigned to witnesses, inevitably breed the shadows of regeneration.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged childhood, constellation, John Biscello, Literary, Poetry, shadows
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Garden
In seeding the bones fragile means to nuptial growth among mortal remains.
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bones, Egon Schiele, garden, growth, haiku, John Biscello, Literary, Poetry, woman
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