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Tag Archives: literature
Author Update
In giving my books a renewed lease on life (after my publisher abruptly went out of business last year) I will be independently re-releasing my first two novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale and Raking the Dust, through Amazon in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged author, Books, Broken Land a Brooklyn Tale, children's books, dreams, John Biscello, literature, novel, passion, Prose, Publication, Raking the Dust
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William Faulkner
Moon turning blood-red, tides roiling, writer signs crosses to stand Time’s test, sound and fury bridled through carnal lightning and soil of pen.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged crosses, genius, gothic, John Biscello, lightning, Literary, literature, lyricism, pen, poem, Poetry, script, sound and the fury, southern, time, timeless, william faulkner
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Tropic of Cancer
To lance a staid form, with crab-claws bent on rupture– How masters shift course.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged banned books, Brooklyn, haiku, henry miller, John Biscello, literature, obelisk press, paris, poem, Poetry, tropic of cancer
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Thomas Wolfe
Locomotive-brained, roar and let of angels blood– Tracks vetting heaven.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged angels, haiku, Heaven, John Biscello, Literary, literature, locomotive, of time and the river, poem, Poetry, thomas wolfe, tracks
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Stranger
I pressed against the sun, slow lance of burning, while the other, at a distance, watches– benign indifference the stranger’s claim on his own life passing
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged albert camus, claim, existentialism, indifference, John Biscello, literature, poem, Poetry, the stranger
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Ulysses
Pen-wielding pirate, charting armchair odyssey– Vision beyond scope.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged bookstore, expatriate, james joyce, John Biscello, literature, modernism, paris, poem, Poetry, shakespeare and co, sylvia beach, ulysses
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Steinbeck
Wrath and Discontent, kindling to pen’s holy fire– Love’s labor reformed.
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Tagged grapes of wrath, haiku, John Biscello, john steinbeck, literature, pen, poem, Poetry, shakespeare, winter of our discontent, writer
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Course
Parched voices quicken, defying Time by true course– words ripen slowly.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged dreams, haiku, John Biscello, literature, passion, poem, Poetry, quill, time, words, writing
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Caretake
Every planet orbiting its own despair– Tending growth with care.
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Tagged care, caretaker, haiku, John Biscello, literature, love, planet, poem, Poetry, space, The Little Prince
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John Biscello 