Tag Archives: modernism

Moratorium

Posted on September 17, 2025 by John Biscello

I. Beckett spoke about it: the inability to keep quiet. The incapacity to not say stories, not write stories, not place oneself inside stories in which you make and unmake and remake yourself endlessly, an orgy of particles constellating jittery … Continue reading →

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Gertrude Stein

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Matron saint of reps, one word, next, again, the same– Style, the modern rage.   (Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein)

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Three Musicians

Posted on October 27, 2017 by John Biscello

To birth visual sound, mortals shaped into music– painter’s brush with fame.

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Ulysses

Posted on October 23, 2017 by John Biscello

Pen-wielding pirate, charting armchair odyssey– Vision beyond scope.

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Rimbaud

Posted on October 17, 2017 by John Biscello

Seer by disorder, verses raised from a cauldron– the rebirth of cool.    

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