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Tag Archives: writing
Matroyshka
He often reflected, while writing, upon himself, writing: reflecting another. Who he was, who he was not. Absence and presence locked in intimate simultaneity, a cogent pairing. Who is this Other, writing? And does he reflect upon me? Why … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged existential, identity, matroyshka, nesting, Prose, speculative, words, writing, written
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The Last Word podcast
“Fascinating insights into the ‘storied and wild mind’ of author, playwright, poet and performer John Biscello with his latest book The Last Furies. Our far-ranging conversation takes us from his home in the “grunge-wonderland” of Taos to lands of fables … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized
Tagged creative life, fable, grok, inspiration, Literary, myth, New Mexico, New York, novel, podcast, process, Santa Fe, Taos, the last word, voice, writing
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City Lights
There’s something wrong with him, my father said. Look at him. Something’s not right. Something’s happened to him. He’s sick. All he thinks about is writing. That’s all he thinks about. He is blue. Even though I wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged between worlds, Blue, city, hollywood, New York, story, storyteller, writing
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The Last Word
It was a treat getting to chat with Carly Newfeld on the Last Word podcast (KSFR, Santa Fe Public Radio), as we talked about wild mind, inspiration, the richness of solitude and silence, and my new novel, The Last Furies, … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized
Tagged Books, inspiration, litrary, New Mexico, New York, podcast, radio, Santa Fe, Taos, voice, writing
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Epilogue
We are ghosts haunting our own lives, understanding on the deepest level that there is no beginning and no end. Because we know that, or in spite of knowing that, we wander, we stalk, we pursue. We give names and … Continue reading
(sic)
She compiled what they called obscure texts into what was then labeled an obscure book. She was vilified. To be obscure, to be knowingly obscure, was, as they saw it, was a veiled threat to innocence and an assault … Continue reading
Room
She was an avid writer of obscure texts. Her obscure texts, which related to identity, language and alienation, rendered the topics as and through compound fractures. She adopted the brokenness and mirrored it obscurely in brokenness. Self/reflecting through heretical … Continue reading
Posted in photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged death, fragment, identity, murder, New York, obscure, room, south korea, story, text, tragedy, voice, woman, writing
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Daybreak
We forget vividly. Absence glares and ghosts inwardly, a brutal slate of charged pixels. We find ourselves shrinking and recoiling in the hospitable siege of light—projecting, wanting, myopic as the day is long. We question ourselves. We are changed. How? … Continue reading
Night Gig
It is extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary that the world can end yet people will go on living. As if they never got the memo: World Over. Perception is an absurd gambit. You never know what you’ll see and what … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged excerpt, fragment, mystery, night, night watchmanm, story, warehouse, worlds last imagined, writing
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John Biscello 