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Lisa Marie Basile Poet and Fiction Writer: Cesar Vallejo meets Young American Girl

Lisa Marie Basile
Lisa Marie Basile
Brooklyn, New York
Member since: Oct, 2009
Last login: 11/18/2009
Last update : 11/18/2009
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About Me

  • Lisa Marie Basile is founder of Caper Literary Journal. Her work has been featured in several magazines, newspapers, online publications (more information here) and found in online literary journals, including Vox Poetica, Aphros Literary Journal, Feel The Word ...

LisaMarieBasile's Blog

  • NaNoWriMo, The Devil's Carriage Toward Heaven

    November 18, 2009

    • As sure as death, writers have those bloodied moments – frenzied passings of time made up of the abandonment of passion and craft for fear and self-consciousness. But there is Good, and some of us have seen the Good. People are willing to connect, to truly read and listen and think about the words we’re saying at once so eagerly and timidly. The words are Gods and Devils: they elevate us and ...
  • Dancing With The Dead: New York to New Mexico

    October 29, 2009

    • During a visit to Mesilla, New Mexico earlier this month, I stood in the old Plaza, a national landmark where Apache Raiders came and went, where the Gadsen Purchase took place and where calaveras dance into the night celebrating Dia De Los Muertos. We were but a blink away from Juarez, and the air smelled of Mexico: mezcal and chile and the glimmer of a culture built on the border of not only ...

Comments I've Written

  • Jazz Inspiration

    I think this is wonderful! I'm always inspired by music and find that jazz allows me think and feel in a much different manner.
  • This is wonderful. I really

    This is wonderful.
  • New Mexico: Amazing

    This was spectacular. I just visited New Mexico and wrote my (first) blog all about Dia De Los Muertos in Las Cruces/Mesilla.
  • Surely!

    Yes, it was definitely interesting/beautiful/creepy — all the things of Halloween! I will continue reading (and listening.) Lisa
  • Happy Halloween!

    Cliff, I have to admit having a complete love for this. Not only is Byron wonderful, your work on Garageband is eerie and great.

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