Angelita Biscotti Angelita Biscotti i(21721133 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 SORRY IM JUST A BASIC HYSTERIC!!!!!!!! a Love & Farewell Letter to the Clyde Hotel on Cardigan. i "hysteria might be an intolerance for the messiness of gender", Angelita Biscotti , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , no. 109 2023;
1 The Stars Are Posing, No They’re Not i "all my dreams have Sagittarius midtones.", Angelita Biscotti , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , June no. 26 2022;
1 & Melancholia i ",,,,,,,,,,\\\\\\\\3333whatarethe", Angelita Biscotti , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 12 no. 1 2022; (p. 28-29)
1 Open Relations Angelita Biscotti , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;

'‘What's open about an open relationship?’ Justin Clemens asked during his reading at the launch of The Open in 2021. This reminds me of an idea Slavoj Žižek touches on in The Metastases of Enjoyment (1994). The point was not about open relationships but about BDSM partnerships, where he writes: ‘What is of crucial importance here is the total self-externalisation of the masochist's most intimate passion: the most intimate desires become objects of contract and composed negotiation.’ Agreements that accompany erotic power games—as well as open relationships and relationships that broadly fall into the ‘consensual non-monogamy’ category—are often worked out with a microscopic scrutiny reserved for the pre-nuptial. What appears open is not always so. The low Australian skylines, the way earth and sky appear to embrace and melt into each other—the appearance of innocent and natural co-existence belies the ongoing reality of settler-colonial violence. Clemens’s provocation is a suitable apéritif for the poetic-philosophical experience that is Lucy Van's The Open.' (Introduction) 

1 Angelita Biscotti Reviews TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada Angelita Biscotti , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 June no. 105 2022;

— Review of Take Care Eunice Andrada , 2021 selected work poetry

'‘The actor is a heart athlete,’ Antonin Artaud wrote in 1958. He was writing about theatre, but I wonder if the same could be said of the poet. ‘To arrive at the emotions through their powers instead of regarding them as pure extraction, confers a mastery on an actor equal to a true healer’s. A crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. To use emotions the same way a boxer uses muscles. To know there is a physical outlet for the soul. (93 – 95).'  (Introduction)

1 Accepting the Gift, Doing the Work : Angelita Biscotti Interviews Sara M Saleh Angelita Biscotti (interviewer), 2022 single work interview
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;

'Catching COVID-19 didn’t stop Sara Saleh from showing up to this discussion about poetry, place, and the place of poetry in the present moment. The exchange took place between 21 – 25 January 2022, quickly expanding into a 7,000-word conversation. The below interview reveals a condensed version of this chat without removing the essence of our exchanges.'  (Introduction)

1 On the Fantasy Work That Makes Life Bearable Angelita Biscotti , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 241 2020; (p. 49-56)
'Ray Filar writes that sex work is service work, that capitalism dangles money and celebrity as gains one can make in the field of 'erotic professionalism'. This illusory and elusive promise of autonomy, wealth and desirability elides the precarity and complexity of how race, gender, ability, class, and technological advances facilitate disparities in sex workers' experiences and expectations.' (Introduction)
 
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