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Diorama
Diorama is a poetic chapbook in two parts. Weaving rituals of self and worldly observation, it manages to be at once sensual, metaphysical and alarmingly real. Basile and Morhardt-Goldstein sculpt their own stories, while their works braid to create a single longer narrative.
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46 pages, Paperback
First published May 16, 2011
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About the author
Lisa Marie Basile
26 books209 followersLisa Marie Basile is a writer based in Jersey City, NJ and NYC. She is the founding editor of Luna Luna Magazine, and she holds an MFA in writing from The New School in New York City.
She is the author of a few books of poetry, including SAINT OF (White Stag Publishing, 2025), Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019—which was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards), Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York, 2012). She’s also written a few non-fiction books, including Light Magic for Dark Times.
Her essays, interviews, poetry, and other works can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Narratively, Bust, Entropy, Lover's Eye Press, Tinderbox Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, Best Small Fictions, and more.
Lisa Marie has read at series including the NYC Poetry Festival, NYC Writers Circle, Memoir Mondays, Cornelia Street Reading Series, Must Love Memoir, Franklin Park Reading Series, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, McNally Jackson, and the KGB Reading Series, among many others. She has also led workshops or spoken in panel discussions at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, Pace University, The Moon Studio, The Author’s Guild, Stanza Books, and more. She co-runs the Brooklyn-based reading series Luna Luna Magazine x Weird Girls.
She is the author of a few books of poetry, including SAINT OF (White Stag Publishing, 2025), Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019—which was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards), Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York, 2012). She’s also written a few non-fiction books, including Light Magic for Dark Times.
Her essays, interviews, poetry, and other works can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Narratively, Bust, Entropy, Lover's Eye Press, Tinderbox Poetry, Best American Experimental Writing, Best Small Fictions, and more.
Lisa Marie has read at series including the NYC Poetry Festival, NYC Writers Circle, Memoir Mondays, Cornelia Street Reading Series, Must Love Memoir, Franklin Park Reading Series, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, McNally Jackson, and the KGB Reading Series, among many others. She has also led workshops or spoken in panel discussions at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, Pace University, The Moon Studio, The Author’s Guild, Stanza Books, and more. She co-runs the Brooklyn-based reading series Luna Luna Magazine x Weird Girls.
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