Joseph Dorazio: 5 books

Along with previously selected works, prize-winning poet Joseph Dorazio presents twenty-six new poems in As Is, a unique collection that explores the wide spectrum of the human experience, from the search for vintage treasures to archeological myths tied to global warming. Dorazio examines...

Joseph Dorazio’s literary debut, Poems of the Fifth Sun, was a finalist in Gertrude Press’s Poetry Chapbook competition.

Calendariums poems revel in juxtaposing seasonal images that are at once accessible and transformational. What may appear on first glance as traditional images of the seasons take us, on careful reading, to a deeper apprehension of time itself and its impermanence. New Years resolutions of January;...

“Calendarium’s poems revel in juxtaposing seasonal images that are at once accessible and transformational. What may appear on first glance as traditional images of the seasons take us, on careful reading, to a deeper apprehension of time itself and its impermanence. New Year’s resolutions of...

If you are a fan of Kay Ryans epigrammatic style, you will adore Joseph Dorazios poetry. A self-styled miniaturist, he can take a word or a phrase and turn it on its head, using internal rhyme to bolster his serio-comic intent. Of Slack he profers: Often/ you are asked to/ take it up, seldom/ are...