Remains to Be Seen: Poems

If you are a fan of Kay Ryan’s epigrammatic style, you will adore Joseph Dorazio’s 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 you told/ to put it back.” This is clever stuff —and lots of fun!

—Linda M. Fischer, poet, author of “Raccoon Aft ernoons”

Remains to be Seen had much to admire in its economy and wit.

—Chapboo...