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P.O.N.D
Description Overheard along the shore. I would like to give you a brief description about the poems here and the project from which they emerged.
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SUNDOWNING
Description In Sundowning, John Stanizzi gives us his own world, which we enter via his irresistible voice and words of imaginative power. The book encompasses
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Four Bits: Fifty 50-Word Pieces
Description Four Bits is a clever collection of short pieces by a masterful poet and story-teller. In each of these fifty 50-word prose poems, John
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CHANTS
Description Poetry. A memoir in sonnets. “This is what history sounds like, a song that takes over us until we join the chants and become
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High Tide–Ebb Tide
Description John Stanizzi’s richly imagistic and moving book, High Tide, Ebb Tide, is an inspired exploration of delight and loss. The poems create a rich
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Hallelujah Time!
Description When former New England Poet of the Year John L. Stanizzi decided to compare Bob Marley’s lyrics with the biblical excerpts that had inspired
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After the Bell
Description After the Bell, reads like a Greek play–both a comedy and tragedy, the chorus being the high school body of a small town. The
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Dance Against the Wall
Description John L. Stanizzi’s fourth poetry collection, Dance Against the Wall, will stun readers into a fuller livelihood of the heart. Fearful pain and self-incrimination
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Sleepwalking: Poems
Description This specially prepared and illuminated gift edition is devoted to the bright and dark sides of Night. It begins in the crepuscular “blue hour”
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Ecstasy Among Ghosts
Description These are poems in which the poet’s generously extended Italian family, terrible despair and regenerating love are as salty as the ocean that beats
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Feathers and Bones
Description Reviews The raw beauty of Stanizzi’s words are the result of his innate ability to keep both head and heart in balance, creating poems
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SEE
Description Reviews John L. Stanizzi’s poems show us what it means to pay attention. He directs us to the details that surround us, in nature,
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