Name: Tropic Then
SKU: TT202204
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Tropic Then

Poems & Stories
APR. 2023

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Author: Ray DiZazzo Print Edition: ISBN: 978-1-7374465-2-1 Product Details: 8.5 x 8.5; 158 pp. LCCN: 2021915236 SKU: TT202204 Categories: Poetry, Short Stories Tags: climate change, environment, photography

Meet The Author

TROPIC THEN, POEMS & STORIES by Ray DiZazzo explores our natural and urban landscapes with startling clarity, humor, and kindness. Beginning with a visceral and intensely visual journey through the jungles and rainforests of Brazil to the big city of Los Angeles, this collection captures what was once the beauty and spiritual aura surrounding the wilderness of the untouched mysteries of the natural world and connects them to the terrors, mysteries, and consolations of our daily experiences. TROPIC THEN delivers a complete visual experience as you turn the pages and experience thirty beautifully crafted poems and three stories alongside impactful and colorful images such as lush jungles, barren forests, bats, lemurs, tamarins and glass buildings, which altogether contributes to an inspiring, multidimensional, and thought-provoking collection. TROPIC THEN is an accumulation of DiZazzo’s lifetime of wisdom gained from exploring the outdoors and observing the lessons nature teaches us, reminding us we need to preserve and treasure this beautiful earth. TROPIC THEN is a unique, eye-catching book that is sure to be treasured by collectors and poetry enthusiasts alike.

What People Are Saying

Haunting. That’s the word that comes to mind as I reflect on Ray DiZazzo’s latest collection of poems, images and stories, TROPIC THEN. DiZazzo’s poems and accompanying images transcend the page with imagery that describes the inhabitants and activities in what was a vibrant, untouched natural wilderness that explores cold, darkness and even high-rise glass. TROPIC THEN deserves a place close-by on a shelf or coffee table where the reader can revisit it time and again. ~Ned Rodgers

Ray DiZazzo is an evocative writer and poet, and once again, in TROPIC THEN, he adeptly called up visuals of situations we all may have experienced in life. He also included in his writings some beautiful poetry about rain forests with their ephemeral beauty and their necessity to our well-being. ~Susan Van Buren

Tackling the abiding crisis of our era, global warming, Ray DiZazzo’s TROPIC THEN is a hybrid performance of photographic images and keenly witnessing language. The poems move kinetically across their terrain, sliding, leaping; by turns mournful and playful, this is a sumptuous and timely text that bears witness with devotion and precision to earth’s fate in the grip of environmental catastrophe spurred by capitalist-industrialist systems run amok. ~Claire Millikin, author of the poetry collections After Houses (2014), Ransom Street (2019), and Dolls (2021)