“Beautiful in its simplicity and bold in its truthfulness… so tempting are the words and alluring the sentiments, that anyone will easily get caught up in these timeless verses.”
--Indies Today

“The author skillfully and eloquently captures emotions that many have experienced and will be able to relate to. The joys and sorrows, challenges, and triumphs of life are highlighted throughout these poems.”
--Readers’ Favorite

“In Deep Craving, it is easy to see the beauty of poetry. The allegories and representations of nature are clear and attached to the feelings of life.”
--Literary Titan

Deep Craving is Joe Giampaolo’s first book of poetry and is a compilation of forty inspiring, romantic poems with a dream-like quality. With each poem, the author celebrates passion or tackles topics of social justice, personal grief, and speculative metaphysics that give us a new way of looking at the universe. With Deep Craving, Joe takes the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions with his raw and vibrant style of poetry and makes no apologies for his dives into the darkest and most remote spheres of the human psyche in search of love, beauty, truth, redemption, compassion and acceptance - Revised April 2025.

-- American Writing Awards, Winner, Contemporary Poetry (November 2023)
-- Literary Titan Book Award, Gold Medal (March 2023)
-- Indies Today, five-star badge, (June 2023)
-- Readers’ Favorite, five-star seal, (June 2023)