Like an underground river, the astonishing poems of Joseph Ceravolo have nurtured American poetry for fifty years, a presence deeply felt but largely invisible. Collected Poems offers the first full portrait of Ceravolo's aesthetic trajectory, bringing to light the highly original voice that was operating at an increasing remove from the currents of the time. From a poetics associated with Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery to an ever more contemplative, deeply visionary poetics similar in sensibility to Zen and Dante, William Blake and St. John of the Cross, this collection shows how Ceravolo's poetry takes on a direct, quiet lyricism: intensely dedicated to the natural and spiritual life of the individual. As Ron Silliman notes, Ceravolo's later work reveals him to be "one of the most emotionally open, vulnerable and self-knowing poets of his generation." Many new pieces, including the masterful long poem "The Hellgate," are published here for the first time. This volume is a landmark edition for American poetry, and includes an introduction by David Lehman.

Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Ceravolo, Joseph

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

Transmigration Solo was published in 1979 by Toothpaste Press.

Transmigration Solo

Toothpaste Pr

Limied to 1100 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and bound thus. Cover drawing by Mon daVinci. 45+ 1 pages. quarter cloth over paper covered boards.. large 12mo.

Toothpaste Press

Millenium dust

Kulchur Foundation

Winner, 1994 American Award for Literature: Belles Lettres. "[A] valuable contribution to American poetics."--Publishers Weekly

The Green Lake Is Awake

Coffee House Press

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Collected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Transmigration Solo

Transmigration Solo

Millenium dust

The Green Lake Is Awake