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 ope[...]
The linguistic playfulness and imagistic sensibilities that typify the New York School Poets are revealed in the first definitive collection in twenty-five years of the late poet's work. Original.[...]