About the Author:
The first recipient of the Frank O’Hara Award for Poetry, Joseph Ceravolo created several astonishing collections of poetry before his early death. Born in New York, he earned his living as a hydraulics engineer. The Green Lake is Awake is the first major book in over twenty-five years to make Ceravolo’s work widely available.
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Praise for Joseph Ceravolo
“No one writes like Ceravolo: his magical combinations of fragmentation and lyric—sometimes heartbreaking—immediacy. He is one of those pure poets who make you want to sit down and write a thousand poems and simultaneously make you feel nothing you’ve done or will ever do is good enough. His importance to American poetry over the past 30 years is still largely a secret.” —Charles North
“Joseph Ceravolo once told me that he wanted to found a school called Everyday Life and it would have courses on the seasons. His extreme cubist poetry has become this school, where he shows the relations between grammar and love. . . . He is a refined and refining fire, and his wonderful structures were built to last.” —David Shapiro
