Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "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 who 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.
Synopsis
The Green Lake Is Awake is a compilation of selected poems by Joseph Ceravolo. Edited by Larry Fagin, Kenneth Koch, Charles North, Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, and Paul Violi, this book includes works which initially appeared in Fits of Dawn, Wild Flowers Out of Gas, Spring in This World of Poor Mutts, Transmigration Solo, Millennium Dust, An Anthology of New York Poets, Locus Solus magazine, and Art and Literature magazine. This is the first major book in over twenty-five years to make Ceravolo's work widely available.
Synopsis
Winner, 1994 American Award for Literature: Belles Lettres. "[A] valuable contribution to American poetics."--Publishers Weekly
About the Author
A poet, playwright, and novelist, Koch also published several books about poetry, including Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?. Soft Skull posthumously published The Art of the Possible, Comics Mainly without Pictures in 2004. A professor at Columbia, he won the Bobbitt Library of Congress Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.