<P>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.</P>
Tabella dei contenuti
<P>TRANSMITIGATION SOLO (1960 – 1965)<BR>Preface<BR>Lost Words<BR>Life of Freedom<BR>Sleep in Park<BR>Descending the Slope<BR>Feast of Visions<BR>Floating Gardens<BR>The Women<BR>Lights of Childhood<BR>Romance of Awakening<BR>Invisible Autumn<BR>Metaphorical Desert<BR>Celebration<BR>O Heart Uncovered<BR>His Universe Eyes<BR>Pain Songs<BR>Migratory Noon<BR>Contrast<BR>Dinosaurs of Pain<BR>Frozen Lookout<BR>Stolen Away<BR>Starting Up Again<BR>White Sky<BR>Chains of Mountains<BR>Resting<BR>Pastoral<BR>Transmigration Solo<BR>In Full View of Sappho<BR>Spell of Eternity<BR>Note from St. Francis<BR>’WATER: HOW WEATHER FEELS THE COTTON HOTELS'<BR>FITS OF DAWN (1965)<BR>Introduction<BR>BOOK I<BR>Part 1<BR>Part 2<BR>Part 3<BR>BOOK II<BR>Part 1<BR>Part 2<BR>BOOK III<BR>’The green lake is awake…'<BR>The Crocus turn of the gods<BR>A story from the Bushmen<BR>’SEA LEVEL'<BR>WILD FLOWERS OUT OF GAS (1967)<BR>Rain<BR>White Fish in Reeds<BR>In the Desert<BR>The Wind Is Blowing West<BR>Indian Suffering<BR>Warmth<BR>A Song of Autumn<BR>Funny Day<BR>Spring of Work Storm<BR>Autumn-Time, Wind and the Planet Pluto<BR>A Story in Winter<BR>The Plant Is Growing<BR>End<BR>Drunken Winter<BR>Skies<BR>Is It Impossible to Know Where the Impulse Has Originated?<BR>Not a Baby<BR>Wild Provoke of the Endurance Sky<BR>Dangers of the Journey to the Happy Land<BR>In My Crib<BR>Don’t Break It<BR>Spring<BR>Happiness in the Trees<BR>The Book of Wild Flowers<BR>SPRING IN THIS WORLD OF POOR MUTTS (1968)<BR>It Is Morning<BR>Caught in the Swamp<BR>After the Rain<BR>Dusk<BR>Heart Feels the Water<BR>Lighthouse<BR>May<BR>Cool Breeze<BR>Ocean<BR>In the Grass<BR>Ho Ho Ho Caribou<BR>Red Sun<BR>Fill and Illumined<BR>Noise Outside<BR>Winter Song<BR>When the First Tree Blossoms<BR>Passivation<BR>Doubts<BR>Before It Is Destroyed<BR>Nothing<BR>Floods<BR>Sculpture<BR>Passion for the Sky<BR>Road of Trials<BR>Pregnant, I Come<BR>Both Close by Me, Both<BR>Spring in This World of Poor Mutts<BR>Data<BR>Autumn Break<BR>Lonely in the Park<BR>Football<BR>Tripod<BR>I Like to Collapse<BR>Down<BR>Soul in Migration<BR>Polar Flower<BR>Orchard<BR>Struggling<BR>Grow<BR>Risk<BR>Fly<BR>Mountains<BR>The Green Lake Is Awake<BR>THE HELLGATE (1969 – 1975)<BR>Part I—Testament<BR>Part II—Departure<BR>Part III—The Bridge of the Dead<BR>Part VI—Purification<BR>’INTERIOR OF THE POEM’ (1979)<BR>INRI (1979)<BR>O Moon<BR>Alone Swollen<BR>Another World<BR>Question Haunting<BR>Birth Day<BR>Vision<BR>Live Today<BR>Perched<BR>Promontory<BR>Bloodsucker<BR>Rampant God<BR>Earth<BR>Trouble<BR>Experience<BR>Hotel<BR>Space Out<BR>Mistake<BR>Apology<BR>No Help<BR>Freedom<BR>Within<BR>Dangerous Journey<BR>Worse Enemy<BR>Not One<BR>Fable<BR>Bad Ass<BR>Mixture<BR>Broken<BR>Layout<BR>Reborn<BR>Futura<BR>Internal Rays<BR>Apocalypse<BR>Awareness<BR>Macro<BR>Rising Sound<BR>Hard or Soft<BR>Lighting Up<BR>Job<BR>The Car<BR>Beyond Phony<BR>Inside<BR>Unable to Move<BR>Pass Me By<BR>Hard Energy<BR>Motion<BR>Stupor<BR>Cuando Amenecer El Sol<BR>Spring Breeze<BR>Sleeping One<BR>Hunting<BR>This Land<BR>Old Friend Hung<BR>The Gods in Me<BR>Future Landscape<BR>Imaginary Styx<BR>Disasters<BR>End of the World<BR>Reality Printed<BR>Marginal Existence<BR>Footing<BR>Continuum<BR>If I Can’t<BR>River Flooded<BR>The Forest Wetness<BR>Non-spacial<BR>Runs Me Over<BR>Flight<BR>But<BR>To Seed<BR>Manure<BR>A Cave Man’s Dream<BR>Ritual<BR>Basic Heart<BR>The Winds of the Comet<BR>Negative Mountain Peak<BR>Infinite Thunder<BR>Ghost of Spring<BR>MILLENIUM DUST (1982)<BR>WINDS OF THE COMET• Volcano Tears<BR>Bright Sun<BR>Wet Sand<BR>Cross Fire<BR>Savage Nocturne<BR>A Last Song<BR>Spiral<BR>Geological Hymn<BR>Barbaric<BR>The Catskills<BR>Today’s Night<BR>Sleeping by the Rocks<BR>Drunk on the Brain<BR>The Spirit Mercury<BR>Rhythm<BR>White Dwarf<BR>Inside Story<BR>Escape to Atlantis<BR>Winds of the Comet<BR>Survival<BR>Fire of Myself<BR>Body of Earth<BR>Not Afraid of the Dark<BR>Generations of Clouds<BR>Waves Apart<BR>Cooling Galaxy<BR>The Rocket<BR>APOLLO IN THE NIGHT<BR>Storm Breaking Over<BR>Hills<BR>Night Wander<BR>Cold Night Alone<BR>Morning Insults<BR>Conception<BR>Milky Ways<BR>Time on Earth<BR>Instantaneous Takes Time<BR>That’s Where It Is<BR>Projection<BR>Star Song<BR>Earthquake<BR>Voice on My Birthday<BR>Inland<BR>Illuminant before Dawn<BR>Late Birds<BR>Summer Lightning<BR>Perpetual Life<BR>Apollo in the Night<BR>Great Plains<BR>A Railway Stop<BR>Night Birds<BR>MILLENIUM DUST<BR>Longer Trip<BR>Dawn Hunt<BR>Cardinal Conjunction<BR>Sacred and Profane<BR>Ignition of Dawn<BR>Body Weight<BR>Hymn to Earth<BR>Kyrie Eleison<BR>Can’t Sleep<BR>New Realism<BR>Good Friday<BR>Mood<BR>Birth in the Dunes<BR>Shifting Lives<BR>Fever<BR>Tensions<BR>Meadowlands<BR>Gravity Awakening<BR>To Open Regions<BR>Reversals<BR>Unemployment<BR>Full Bloom<BR>Not Really Punishment<BR>Nude Madness<BR>Crazy Death<BR>Park Thoughts<BR>Concealed Wound<BR>Ocean Body<BR>Glass and Steel Structures<BR>The New World<BR>No More People<BR>Brook<BR>Millenium Dust<BR>Montauk<BR>Unfinished Sonnet<BR>Dirty Snow<BR>Tidelands<BR>Final Dimensions<BR>After Image<BR>MAD ANGELS (1976 – 1988)<BR>1976 – 1982<BR>Body Jet<BR>Love Eyes<BR>What It’s Like<BR>Espacio<BR>Haunting Ghosts<BR>Rte 3 into N.Y.<BR>Just at the Beginning of Summer<BR>Scope<BR>Words from a Young Father (Leaving Body)<BR>Requiem<BR>April Already<BR>Assimilation in the Streets of This City<BR>Night Ride<BR>’In one day everything’s green…'<BR>Holy<BR>Railway Box (Deo Te Salve)<BR>Tongues<BR>’The night gets lonely…'<BR>Crazy in the Night<BR>Mayhem<BR>’Taking me away…'<BR>Sub-Scape<BR>Signals<BR>Apology<BR>’Tie one on, tie it on…'<BR>Supplication<BR>Positive Disintegration<BR>Aurora<BR>Lament #1<BR>Lament #2<BR>Asia<BR>Middle of Winter (off the Hudson)<BR>Dirt<BR>Sunset<BR>’It only takes a machine…'<BR>Verses of the Soul Suffering to See God<BR>1983<BR>Rain Forest Ode<BR>Earth So Beautiful<BR>Dominica<BR>Forest Dreams<BR>Over Music<BR>’Hold me light, hold me tight…'<BR>To the Death of a Poet<BR>Long Sonnet<BR>’Where have I got time…'<BR>City Scape<BR>Double Blind Concerto<BR>Guitar Ode<BR>’The first August day is over…'<BR>Sunburn<BR>Linear Ballad<BR>The Amphibian<BR>’Rain cycle, hold my brains…'<BR>’I hear the music from below…'<BR>It’s Only Glue<BR>Builders or Large Moon Rise<BR>’Here’s a traveler in the womb…'<BR>Spirit Matter<BR>Tones<BR>’All winter the…'<BR>Night Flash<BR>’Do a little job…'<BR>1984<BR>’The squirrel leaping frightens…'<BR>’Sunny day with ice…'<BR>Fault<BR>Planet Sonnet<BR>Lament No. 3<BR>Forgive<BR>City<BR>Spring Rise<BR>Grand Jury<BR>Indian Song<BR>Release<BR>Jet Resurrection<BR>Mother Land<BR>Above Clouds Above<BR>Legacy<BR>’The pains of children…'<BR>’Where am I now?…'<BR>Serenade No. 1<BR>Why God Should Know the Gods<BR>War<BR>Silent<BR>’Floating emotions…'<BR>’O ancient Rivers…'<BR>Pre-Christian<BR>Simple Creation I<BR>’Minor eruptions in the air…'<BR>Dead Sea Scrolls<BR>’If I left…'<BR>’The migration flaps…'<BR>Hermit Gambler<BR>Alive<BR>Woods<BR>Dirty Benediction<BR>Elegy<BR>Toxic Wastes<BR>Autumn Torches<BR>Libera Me<BR>’I lean on my bus…'<BR>’How can I disconnect…'<BR>Sonnet<BR>Stay<BR>Thanksgiving Day<BR>’O world without light…'<BR>Street Wise Romantic<BR>Lament #4<BR>A Piece of Glass<BR>’Happy heart that sows the breeze…'<BR>1985<BR>’My intellect seems to breathe…'<BR>If You Loved Me<BR>Love Song<BR>’Seagulls are in from the sea…'<BR>Pages of Storms<BR>Hungry<BR>’Tile floor, open glass…'<BR>Street Journal<BR>’Dried up and dogged…'<BR>Unfinished<BR>Century Sonnet<BR>’I’m not weeping and weeping…'<BR>Freedom<BR>Hospital<BR>’This is not the place I want to be…'<BR>Incantation<BR>Pumping Iron<BR>”Du bist in meinen Blut’…'<BR>Reggae-Mine<BR>Courage<BR>Morning Vespers<BR>’9:01…'<BR>Notoriety<BR>’The streets against their stomachs…'<BR>Night Strokes<BR>BMX<BR>Forecast<BR>Ignorance Strong<BR>Narrative Night<BR>’On a night in a distant country…'<BR>’I am not able to move…'<BR>Sonnet<BR>Hidden Bird<BR>Lament #5<BR>Lethal Sonnet<BR>’Closer and closer to the ground…'<BR>Rain & Wolves Inhabit Me<BR>All at Once<BR>Life Sentence<BR>’There is no way…'<BR>Dragons and Dungeons<BR>Ode Song<BR>Mad Angels<BR>One<BR>The City<BR>Ode<BR>Dream Ode<BR>’Dry leaves, light trees…'<BR>Travelin’ Blue Highway<BR>People’s Republic<BR>’Volcano mud covering exquisite bodies…'<BR>REAL #1<BR>Marketeers Entwined<BR>The Comet Returns<BR>Litanical<BR>The Muscles of Animals<BR>First Snow<BR>Hymn<BR>1986<BR>New Year<BR>’Where are we headed?…'<BR>Melody for Food<BR>Morning Touched<BR>Mid Ocean<BR>Lyric<BR>’Lazy bodies with hidden knives…'<BR>Rifle Shot<BR>Winter<BR>Amor & Psyche<BR>Portrait Painter Realistic<BR>Stampeding Visualizations<BR>’Calm me!…'<BR>’The Great Lakes are rising…'<BR>Darkness Ode<BR>Thoughts<BR>Modern Sorrows<BR>’I walked out. It was raining…'<BR>Now<BR>’Turn me around in your hands, O wind!…'<BR>’I have a bad day today…'<BR>’Looking at beetles and ants…'<BR>’Smoke rises like claws that lock me in…'<BR>Crescent Moon<BR>Reprieve<BR>’The purple plant, leaves thick…'<BR>Hymn to Rain<BR>Bad Thoughts<BR>’I work in a dreamscape of reality…'<BR>Characters<BR>Come Clean<BR>Complaint<BR>Someone<BR>Still Life<BR>Morning<BR>’The best time is when the body…'<BR>’Song birds…'<BR>Nuclear Disaster<BR>’Does loneliness take over the body…'<BR>World War II<BR>’Route 3 and lonely…'<BR>Mass<BR>Discovery<BR>Angelic Meditation<BR>Week Day<BR>Hand Gun<BR>’Between a rock and a hard place…'<BR>’Am I a fool in the temperate sun…'<BR>Subway<BR>’Old world, there are roads in front…'<BR>’Grind away, trumpet, beat away…'<BR>’How could the comet be…'<BR>Breeze<BR>Traffic Sonnet<BR>’Under high tension towers…'<BR>’Hardly a lightening flies overhead…'<BR>Spirit<BR>Blues<BR>Der Wanderer<BR>’My deepness away from you…'<BR>’What is a year ending?…'<BR>’Overpayment, underpayment, Florida lakes…'<BR>Observation<BR>’It is cold, it is cloudy…'<BR>1987<BR>’Consecrate the birds…'<BR>Winter Sonnet<BR>Hymn<BR>A Child Story<BR>’I saw a red tail hawk…'<BR>Mother & Father (Simple)<BR>Hotline for Youth<BR>’As if snow could cleanse…'<BR>Subway Walkman<BR>Today’s Benediction<BR>’It’s the quiet that we…'<BR>’Tundra and deer, liberty and fear…'<BR>Search<BR>Bird<BR>Sun<BR>Notes on the 20th Century Scientist<BR>”Crazy nut, ‘ the girls said…'<BR>Sublimation<BR>Unseen Sonnet<BR>A Young Couple<BR>’Morning breaks…'<BR>OK<BR>Cat of Eternity<BR>Meditation<BR>’The multitudes betray the fallen city…'<BR>Irish Entry<BR>A Call<BR>’Slowly my love…'<BR>An Old Testament<BR>Rain Driven<BR>Koyaanisqatsi<BR>To a Dogwood Tree<BR>Beginner Method<BR>’The morning is warm…'<BR>Kin Pain<BR>Spark<BR>’Dark inside me every day…'<BR>’Take away the hours of creation…'<BR>’Tunnels are closed…'<BR>Perpetual<BR>’Somewhere between a missile…'<BR>’Million dreams, billion nights…'<BR>’My arms are heavy and I feel…'<BR>’Too many times there is…'<BR>’Resurrect, reserve, resound…'<BR>December<BR>’Thank the gods for life…'<BR>Starvation<BR>’Hidden underground in a frame…'<BR>1988<BR>’All the stars will be gone…'<BR>Irish Entry<BR>’Swamps and people live in a lake…'<BR>’Turn the screw, bang the nail…'<BR>’8:27, have a language, that bundles…'<BR>’When you can choke off the under-…'<BR>’A man listens to music next to me…'<BR>’Happy heart that sows the breeze…'<BR>’Song birds enter the morning…'<BR>’When I think of all the fuckin’ hours…'<BR>’When a spirit comes to me…'</P>
Circa l’autore
<P>JOSEPH CERAVOLO (1934–1988) was a poet and civil engineer who was born in Astoria, Queens, and lived in New Jersey. He was the author of six books of poetry and won the first Frank O’Hara Award. ROSEMARY CERAVOLO is an artist, novelist, and art critic. She lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey. PARKER SMATHERS is a poet and editor at Wesleyan University Press. DAVID LEHMAN is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School.</P>