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Collected Poems planned to be published December 2012 by Wesleyan University Press.
This 500 page collection will feature highly anticipated and previously unpublished work including "THE HELLGATE" and "MAD ANGELS" as well as three other epic poems.
In addition to previously unpublished work, Collected Poems will include all of Joe's previously published books including: TRANSMIGRATION SOLO, SPRING IN THIS WORLD OF POOR MUTTS, INRI, MILLENIUM DUST and the extremely rare FITS OF DAWN and WILD FLOWERS OUT OF GAS.
More information about Joseph Ceravolo's Collected Poems, including the book's cover and a complete table of contents, can be found at University Press of New England.
In 1959, Joseph Ceravolo had just graduated City College in New York City with a degree in Civil Engineering. He was taking a poetry workshop taught by Kenneth Koch at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, and had begun writing poetry in 1957 while serving in Europe with the US Army. It was while he was stationed in the German Alps on overnight guard duty that he wrote his first poems.
Poetry was a primary love of Joe's and a significant part of his everyday life. Whether you read his work and laugh or your read it and weep, Joseph Ceravolo's poems remain timeless and relevant in the world of modern poetry.
Joseph Ceravolo was born April 22, 1934 in Astoria, Queens. He was the first son of immigrant parents from Calabria, Italy. He died on September 4, 1988.
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