Published in 1994, 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, the 131 page 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, Art and Literature magazine.

"I knew Joseph Ceravolo and his poems for twenty-five years. He would send me a poem like "How Weather Feels the Cotton Hotels," and, every time, I'd gasp. It was wonderful and I didn't know how he had done it. It faded like the mirage of a gorgeous building; then, as soon as I reread it, it was there again. What was Ceravolo doing? Whatever it was, somehow in four lines he brought me intense, clear feelings of wasps on earthenware, of nights, of feelings wasps must have, that clay pots must have. A new-or, rather, old but unlighted-part of my experience was given light. His poems were a sort of amazing perceptual archeology."

-Kenneth Koch*

The Green Lake is Awake front cover.

Sample poems from The Green Lake is Awake.

The Green Lake is Awake back cover.