From: JOEL LEWIS <104047.2175@COMPUSERVE.COM 
 Subject:      Re: Joseph Ceravolo
 
 Actually a number of Ceravolo books are availible & in print. Gotham Books
 certainly has copies of Millennium Dust, Transmigration Solo can still be had
 from Coffeehouse, INRI is still availible from Swollen Magpie (which Charles
 North, Paul Violi,etc) and, possibly, Spring in this World of Poor Mutts can be
 obtaoined thru Ron Padgett(he was giving away copies at Joe's St. mark's
 memorial. Only the very early chabooks are hard to find.
 
 I knew Joe for a number of years and he strikes me as the great religous
poet of our time. The NY School connection is accidental. There is still much in
 manuscript & a great long poem called Hell Gate of which there is a tape of Joe
 reading it. I'm amazed that there are about 800 hits on his web site -- I don't
 think any of his books sold that many copies. I still remember him at a
festivak honoring Williams, reading after Daniel Halpern. He read each poem twice "to
 help you understand it", he said, but he could have read them 60 times to an
 audience anticiapting more mewling melodramas of the singular self.