From: Mark Wallace <mdw@GWIS2.CIRC.GWU.EDU 
 Subject:      Joseph Ceravolo

 
 Jordan Davis pointed out several days ago that a new Joseph Ceravolo
 website  has gone up, courtesy of his wife and his son. The samples there
 are very interesting, and I can only wish that more was available. I
 would have wanted to download the whole thing!
 
 I'm wondering about other takes on Ceravolo's work. Although I think of
 him mainly in a New York school context, the syntax of his work seems
 more odd and torqued than is usual in that context, except perhaps for
 O'Hara at his most wonderfully frantic. But Ceravolo's syntax seems more
 distorted, although only at key instants--it seems almost a
 language poetry-like attempt to foreground syntax in a way that disrupts
 what appears to be a straightforward and simple meditation. Those
 distortions add a new element to the quiet meditation that his work often
 presents--one can't quite get back of the language to the world out
 there, and the notion of meditation itself therefore gets called into
 question.
 
 Most of his books are long out of print--an under construction section of
 the website says it will later feature locations at which all of
 Ceravolo's work can be found. Anybody have any further input on where
 those long-lost books can be found?
 
 mark wallace