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Joseph Ceravolo--check out the little-known New York School poet


Hey, if you have not yet read this guy, check him out: Joseph Ceravolo--so far, it seems,  known mostly to other poets--he studied with Kenneth Koch and has some of that guy's humor, but he's a lot more nature-oriented than most of the New York School folk, and his wordplay and syntax disruptions recall Tender Buttons by Big Mama Stein. Here's one sample from the posthumous collection The Green Lake is Awake.

SPRING

All I will amount to: knowing
your sound, small bees,
the winter wind
is green


See? simple, odd, beautiful and way cool!