"Collected Poems proves James Wright to be a truly rare and beautiful poet... [It] has the authority that only the best books have; it forces on us the recognition that Wright is among the masters of our day."
Peter S. Stitt
""Possibly the New York School's biggest secret-because the publicity-shy poet died young-is Joseph Ceravolo. His poetry is wonderful, it is distinctive, in some ways it seems anomalous in the New York context.""
David Lehman
""Ceravolo transcends the canon(his) verse is at once classical and fresh, tender and profound, succinct and expansive, tantalizingly parseable yet divinely ineffable. It would take a lifetime of expert reading to fully appreciate this lifetime of superlative writing; with the long-awaited publication of a collected Ceravolo, America's contemporary poetry readers now have the opportunity to do the
