Radi os by ronald johnson7/28/2023 From A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees (1964) through his long poem entitled “ARK” (1996) and beyond, he wrote visionary poetry of minute observation and striking formal invention. Ronald Johnson (1935-1998) was an American poet. publishing Radi os in 1977, his poem-by-excision of Miltons Paradise Lost. He lives in Berwyn, Illinois and teaches at the School of the Art Institute and for the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. Title The Book of the Green Man Author(s)/Editor(s) Ronald Johnson Publisher. As Ronald Johnson’s literary executor, he has edited several collections of Johnson’s work, including The Shrubberies (2001) and Radi Os (2005). He is the author of the critical study Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness (2002). Peter O’Leary’s recent books of poetry include The Phosphorescence of Thought (2012), Luminous Epinoia (2010), Depth Theology (2006), and Watchfulness (2001). It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them.”-Guy Davenport Frank Baum, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, L. “ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. Recording of the group reading of ARK selections: (in order) Nick Gulig, Alexis Almeida, Graham Foust, Sam Knights, HR Hegnauer, Robert Snyderman, Oren Silverman, Serena Chopra, Peter O’Leary, Ronald Johnson. as I approached this project are The Ground I Stand on Is Not My Ground by Collier Nogues, Radi os by Ronald Johnson, and Voyager by Srikanth Reddy. Counterpath hosted poet, scholar, and editor Peter O’Leary for a talk and reading from the new edition of Ronald Johnson’s ARK (Flood Editions, 2013).
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