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Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230115552

ISBN: 978-1-349-29151-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2015

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Introduction

Hair, Ross

Pages: 1 –22

[Pry into the atom / ricochet against / wall of time,” Ronald Johnson writes in “Form,” one of his last poems, published posthumously in The Shrubberies by Flood Editions in 2001.3 In these lines Johnson gives a lucid summary of a poetic vision that began in his debut collection, A Line of...
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Johnson’s New Transcendentalism

Hair, Ross

Pages: 23 –49

[Out of the New American poets following in the wake of Pound, Moore, and Williams, Johnson is particularly vocal about his Romantic and Transcendental affinities. In a letter written to Dirk Stratton in 1991, Johnson describes his poetic response to the world as “Visionary Romantic” and “New...
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Luminous Detail: Ezra Pound and Collage

Hair, Ross

Pages: 51 –64

[Johnson’s examinations into the “situation of the eye” in A Line of Poetry are just the beginning of his scopic explorations. For all the insights they offer about his “New Transcendentalist” and Orphic visions, these early poems show Johnson tentatively utilizing a collage poetic (indebted to...
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Visual Integrity in The Book of the Green Man

Hair, Ross

Pages: 65 –89

[The Book of the Green Man was published in 1967 under the auspices of Norton’s then poetry editor, Denise Levertov. Published by Norton in the United States and Longmans Green in the United Kingdom, the book’s trans-Atlantic distribution reflects the Green Man’s own mix of British tradition and...
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Johnson’s Different Musics

Hair, Ross

Pages: 91 –121

[Johnson’s poetry changes significantly after The Book of the Green Man. To advance his ocular interests in his next major collection, The Different Musics, Johnson moves away from Pound’s ideogrammic method to pursue a collage mode that draws on the quoting practices of the American composer,...
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Orphic Apocrypha: Radi os and the Found Text

Hair, Ross

Pages: 123 –155

[Between the publication of The Different Musics in 1969 and ARK: The Foundations in 1980, Johnson wrote Radi os, his fifth major book of poetry, which Sand Dollar Press published in 1977. “I titled it RADI OS”, Johnson writes in “Up Till Now,” “to show from the first the method of construction...
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A “mosaic of Cosmos”: ARK’s Bricolage Poetics

Hair, Ross

Pages: 157 –194

[The eschewal of history and overt referencing in Radi os continues in ARK, which, more than any of Johnson’s poetry, most clearly demonstrates his move away from the Poundian collage mode of his earlier work in favor of a poetics informed by bricolage.3 Furthermore, it is in the last two books...
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Conclusion

Hair, Ross

Pages: 195 –203

[Had it existed when he visited Cornwall with Jonathan Williams in 1965, Johnson would have found much to admire in the Eden Project. Located in a barren china clay pit, approximately sixty-five yards deep with a ground space covering approximately 35 acres, the Eden project is testimony that it...

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