Ronald Johnson

"The poet Ronald Johnson (1935-1998) grew up in Kansas but moved to New York as a young man before settling in San Francisco. At the beginning of his career, he was allied primarily with the Black Mountain School, but his work as also rooted in the poetry of Whitman, Blake, and Dante. His early poems owe much to Charles Olson's notions of projective verse, but he then began to experiment with the poetics of the international concrete poetry movement. His major book is the long poem ARK, begun in 1970. To Do As Adam Did includes works from the full range of Johnson's career, including "The Shrubberies," the long poetic sequence he was writing at the time of his death."--BOOK JACKET.

The King's Pleasure - Norah Lofts The Day the World Ended - Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. - Coretta Scott King In This House of Brede - Rumer Godden The Black Camels - Ronald Johnston

A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece, edited by Peter O'Leary. As Guy Davenport comments, "ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, L. 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 for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them.