![]() "Stereopticon" may serve as an ars poetica of sorts: What we wanted was both words and worlds you could put your foot through. Opposites abound here: lyricism and epistemology, list and sentence, concrete image and abstraction, word and abbreviation, and statement, poetry, and prose. means "compare" & "leads to useful, interesting, or related material that is not, however, essential to an understanding of the meaning.") As fume, from the Latin fumus, Greek thymos: spirit, mind. ![]() The opening of the early poem "The Different Musics," the title of which serves as the first line, exemplifies his more accessible work: come simultaneously across water, accumulating fume, spray, the flex of ripple. Johnson's erudition, obvious throughout his work but especially so in the experimental ARK books, may occasionally intimidate. Indeed, Johnson is at home with opposites, and striking one against another is his chief technique. Intelligence is its foundation, but mystery plays an equal role. To encounter Ronald Johnson's work, whether for the first or the hundredth time, is to slam against the universe and fall back dazed and changed. (1995) After twenty years work, ARK is at last completed and is soon to be published by Living Batch Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico.* * * (1980) I am at present at work on a three-book work titled ARK. (1974) After ten years of writing and walking out there in the trees, I have found, as William Blake knew all along, that the trees are in the head. To write a poem is to begin with words, and is it not where word becomes wor(l)d the primal poem exists? And it is only an arc from there to whirled and "the push of numerous hummingbirds from a superior bush." The architects tell us that large and small are a matter of placement and that galactic and atomic are simply hummingbirds within hummingbirds, etc. A grain of sand if looked at long enough waxes first as glowing, then as large as a moon. Thoreau questioned, "Who placed us with eyes between a microscopic and a telescopic world?" All is built from this position, a solid construct in the apparently invisible, exact words illuminating the ineffable. To see the world in a grain of sand, to see the word in a grain of sand, this is where the poem begins. (1970) I have been primarily influenced by the Black Mountain school of poetry, i.e., Charles Olson out of Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, and Williams. ![]() Manuscript Collection: University of Kansas, Lawrence.Ĭritical Study: In Vort 9 (Bloomington, Indiana). Edinburgh, Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965 Urbana, Illinois, Finial press, 1969* Translator, Sports and Divertissments, by Erik Satie. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1989.Ĭompany Fare. Simple Fare: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Real Food. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1985 revised edition, as The Aficionado's Southwestern Cooking, Albuquerque, Living Batch Press, 1993. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Berkeley, California, North Point Press, 1980.ĪRK 50: Spires 34–50. RADI OS I-IV: San Francisco, Sand Dollar, 1977.ĪRK: The Foundations 1–33. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pomegranate Press, 1973.Įyes and Objects. New York, Norton, 1969.īalloons for Moonless Nights. Urbana, Illinois, Finial Press, 2 vols., 1968. New York, Norton, and London, Longman, 1967. Dunsyre, Lanarkshire, Wild Hawthorn Press, 1966. Woodchester, Gloucestershire, John Furnival, 1966. Bloomington, Indiana University Fine Arts Department, 1966. Highlands, North Carolina, Jargon, 1964.Īssorted Jungles: Rousseau. Publications PoetryĪ Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees. Address: 1490 Prince Street, Berkeley, California 94702, U.S.A. Awards: Inez Boulton award ( Poetry, Chicago), 1964 National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1969, 1974 National Poetry Series prize, 1984. Career: Poet-in-residence, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1970–71, University of Washington, Seattle, 1972 the Wallace Stegner Advanced Writing Workshop, Stanford University, 1991, and Roberta Holloway Poet, University of California at Berkeley, 1994. Education: Columbia University, New York, B.A.
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