Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)

Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies, especially the discontinuities commonly seen to exist between nineteenth-century Romantic and twentieth-century modernist literary forms. Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry is the first monograph to address the legacy of the American poet, Ronald Johnson (1935-1998). Drawing upon never before seen archival material, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, Ross Hair assesses Johnson's work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies, especially the discontinuities commonly seen to exist between nineteenth-century Romantic and twentieth-century modernist literary forms Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-22 Johnson’s New Transcendentalism....Pages 23-49 Luminous Detail: Ezra Pound and Collage....Pages 51-64 Visual Integrity in The Book of the Green Man ....Pages 65-89 Johnson’s Different Musics....Pages 91-121 Orphic Apocrypha: Radi os and the Found Text....Pages 123-155 A “mosaic of Cosmos”: ARK’s Bricolage Poetics....Pages 157-194 Conclusion....Pages 195-203 Back Matter....Pages 205-256