Ronald Johnson (poet)

Ronald Johnson (poet)

Ronald Johnson (1935 – 1998) was an American poet. He was born in Kansas, graduated from Columbia University and lived in New York in the late fifties, wandered around Appalachia and Britain for a number of years, then settled in San Francisco for the next twenty-five years before returning to Kansas, where he died.

At the beginning of his career he was allied with the Black Mountain School's second generation, but then began to experiment with the poetics of the concrete poetry movement.

His major book is the long poem ARK, which he began in 1970 and took him twenty years to write.

References

"To do as Adam did: selected poems of Ronald Johnson" edited with an introduction by Peter O'Leary, Talisman House, Jersey City, 2000.


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