Author Description

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. Introduction: Congeries Of Word And Light -- Johnson's New Transcendentalism -- Luminous Juxtapositions: Ezra Pound And Collage -- Visual Integrity In The Book Of The Green Man -- Johnson's Different Musics -- Orphic Apocrypha: Radios And The Found Text -- A Mosaic Of Cosmos: Ark's Bricolage Poetics. By R. Hair. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English