Ronald Johnson's modernist collage poetry
By: Ross Hair
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230108691
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: congeries of word and light; title: Johnson's new transcendentalism; title: Luminous juxtapositions: Ezra Pound and collage; title: Visual integrity in The book of the green man; title: Johnson's different musics; title: Orphic apocrypha: radios and the found text; title: A mosaic of cosmos: ARK's bricolage poetics.