To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems

by Ronald Johnson, Peter O'Leary (Editor)

Ronald Johnson was a visionary poet, allied with the Black Mountain school, but his work was also rooted in the poetry of great visionaries like Whitman, Blake, and Dante. His early poetry owes much to Charles Olson's notions of projective verse, but he then immersed himself in the international concrete poetry movement. His major project was ARK, the long poem which he began in 1970 and finished twenty-one years later. It is this book for which he is most famous, but the entire range of his poetry is considered remarkable, assuring that he will have a permanent place in the American literary canon. To Do as Adam Did includes works from his earliest publications to his last and includes a selection from "The Shrubberies, " the poetic sequence he was writing at the time of his death.

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2000

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Reviews

[Gary McDowell · Rating 2 out of 5]

I tried. It's the one-word-per-page stuff I just don't get.

[giuseppe manley · Rating 4 out of 5]

honestly more of a 3.5 but I've been told I should be more generous toward others' poetry before