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[Bnb0k.Ebook] ARK Pdf Free BNb0k [Library ebook] ARK Online [BNb0k.ebook] ARK Pdf Free Ronald Johnson DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #1759781 in Books 2013-11-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.75 x 6.25 x 1.00l, .0 #File Name: 0983889368336 pages | File size: 72.Mb Ronald Johnson : ARK before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised ARK: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Architectural Masterpiece of late ModernismBy James CookThis is a late Modernist masterpiece. Johnson, defying Pound's definition of an epic poem as a 'poem including history', weaves his poem out of various attentions: the science development of the human eye, science-fiction, the music of the cosmos, and pure sound itself, among other elements. He has successfully married the expansive projectivist poetics of Charles Olson's Maximus with the spare, lean and architectural music of Louis Zukofsky, and in the process created something wholly original. Architecture itself is another guiding principle, specifically the 'outsider art' of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers and Le Palais ideal of Ferdinand Cheval. A must for all lovers of great poetry.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One of The Great Books of the Twentieth CenturyBy DirkOne of the great long poems of the 20th Century. I'm very happy to see it back in print. It isn't easy, but it's rewarding and deserves to be more widely known.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Jaime BarkerA perfect long poem. Poetry. A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece, edited by Peter O'Leary."ARK is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision. It is a late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, L. Frank Baum, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them."—Guy Davenport .com Ronald Johnson's rewarding and difficult masterpiece ARK begins with a sparrow's pinwheeled view of the sun rising and the stars fading. Johnson uses the bird, "able to see the seed beneath its bill--and at the same instant the hawk descending," as a point of departure for 99 intertwined lyric constructions of eye, ear, and mind--a tangible hymn to beauty. The poem's concrete arrangement and nonce forms demand a reader's full attention; like Milton's heavily Latinate rhetoric in Paradise Lost, Johnson's style is as disorienting as it is rewarding. One becomes a carpenter erecting the Ark's foundations, spires, and ramparts. This is a singular work of art, though it has roots in the esoteric American tradition that spawned Henry Thoreau, Charles Ives, and folk artist-architects such as James Hampton and Sam Rodia, whose Watts Towers adorn the book's cover. Johnson explains in an introduction that ARK is "literally an architecture ... fitted together with shards of language, in a kind of cement of music." Earlier books like Valley of the Many Colored Grasses and Book of the Green Man only hint at the grand scheme of ARK, which was originally published as three separate books beginning in 1980. His patience in its writing comes across in the way each line is a formal challenge charged with possibility. He himself recalls the universe of the book's epigraph, from Edward Dahlberg: "The universe is a slumbering animal that has visions." Johnson worked the last years of his life in a Topeka, Kansas, public garden and died at 61 from brain cancer in early 1998, but the continuous, active presence of his voice in ARK ensures that he will be remembered for decades to come. --Edward SkoogFrom the PublisherPublished by Living Batch Press Distributed by The University of New Mexico PressAbout the AuthorRonald Johnson (1935-1998) was an American poet. From A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees (1964) through his long poem entitled "ARK" (1996) and beyond, he wrote visionary poetry of minute observation and striking formal invention. [BNb0k.ebook] ARK By Ronald Johnson PDF [BNb0k.ebook] ARK By Ronald Johnson Epub [BNb0k.ebook] ARK By Ronald Johnson Ebook [BNb0k.ebook] ARK By Ronald Johnson Rar [BNb0k.ebook] ARK By Ronald Johnson Zip [BNb0k.ebook] ARK By Ronald Johnson Read Online.
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