What to do after ARK? What pursues ...

What to do after ARK? What pursues writing a major work? Ronald Johnson began his extended poem ARK in 1970, a bit more than midway in life's journey, and complet it in 1990 Like Zukofsky's "A", ARK is a finished work, not an open-end epic--like Pound's Cantos, Williams's Paterson, or Olson's Maximus Poems--so Johnson faced the issue of what to do one time his masterwork came to a end
The three parts of ARK answer to the call of an imagined day. The Foundations begins at sunrise and ends at noon; The Spires takes us from there to occident and The Ramparts leads us