I enumerate Ronald Johnson as one o...

I enumerate Ronald Johnson as one of the defining comrades of my own imagined company of author of poemss ageless and yet insistently specific to all one's life might appear to be here and now. The self-same title of his major in extent poem cycle, ARK--with its determining echoe its understandings of a contiguous, innumerable occurrence its measure of heart and time, all the wondrous, intimate, particularizing reflection and record--proposes the character of this work I with equal reason value. Ronald Johnson is greatest in quantity close to Zukofsky and Robert Duncan in this feeling that his world becomes the couple inside and outside, the one and the other within and ...