http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/the-shrubberies/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:38:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/the-shrubberies/#comment-2010 Emily Warn Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:04:02 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=567#comment-2010 Rigoberto, Don't forget one of his wonderful earlier books THE BOOK OF THE GREEN MAN, all of which can be found online here: <a href="http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/rjohnson/rj-gm-1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/rjohnson/rj-gm-1.htm</a> A record of his year-long tromp through the Lake District, it also tours through the work Wordsworth, Smart, Thoreau, and other embodiments of the myth of the Green Man in literature. Emily Rigoberto,
Don’t forget one of his wonderful earlier books THE BOOK OF THE GREEN MAN, all of which can be found online here:
http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/rjohnson/rj-gm-1.htm
A record of his year-long tromp through the Lake District, it also tours through the work Wordsworth, Smart, Thoreau, and other embodiments of the myth of the Green Man in literature.
Emily

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/the-shrubberies/#comment-2009 Rigoberto Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:13:53 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=567#comment-2009 Thank you, Peter. I'm excited that these books will become available once again. Johnson has much to teach us about the inventiveness of poetry. He's already made his way into my college syllabus next year! Thank you, Peter. I’m excited that these books will become available once again. Johnson has much to teach us about the inventiveness of poetry. He’s already made his way into my college syllabus next year!

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/the-shrubberies/#comment-2008 Peter O'Leary Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:10:17 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=567#comment-2008 Rigoberto! Thanks for the mention. I love that this book, six+ years after its publication, continues to find new readers. I wanted to mention that Flood Editions has two Ronald Johnson titles planned. <i>The Outworks</i> will be published shortly; it includes "Block to Be Arranged in a Pyramid," as well as some additional later work falling in between the completion of in the early 1990s & the work included in <i>The Shrubberies</i>. Speaking of <i>ARK</i>, Flood plans to republish Johnson's masterpiece in a corrected edition in the next few years. It's likely clear that Flood is committed for the present to keeping Johnson's work in print. Stay tuned! The first poem that Don mentions in RJ's <i>Poetry</i> bibliography was his first ever magazine publication in a terrific "long poem" double ish that also featured, if I remember correctly, Olson, Bishop, Berryman, Levertov, Roethke, Snyder, Duncan, & Zukofsky, among others. Auspicious beginning! Cheers! Rigoberto!
Thanks for the mention. I love that this book, six+ years after its publication, continues to find new readers.
I wanted to mention that Flood Editions has two Ronald Johnson titles planned. The Outworks will be published shortly; it includes “Block to Be Arranged in a Pyramid,” as well as some additional later work falling in between the completion of in the early 1990s & the work included in The Shrubberies.
Speaking of ARK, Flood plans to republish Johnson’s masterpiece in a corrected edition in the next few years.
It’s likely clear that Flood is committed for the present to keeping Johnson’s work in print. Stay tuned!
The first poem that Don mentions in RJ’s Poetry bibliography was his first ever magazine publication in a terrific “long poem” double ish that also featured, if I remember correctly, Olson, Bishop, Berryman, Levertov, Roethke, Snyder, Duncan, & Zukofsky, among others. Auspicious beginning!
Cheers!

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/the-shrubberies/#comment-5110 Peter O'Leary Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:10:17 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=567#comment-5110 Rigoberto! Thanks for the mention. I love that this book, six+ years after its publication, continues to find new readers. I wanted to mention that Flood Editions has two Ronald Johnson titles planned. <i>The Outworks</i> will be published shortly; it includes "Block to Be Arranged in a Pyramid," as well as some additional later work falling in between the completion of in the early 1990s & the work included in <i>The Shrubberies</i>. Speaking of <i>ARK</i>, Flood plans to republish Johnson's masterpiece in a corrected edition in the next few years. It's likely clear that Flood is committed for the present to keeping Johnson's work in print. Stay tuned! The first poem that Don mentions in RJ's <i>Poetry</i> bibliography was his first ever magazine publication in a terrific "long poem" double ish that also featured, if I remember correctly, Olson, Bishop, Berryman, Levertov, Roethke, Snyder, Duncan, & Zukofsky, among others. Auspicious beginning! Cheers! Rigoberto!
Thanks for the mention. I love that this book, six+ years after its publication, continues to find new readers.
I wanted to mention that Flood Editions has two Ronald Johnson titles planned. The Outworks will be published shortly; it includes “Block to Be Arranged in a Pyramid,” as well as some additional later work falling in between the completion of in the early 1990s & the work included in The Shrubberies.
Speaking of ARK, Flood plans to republish Johnson’s masterpiece in a corrected edition in the next few years.
It’s likely clear that Flood is committed for the present to keeping Johnson’s work in print. Stay tuned!
The first poem that Don mentions in RJ’s Poetry bibliography was his first ever magazine publication in a terrific “long poem” double ish that also featured, if I remember correctly, Olson, Bishop, Berryman, Levertov, Roethke, Snyder, Duncan, & Zukofsky, among others. Auspicious beginning!
Cheers!

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/12/the-shrubberies/#comment-2007 Don Share Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:14:31 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=567#comment-2007 Another great shout-out, Rigoberto! I was recently amazed to find out what a great writer on <i>cooking</i> Johnson also was! Details in the interview about RJ with Peter O'Leary <a href="http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue03/peter_oleary_interview.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Trainspotters might like to know that Johnson's poems appeared in <i>Poetry</i> thusly: Sweet Orange, Sour, Osage & Mock-Orange (October 1963) Four Orphic Poems (July 1964) From The Book of the Green Man (April 1965) Letters to Walt Whitman (June 1966) The Unfoldings (November 1968) Poem ("Out from this floor...") (June 1972) The Core (June 1972) ... and that our colleagues at <i>Chicago Review</i> have published Book V of <i>Radi os</i>, "The Book of Adam," with an accompanying piece by Peter O'Leary in their Autumn 2007 issue. Another great shout-out, Rigoberto!
I was recently amazed to find out what a great writer on cooking Johnson also was! Details in the interview about RJ with Peter O’Leary here.
Trainspotters might like to know that Johnson’s poems appeared in Poetry thusly:
Sweet Orange, Sour, Osage & Mock-Orange (October 1963)
Four Orphic Poems (July 1964)
From The Book of the Green Man (April 1965)
Letters to Walt Whitman (June 1966)
The Unfoldings (November 1968)
Poem (”Out from this floor…”) (June 1972)
The Core (June 1972)
… and that our colleagues at Chicago Review have published Book V of Radi os, “The Book of Adam,” with an accompanying piece by Peter O’Leary in their Autumn 2007 issue.

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