one more time for the weekend — was thrilled to have the chance to write about Ronald Johnson, connecting him back to some of his early influences & source texts as well as pointing towards some contemporary poets continuing in his idiosyncratic Queer Romantic tradition
Reposted from
The Nation Magazine
Ronald Johnson’s style, according to this friends and critics, was premised on “concentrated seeing”: A mode of poetic observation that slowed the world down and captured both its sound and nature.
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