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To Do As Adam Did by Ronald Johnson

May 8, 2013 by Erica Mena

The introduction to this book did exactly what any introduction to a selection of poetry should do: made me very, very excited to discover the poetry within. Contextualizing it in the Olsonian projective verse tradition, and then explaining how Johnson’s work evolved into the world-wide concrete poetry movement, before finally emerging into a “big” poem he imagined in the tradition of A, The Cantos, and The Maximus Poems. I was absolutely enticed, and some of my anxiety (that it was going to be […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal • Tags: concrete poetry, experimental poetry, long poems, poetry, ronald johnson, to do as adam did

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