That is devastating news. What work his was, its inventiveness, grace,
music, wit, and sheer thought as well as, yes, its connectedness to who and
what we are and how. Attentive to possibility.
That he is so little read is, as Keston put it, yes, intimations of a crisis
in context per se.
Peter
At 11:18 AM 3/5/98 -0400, Pierre Joris wrote:
>I've just gotten this message from Robert Creeley:
>
>> I've just had the sad word from Jodi Panula, Ronald Johnson's sister,
>that he died >Wednesday evening, March 4th, in Topeka, Kansas from the
>effects of his cancer.
>>I'd be grateful if you can get the information out to people with some
>>quick emphasis upon ARK and his significance to us all. Many thanks.
>
>I know the many devoted readers and admirers of Ronald Johnson's work on
>the Poetics List -- and I count myself as one of them -- will be detailing
>the remarkable and lasting achievement of Johnson's work, culminating in
>the University of New Mexico publication of ARK.
>
>
> Literally, a flowing: a form-take-hand
> -with-form
> (That Which Faseneth Us)
> pillar to pillar the great dance arch itself through all that
> is or was or will be, 3/4 time. This will be a glade
> at the head of one stream
>and a resonant gnomon before it will stretch regions of signaling
> gnat-like resiliencies in the atmosphere
> of where we are --
> or were.
> Or will be, when the mingled frame of mind
> of man is celebration
>
> Gates, which separate the wings
> of tiered ilex, open
> in caverns of atoms passing from one into another's zenith
> of periodic movement, vast helicoidal shift:
> a vaulting of arteries
> beating their heads against the dark.
>
> This is the body of light.
>
>
>[from BEAM 30, The Garden]
>
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