Bibliography
by Eric Murphy Selinger, DePaul University

Ronald Johnson

BOOKS
A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees (Highlands, NC: Jargon Press, 1964); most poems republished as the first section of Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969)

Sports & Divertissements (translations from Erik Satie), (Dunsyre, Scotland: Wild Hawthorne Press, 1965; second edition, Urbana, IL: Finial Press, 1969);

Assorted Jungles: Rousseau (limited edition, San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1966; reprinted in Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses)

GORSE/GOOSE/ROSE and Other Poems (Bloomington, Indiana: Fine Arts Dept., Indiana University, 1966); Sun Flowers (England: John Furnival, 1966); Io and the Ox-Eye Daisy (Dunsyre, Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1965; anthologized in This Book is a Movie: An Exhibition of Language Art and Visual Poetry, Jerry G. Bowles and Tony Russell, eds., New York: Dell, 1971)

The Book of the Green Man (New York: W.W. Norton, 1967; London: Longmans Green, 1967)

The Round Earth on Flat Paper (limited edition, Urbana, IL: Finial Press, 1968)

Reading 1 and Reading 2 (limited edition, Urbana, IL: Finial Press, 1968)

Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses (New York: W. W. Norton, 1969)

Balloons for Moonless Nights (limited edition, Urbana, IL: Finial Press, 1969)

The Spirit Walks, The Rocks Will Talk (translations from Le Facteur Cheval and Raymond Isidore) (Highlands, NC: Jargon Press, 1969)

Songs of the Earth (San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem Press, 1970; anthologized in An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, Emmett Williams, ed., New York: Something Else Press, 1967)

Maze / Mane / Wane (Pomegranate Press, 1973)

Eyes & Objects (Highlands, NC: Jargon Press, 1976; ten poems reprinted in the journal Screens and Tasted Parallels 1, 1989: 4-12)

RADI OS I-IV (Berkeley: Sand Dollar Press, 1977)

ARK: The Foundations (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1980)

ARK 50 (New York: Dutton, 1984)

ARK (Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch, forthcoming)

Collected Short and Early Poems (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, forthcoming)

OTHER
"Introduction" to Presences of Mind: The Collected Books of Jack Sharpless, Frankfort, Ky. : Gnomon Press, 1989.

SELECTED PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS--UNCOLLECTED
The Eye and The Ear [Early versions of ARK: The Foundations, Beams 4 and 7], Parnassus 1 (1), Fall / Winter 1972: 21-24; reprinted in Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry in Review, ed. by Herbert Leibowitz (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994): 275-278

Charles Ives: Two Eyes, Two Ears, Parnassus 3 (2), Spring / Summer 1975: 345-349

"On Looking Up The Pyramid is a Pure Crystal in Webster" [Review of John Taggart, The Pyramid is a Pure Crystal], Parnassus 3 (2), Spring / Summer 1975: 147-152

Two Poems: Wor(l)ds 20, Jan 1st and Wor(l)ds 23 [early version of ARK: Beam 16, The Voices and a second, unincorporated poem], The Iowa Review 6 (3-4), Summer / Fall, 1975: 101-103

"A Fairy Tale for Robert Duncan", Parnassus 5 (1), Fall / Winter 1976, 260-262

"The Italics are Guy Davenports" [Essay on Guy Davenport's Tatlin!], Vort 3 (3), 1976: 42-45]

"Persistent Light Upon the Inviolably Forever Other" [Essay on Guy Davenport's Flowers and Leaves], Vort 3 (3), 1976: 38-42; Wor(l)ds 25-27 [early version of ARK: Beams 21-23, the Song of Orpheus], in Vort 3 (3), 1976: 86-99

In Memoriam L. Z., L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1 (4), August 1978; reprinted in Paideuma 7 (3), 1978: 382

Jonathan Williams, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 5: American Poets Since World War II, part 2: L-Z, Donald J. Greiner, ed. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1980): 406-409

"ARK 53, The Balanchine Spire," Conjunctions 8, 1985: 43-45

"A Flag for Bunting," [poem], Conjunctions 8, 1985: 197

"For R.D." [poem], Sagetrieb 4 (2-3), 1985: 15

"Nearly Twenty Questions" [An interview of and conversation with Jonathan Williams], Conjunctions 7, 1985: 225-238

"The Planting of the Rod of Aaron," [account of composition of ARK 44, including notes and drafts], Northern Lights Studies in Creativity 2, 1985-86: 1-13; ARK 54,

" Starspire (for Bucky Fuller)," Sulfur 6 (2), 1986: 26-28

"From the Imaginary Menagerie" [poems], ACTS 6, 1986: 106-111

"ARK 60, 61, 62, The Fireworks Spires," Temblor 6, 1987: 60-68

"ARK 67-84," Arches I-XVIII, Conjunctions 15, 1990: 148-199

"ARK 85-88," Arches XIX, XX (The Wreath), XXI, XXII [selections from ARK: The Ramparts (St. Paul, MN: furnitures, 1991)

"ARK 97-99," Arches XXXI-XXXIII, Parnassus 17 (2) / 18 (1), 1994: 273-281

"Road Side (Desert to Prairie)" [poem], LVNG 5 (1994), 66-71.