ARK

"Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems (and we have had more than a few), ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun."

~Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker

"The poem begins and ends with the U.S. space program, reaches back to ancient Egypt and the myth of Eden, and stops to acknowledge the author's own native Kansas. Though its cosmic ambitions may remind some of Pound's Cantos, or Louis Zukofsky's "A", it is more fun, and happier, than its precursors."

~Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Reading Ronald Johnson's ARK—both the ark of the new covenant in poetry and the arc-en-ciel of a new promise ever before me as I read—I think anew and feel anew"

~Robert Duncan