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Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson´s poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson´s work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies, especially the discontinuities commonly seen to exist between nineteenth-century Romantic and twentieth-century modernist literary forms.

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Introduction: "Congeries of Word and Light" Luminous Juxtapositions: Ezra Pound, Philology, and the Ideogrammic Method Orphic Visions, Orphic Voices: Johnson´s New Transcendentalism "The Round Earth on Flat Paper": Visual Integrity in The Book of the Green Man Johnson´s Different Musics: Ives and NaIf Art Orphic Apocrypha: Radi os and the Found Text A "mosaic of Cosmos": ARK ´s Bricolage Poetics Conclusion: Felix Culpa : Adamic Innocence and Renewal

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Ross Hair is Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth.

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