With John Tipton, he directs the small poetry press Verge Books. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
A newer study, Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age, was published by Columbia University Press in 2018. In 2002, his critical study, Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness, was published. He has also edited Is Music: Selected Poems by John Taggart. As Ronald Johnson’s literary executor, he has edited several volumes of Johnson’s poetry, including The Shrubberies, Radi os, and new editions of ARK and The Book of the Green Man. His books of poetry include Watchfulness, Depth Theology, Luminous Epinoia, Phosphorescence of Thought, The Sampo, Earth Is Best, and The Hidden Eyes of Things. Louis, and Budapest, the bulk of his life has been lived alongside the Great Lakes and their waterways: the Detroit River, Lake St.
Though he has lived for extended stays in Portland, Vienna, St. As the author explains, 'To etch is to cut away, and each page, as in Blakes concept of a book, is a single picture.
An edition of Radi os (1977) Radi os OI-OIV 1st ed. First published in 1977, Ronald Johnsons RADI OS revises the first four books of Paradise Lost by excising words, discovering a modern and visionary poem within the seventeenth-century text. Peter O’Leary was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1968. Radi os by Ronald Johnson, 1977, Sand Dollar edition, in English - 1st ed. Reading Ronald Johnson's Radi Os T, he book-jacket biography on Ronald Johnson's latest work, the cookbook Simple Fare, closes with a rather startling claim.
