Edited by Joel Bettridge and Eric Murphy Selinger, this collection of scholarly essays also includes two interviews with Johnson, a memoir of Johnson by Peter O'Leary, and a complete bibliography. "In keeping with the variety of Johnson's poetry, we have included pieces of varying lengths, styles, and approaches. Some expansive, some incisive, some elegantly brief, they map the current state of Johnson scholarship and suggest the avenues of inquiry that others will soon follow."--from the Introduction by Eric Murphy Selinger and Joel Bettridge.

“I count Ronald Johnson as one of the defining peers of my own imagined company of poets, ageless and yet insistently specific to all one’s life might seem to be here and now. The very title of his major long poem cycle, ARK—with its determining echoes, its senses of a contiguous, innumerable event, its measure of heart and time, all the wondrous, intimate, particularizing reflection and record—proposes the character of this work I so value.” – Robert Creeley

“I have always thought Ron Johnson a terrific poet: everything he has written has surprised and delighted me.” – Thom Gunn

“Poetry with a passion for exact, even scientific scrutiny.” – Guy Davenport