Radi Os
| Author | : Ronald Johnson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 138 |
| Release | : 2005-04-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015061190057 |
| ISBN-13 | : |
| Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Download or read book Radi Os written by Ronald Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, Ronald Johnson's RADI OS revises the first four books of Paradise Lost by excising words, discovering a modern and visionary poem within the seventeenth-century text. As the author explains, "To etch is 'to cut away, ' and each page, as in Blake's concept of a book, is a single picture." With God and Satan crossed out, RADI OS reduces Milton's Baroque poem to elemental forces. In this retelling of the Fall, song precipitates from chaos, sight from fire: "in the shape / as of / above the / rose / through / rose / rising / the radiant sun. -- Contracubierta.
