tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post7198189291835712807..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: A Tribute to Ronald Johnson (1935-1998): Part OneCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-26550437635721164762009-02-02T15:45:00.000-08:002009-02-02T15:45:00.000-08:00The Book of the Green Man's a classic. It's one o...The Book of the Green Man's a classic. It's one of the few books I find things in, to come back to--it doesn't get old. <BR/><BR/>I'll address a future post to an appreciation of it.<BR/><BR/>Ironic that an American should have written (have had to write) it. Those Brits need to pay more attention to their own traditions!Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-67463008448418078062009-02-02T13:17:00.000-08:002009-02-02T13:17:00.000-08:00hey guys..I think that it was in taht same book st...hey guys..<BR/><BR/>I think that it was in taht same book store that I got a hard-back first edition of<BR/><BR/>The Book of the Green Man<BR/><BR/>the hard greenish cover has embedded (pressed into)in it "Ronald Johnson" in his script/signature<BR/><BR/>and<BR/><BR/>seems to me I know Tinker<BR/><BR/>didn't you used to take a lot of pictures? of poets and others..<BR/><BR/>now to "cruise" the Silliman blog see who is up to no good!<BR/><BR/>this Olde Bird tiptoes through the barn yard especially where the chickens shit!<BR/><BR/>(I just cldn't resist!)<BR/><BR/><BR/>nice post thought uncluttered<BR/><BR/>I was confussing (which I seldom do) when ever I saw the name<BR/>Kent Johnson <BR/><BR/>w Ron Johnson...<BR/><BR/>silly me.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-66516067806244981462009-01-28T11:42:00.000-08:002009-01-28T11:42:00.000-08:00This old bird flapping about the barnyard, squawki...This old bird flapping about the barnyard, squawking and sputtering. <BR/><BR/>I like the image!Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-79456392979282365432009-01-28T11:33:00.000-08:002009-01-28T11:33:00.000-08:00It's much nicer to see you on your own here, witho...It's much nicer to see you on your own here, without the editorial handicap of RS who always trimmed your wings to fit his Procrustean ideals. Lovely posts.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-10088037818169230502009-01-26T23:48:00.000-08:002009-01-26T23:48:00.000-08:00what a splendid post! profoundly true to the subj...what a splendid post! profoundly true to the subject in all senses, carefully articulated. <BR/><BR/>i first encountered johnson's writing squatting on the floor of a greenwich village paperback bookshop when i was in my twenties, just browsing the shelves--it was years before i registered any critical notice of him but his publications became heroic to me from the start and encouraged and shaped me, id say, my whole life. now you're saying why. thank you, and i look forward eagerly to the next installment.Tinker Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667761674945417190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-47225202402757259492009-01-26T21:58:00.000-08:002009-01-26T21:58:00.000-08:00Colonel,I congratulate you on your ascent, or perh...Colonel,<BR/><BR/>I congratulate you on your ascent, or perhaps expansion, to the full editorial plural. As TR once remarked: Be eight people & the difficulties vanish<BR/><BR/>But, zap! May a suitably weighted wind urge your skiff through these pensive waters.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-48503230295970544952009-01-26T21:15:00.000-08:002009-01-26T21:15:00.000-08:00thanks for thisthanks for thisCharles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.com