Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses Scherzos Benjyosos Its protean instability throws out

Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory

I love and lived this poem's untethered shadowing

the small corpse is equally a meditation on healing and joy

in a stream-of-consciousness style that both describes and dramatizes the movement of the poet’s restless mind

Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses Scherzos Benjyosos Its protean instability throws outRonald Johnson Ronald Johnson's underground classic of visionary and queer poetics, Valley of the Many Colored Grasses, has been legendarily hard to find for over 50 years. In this book of poems, Johnson creates a specifically North American vision that references everything from ancient Native American myths to Johnny Appleseed, from Charles Darwin to the Wizard of Oz, microcosmically transforming the vast open expanse of the plains into delicate