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Ronald Johnson’s book of erasure poetry—in which new poems are discovered¹⁹ in existing texts by cutting away most of the original text—has four customer reviews on Amazon and a 100 percent, five-star rating.

A cookbook, The American Table, also attributed to Ronald Johnson, is a collaboration with illustrator James McGarrell; it has ten customer reviews and an identical 100 percent, five-star rating.²⁰

As if in anticipation of this confluence of poetry and meals, the final line of “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” reads, “they also serve who only stand and wait.”