<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post111336386123238711..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111386094129945505</id><published>2005-04-18T17:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-18T17:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for sending me back to Charles Olson&#39;s Shak...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for sending me back to Charles Olson&#39;s Shakespeare -- the Shakespeare-wants-to-be-a- projectivist essay -- gripping stuff! but difficult reading now, because my copy of the Selected Writings is held together only by paste and prayer, from serious overuse in the 70s. Is it, I wonder, distinguishable: the influence of specifically Olson&#39;s Shakesepeare?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111386094129945505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111386094129945505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113860940000#c111386094129945505' title=''/><author><name>Tony Green</name><uri>http://Tony_Green.typepad.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111368875958883325</id><published>2005-04-16T17:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-16T17:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are many Shakespeares.  And many takes.  Cul...</title><summary type='text'>There are many Shakespeares.  And many takes.  Culinary takes, religious takes, sociological takes, etc.  The diversity of readings and readers is amazing.  Every year each play has 800 articles published in professional journals.  So you can&#39;t even keep up with ONE play unless that&#39;s ALL you&#39;re doing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For some it&#39;s worth doing.  I only read the articles that deal with Shakespeare&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111368875958883325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111368875958883325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113688740000#c111368875958883325' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111366955494324391</id><published>2005-04-16T12:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-16T12:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This is a correction of my last post. I don&#39;t own ...</title><summary type='text'>This is a correction of my last post. I don&#39;t own a copy of the _Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry_, but J.D.McClatchy makes a lame attempt at comparing Michael Palmer with Ellen Bryant Voigt.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have a personal axe to grind. At a poetry workshop I took from McClatchy long ago, he went around the room asking for favorite poets . I said &quot;Rilke&quot;, and he pursed his lips, making </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111366955494324391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111366955494324391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113669540000#c111366955494324391' title=''/><author><name>Arlee Christian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08200416510821299942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-551028600"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111362437199314485</id><published>2005-04-16T00:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-16T00:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Silliman writes:&quot;When the Royal Shakespeare Compan...</title><summary type='text'>Silliman writes:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;When the Royal Shakespeare Company filmed its minimalist version of Macbeth for the BBC in 1979, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, the rest of the 12-person cast &amp; the accompanying production crew got together to simply count the number of different versions of the play they had worked on or in during the course of their careers. The total went into the hundreds. In a society </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111362437199314485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111362437199314485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113624360000#c111362437199314485' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111362390459945289</id><published>2005-04-15T23:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T23:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No, it&#39;s not Bishop.  &amp; it&#39;s a fake bird.</title><summary type='text'>No, it&#39;s not Bishop.  &amp; it&#39;s a fake bird.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111362390459945289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111362390459945289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113623880000#c111362390459945289' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111361367810439048</id><published>2005-04-15T21:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T21:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bishop?Possibly.Cf. this photo, which looks (based...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;B&gt;Bishop?&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Possibly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Cf. this photo, which looks (based on the hairstyle) to have been taken sometime in the 1940s:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/breath/Faces_asthma/VIIA8.html</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111361367810439048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111361367810439048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113613620000#c111361367810439048' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111361310440446449</id><published>2005-04-15T20:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T20:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m glad someone besides myself has seen the dange...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m glad someone besides myself has seen the danger looming from the broccoli conspiracy.  But I agree with Nomadman.  Government is a natural &amp; unavoidable consequence of social life.  It&#39;s arrogant to consign &quot;government&quot; to some inferior &quot;they&quot; (even though &quot;they&quot; are in power).  This is paranoia.  WE are government, in a democracy.  Fortunately WE have some checks on state power, which </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111361310440446449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111361310440446449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113613080000#c111361310440446449' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111360954914593163</id><published>2005-04-15T19:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T19:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That picture was taken in Florida, at a time Olson...</title><summary type='text'>That picture was taken in Florida, at a time Olson was renting a place from Elizabeth Bishop. I always wondered if the woman in the picture is Bishop.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111360954914593163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111360954914593163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113609540000#c111360954914593163' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111360138094649133</id><published>2005-04-15T17:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T17:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Steve No Man:This is a very original idea, th...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Steve No Man:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is a very original idea, that there is no private property in the U.S.:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;As for the private sector and the arts, I don&#39;t think there is any such thing as a &#39;private sector.&#39; The entire economic existence of the United States is subsidized by the government. This assertion is based on property rights. The government subsidizes independent economic activity</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111360138094649133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111360138094649133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113601380000#c111360138094649133' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111359692973258241</id><published>2005-04-15T16:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T16:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It was interesting to see Harold Bloom&#39;s name pop ...</title><summary type='text'>It was interesting to see Harold Bloom&#39;s name pop up.  I was thinking about Anxiety of Influence after Ron wrote about Frank Stanford and Henry Darger.  Bloom&#39;s book confounded me as a college student 20 years ago.  From what I can remember of it, Bloom&#39;s concept seems completely ridiculous.  Is it worth reading again?  It seems just a rationalization for the &quot;canon.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That said, the last</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111359692973258241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111359692973258241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113596880000#c111359692973258241' title=''/><author><name>steve nomansland</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111358242186786267</id><published>2005-04-15T12:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T12:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m going to make some assertions here that may se...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m going to make some assertions here that may seem completely weird:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) Shakespeare is over-rated.  His language, far from being eloquent, is usually tortured, Germanic in construction--in a &quot;low&quot; popular style, abandoned soon after The Bard expired, in des-PI-sed rhyme!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There are Shakespeare junkies who see the same plays over and over and over again--have memorized all the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111358242186786267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111358242186786267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113582420000#c111358242186786267' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111358070604408993</id><published>2005-04-15T11:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T11:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Prithee, Sir Henry, the Queen requesteth your pret...</title><summary type='text'>Prithee, Sir Henry, the Queen requesteth your prethenth, poththaste, in the Green Room (2 doors down from the Star Chamber), for a dram of milkie-broccoli &amp; a little chatte about your presente (secret) services to the Crown.  Bring your jodphurs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gad ! I shan&#39;t have posted this to the wrong addresse now, have I?  Ye Gads!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111358070604408993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111358070604408993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113580680000#c111358070604408993' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357933456187858</id><published>2005-04-15T11:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T11:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Last I heard, Shakespeare wrote in the English lan...</title><summary type='text'>Last I heard, Shakespeare wrote in the English language.  I think the English language as we know it was initially produced in a country called England.  As far as I know, English is the most widely-used language in the United States.  I think Brecht &amp; Fo wrote in other languages.  English has had quite a big influence on American poets who write in that language.  Shakespeare, I believe, wrote </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357933456187858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357933456187858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113579300000#c111357933456187858' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357899443573009</id><published>2005-04-15T11:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T11:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And to stir up further controversy: I just re-call...</title><summary type='text'>And to stir up further controversy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; I just re-call a further &#39;irony&#39;: Palmer serving as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (1999-2004). How much changed in 25 years following his &#39;outsider&#39; label in Congress?Is he now mainstream along with Robert Creeley who served in that position? (Why couldn&#39;t either of these two poets have insured that Silliman has a site at poet.org? They </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357899443573009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357899443573009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113578940000#c111357899443573009' title=''/><author><name>Arlee Christian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08200416510821299942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-551028600"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357815748169738</id><published>2005-04-15T11:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T11:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are left-wing and right-wing readings of Sha...</title><summary type='text'>There are left-wing and right-wing readings of Shakespeare as there are of Hegel.  Charles Olson&#39;s very left-wing and pagan reading of Shakespeare in Call Me Ishmael is fascinating but it shows the endless relativism without any criteria that leads to the Maoism of our time (I don&#39;t think a society can live without some guiding values) and in the vaccuum of the left of that time have stepped race</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357815748169738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357815748169738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113578100000#c111357815748169738' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357618468048350</id><published>2005-04-15T10:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T10:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fascinating post. I wish I had time to make some c...</title><summary type='text'>Fascinating post. I wish I had time to make some comments. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To think that the NEA&#39;s increase in financial &#39;solvency&#39; may be fertilizing the ground in which a future Leroi Jones or Edward Symmes may first gain some nourishment.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just as some off-hand comments by John Lukacs on C-span (this weekend) about one of his favorite poets, Wendell Berry...could eventually lead a curious </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357618468048350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357618468048350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113576180000#c111357618468048350' title=''/><author><name>Arlee Christian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08200416510821299942</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-551028600"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357324298103333</id><published>2005-04-15T09:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T09:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Too bad Stevens, Berryman, Crane, Dickinson (a few...</title><summary type='text'>Too bad Stevens, Berryman, Crane, Dickinson (a few dozen others) were such Quietudes.  The Shakespeare influence comes through thicke &amp; snoredic-ponderific.  They could have been great.  I blame the broccoli.  I hear that Gioa got funding channeled through USBA (US Brocolli Administration) to spread thin seedy throughout this our America.  Must be stopped!  Awake, ye slumbrous New Ams !  Life is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357324298103333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357324298103333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113573240000#c111357324298103333' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357203503175598</id><published>2005-04-15T09:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T09:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think that they&#39;re generally taking the stance t...</title><summary type='text'>I think that they&#39;re generally taking the stance that anything living is going to make their federal funders freak out unless it&#39;s totally bland and safe. They can do the canonic dead &amp; Congress won&#39;t recognize what a radical (aesthetically, if more ambivalent politically) Shakespeare was.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Remember the fun &amp; games of &quot;Piss Christ&quot; &amp; Mapplethorpes nailed penises? Do you remember when some</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357203503175598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357203503175598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113571980000#c111357203503175598' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111357141011325421</id><published>2005-04-15T09:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-15T09:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I certainly agree that a refreshing of Shakespeare...</title><summary type='text'>I certainly agree that a refreshing of Shakespeare&#39;s influence is a good and probably diversifying thing, and I&#39;m glad that the NEA&#39;s program will deliver that influence to places it may not have reached (in an engaging way, anyway), before. But I struggle with modern arts programs that reach so far back in time when there are so many intesting things happening today. Or happening, as you point </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357141011325421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111336386123238711/comments/default/111357141011325421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html?showComment=1113571380000#c111357141011325421' title=''/><author><name>David Vincenti</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01238735541104830642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/feeding-bird-on-head-of-charles-olson.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111336386123238711' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111336386123238711' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1743624284"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2005"/></entry></feed>