<?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.post111392685757933783..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/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>106</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112734595902599356</id><published>2005-09-21T19:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T19:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lord Google lead me to this long-dead discussion, ...</title><summary type='text'>Lord Google lead me to this long-dead discussion, but I still wanted to leave a couple of words of impeccable wisdom (wisdom so air-tight and perfect that you can not &#39;peck&#39; at it...). Opaque, &#39;difficult&#39; poetry is all well and good if that poetry contains something within it worth finding. If, after expending ones precious brain juices on deciphering a poem, all that the poem has to say is a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/112734595902599356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/112734595902599356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1127345940000#c112734595902599356' title=''/><author><name>Brett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09958984151677722851</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1222757787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112734584689563489</id><published>2005-09-21T19:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T19:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/112734584689563489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/112734584689563489'/><author><name>Brett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09958984151677722851</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1222757787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112031760322176862</id><published>2005-07-02T11:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-02T11:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For the record, and because it would appear no one...</title><summary type='text'>For the record, and because it would appear no one reads comments that are posted to blog entries older than a week or two so no one will ever know, I found the Armantrout poem opaque when I first read it--AND after reading what Ron said about it.  When I happened on it the other day, it made perfect sense to me.  I guess Ron&#39;s comments sank in, and/or the poem sank in, or something.  BUT, I&#39;m </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/112031760322176862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/112031760322176862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1120317600000#c112031760322176862' title=''/><author><name>Bob</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06510873404741557897</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1366556700"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111988984087120286</id><published>2005-06-27T12:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-27T12:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was wandering among entries here, curious if Ron...</title><summary type='text'>I was wandering among entries here, curious if Ron or anyone had said anything about Cummings I could use in a paper I&#39;m preparing on his influence--which I consider widespread and not all that weak on even the language poets, though not, it doesn&#39;t seem to me, on Ron&#39;s work.  In my wandering, I came on the following crap from stasguard Tony (Robinson?): &quot;With the exception of Ron, I don&#39;t know </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111988984087120286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111988984087120286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1119889800000#c111988984087120286' title=''/><author><name>Bob</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06510873404741557897</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1366556700"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111524903979990011</id><published>2005-05-04T19:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T19:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Piling on Collins.  A whole rugby scrum, no, an ar...</title><summary type='text'>Piling on Collins.  A whole rugby scrum, no, an army.  I suppose that his crime is writing ABOUT something outside of poetry.  Crush him.  He is comprehensible.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;-- KO</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111524903979990011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111524903979990011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115248980000#c111524903979990011' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111522749297185757</id><published>2005-05-04T13:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T13:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is a far, far, better thing I do...Blogger 101....</title><summary type='text'>It is a far, far, better thing I do...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Blogger 101.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Take the course and don&#39;t go to the lectures....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--CF</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111522749297185757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111522749297185757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115227440000#c111522749297185757' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111521841667698033</id><published>2005-05-04T10:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T10:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nah</title><summary type='text'>Nah</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111521841667698033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111521841667698033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115218380000#c111521841667698033' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111521817250822814</id><published>2005-05-04T10:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T10:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>99.  But I won&#39;t do the hundred.  Let&#39;s see if we ...</title><summary type='text'>99.  But I won&#39;t do the hundred.  Let&#39;s see if we have the fortitude to NOT hit 100.  You know, out of a spirit of neighborliness to Billy Collins.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111521817250822814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111521817250822814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115218140000#c111521817250822814' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111521812522661876</id><published>2005-05-04T10:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T10:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>98</title><summary type='text'>98</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111521812522661876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111521812522661876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115218080000#c111521812522661876' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111518479438907168</id><published>2005-05-04T01:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-04T01:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I feel like I&#39;m cheating by posting again.  And ye...</title><summary type='text'>I feel like I&#39;m cheating by posting again.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And yet... &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;97...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111518479438907168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111518479438907168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115184780000#c111518479438907168' title=''/><author><name>A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17254397162486199144</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1316254827"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 04, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111513996921994073</id><published>2005-05-03T13:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-03T13:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So close and yet so far.  96,</title><summary type='text'>So close and yet so far.  96,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111513996921994073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111513996921994073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115139960000#c111513996921994073' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 03, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111508712207469326</id><published>2005-05-02T22:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-02T22:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ninety-five...</title><summary type='text'>Ninety-five...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111508712207469326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111508712207469326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115087100000#c111508712207469326' title=''/><author><name>A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17254397162486199144</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1316254827"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111507699381206788</id><published>2005-05-02T19:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-02T19:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It finally seems to have come to a halt. (And I th...</title><summary type='text'>It finally seems to have come to a halt. (And I thought it might hit 100.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111507699381206788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111507699381206788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1115076960000#c111507699381206788' title=''/><author><name>Michael Harold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11165160971360124629</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 02, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111489906402624745</id><published>2005-04-30T18:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T18:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Isee Billy Collins as being sort of like the actor...</title><summary type='text'>Isee Billy Collins as being sort of like the actor Billy Crystal.  Crystal is a good actor.  He&#39;s fun to watch in a film like When Harry Met Sally.  But he&#39;s no Artaud.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But then Artaud couldn&#39;t do what Billy Crystal does.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m happy that both the excessive nuts like Artaud exist and the more minor nuts like Billy Crystal exist.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is it an identity issue in high school?  &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111489906402624745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111489906402624745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114899060000#c111489906402624745' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111489261965895703</id><published>2005-04-30T16:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T16:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i find especially fascinating how much time &amp; effo...</title><summary type='text'>i find especially fascinating how much time &amp; effort is wasted discussing Collins &amp; Co. in high school, there was a reason why different cliques did not mix with each other. when they did, fights or awkward silences broke out. unless one of you have learned how to convince a rock to be a butterfly, i don&#39;t seem many hearts &amp; minds changing on the matter, at least not by way of snippets and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111489261965895703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111489261965895703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114892580000#c111489261965895703' title=''/><author><name>Ismael Ricardo Archbold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16964755712223026921</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1112170811"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111488539048066429</id><published>2005-04-30T14:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T14:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Perhaps the difference is that most poets, even ma...</title><summary type='text'>Perhaps the difference is that most poets, even many members of the &quot;SOQ&quot; I&#39;ve been in contact with, don&#39;t consider our society at large worth joining or celebrating. Great poets and thinkers, long before Rimbaud, have occupied liminal places in society, explored the limits of human experience and thought, the limits of language, the limits of form--Collins or Gioia is very clearly *not* doing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111488539048066429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111488539048066429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114885380000#c111488539048066429' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111487181937768211</id><published>2005-04-30T10:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T10:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It strikes me as extremely ironic to celebrate ris...</title><summary type='text'>It strikes me as extremely ironic to celebrate risking ones body under the mask of anonymity (2 steps removed).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps language as the sole interest of a poem -- drawing attention to one&#39;s language as opposed to the world -- is a dead end of sorts.  Ron Silliman has already said that LANGUAGE as a movement has come to an end.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps a turn to the world -- engagement with the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111487181937768211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111487181937768211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114871760000#c111487181937768211' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111484725846632434</id><published>2005-04-30T03:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T03:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Matthew,To be honest, I don&#39;t know where to begin ...</title><summary type='text'>Matthew,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To be honest, I don&#39;t know where to begin responding to these remarks.  Since I don&#39;t want to clog up this space, feel free to drop by my blog and post a comment with your e-mail address.  Hopefully, we&#39;ll talk some more.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111484725846632434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111484725846632434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114847220000#c111484725846632434' title=''/><author><name>A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17254397162486199144</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1316254827"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111484078785784820</id><published>2005-04-30T01:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T01:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And, apologetically, to beat an already abused top...</title><summary type='text'>And, apologetically, to beat an already abused topic even further, the &#39;danger&#39; Billy Collins might have undertaken by playing friendly is akin to the &#39;risk&#39; a multimillionaire takes when purchasing a few shares of devalued stock--the potential for real, tangible loss is nil. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Matthew</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111484078785784820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111484078785784820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114840740000#c111484078785784820' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111483991706817640</id><published>2005-04-30T01:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-30T01:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apparently brave and humble and rabidly anti-intel...</title><summary type='text'>Apparently brave and humble and rabidly anti-intellectual earns one plenty of fame and notoriety in the U.S. Our president appears congenial, friendly, &quot;one of the good guys.&quot; Should one want to emulate such an attitude?&lt;BR/&gt;Trends and stylistic preferences, in this culture, in most of the arts, seem to be marks of laziness and an acute aversion to explore depths of knowledge and experience that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111483991706817640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111483991706817640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114839900000#c111483991706817640' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111482682217824066</id><published>2005-04-29T22:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T22:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>1.) &quot;Dangerous relativism&quot; is either redundant or ...</title><summary type='text'>1.) &quot;Dangerous relativism&quot; is either redundant or an oxymoron. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2.) Nothing is safer than hyperbolic sarcasm.  Not even Collins.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Too, Collins was brave enough to be boring, humble and funny when no one else was.  The current trends and stylistic preferences in American poetry have followed Collins -- not the other way around.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Written sarcasm is the mask of the timid.&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111482682217824066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111482682217824066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114826820000#c111482682217824066' title=''/><author><name>A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17254397162486199144</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1316254827"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111482381647736655</id><published>2005-04-29T21:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T21:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yawn? I&#39;d take Dangerous relativism over &#39;fun&#39; ima...</title><summary type='text'>Yawn? I&#39;d take Dangerous relativism over &#39;fun&#39; imagery any day. I&#39;m sailing alone around the room with my pants off right now. So like a few other poets, Billy Collins likes cartoons. Awesome. Frank O&#39;Hara likes coke but Ted Berrigan likes Pepsi--obviously this is symbolic of their intense rivalry over who was to be the flagship poet of American consumerism. Yes, and all of us are secretly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111482381647736655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111482381647736655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114823760000#c111482381647736655' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111481946351588298</id><published>2005-04-29T20:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T20:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yawn.</title><summary type='text'>Yawn.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111481946351588298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111481946351588298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114819440000#c111481946351588298' title=''/><author><name>A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17254397162486199144</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1316254827"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111481755497961829</id><published>2005-04-29T19:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T19:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Billy Collins also belongs to the long tradition o...</title><summary type='text'>Billy Collins also belongs to the long tradition of poets who use nouns. Just check out these three lines from the esteemable &quot;picnic, lightning&quot;, perhaps one of the greatest examples of verse since Longfellow:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;It is possible to be struck by a/ &lt;BR/&gt;meteor or a single-engine plane while/ reading in a chair at home. Pedestrians&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not only can we discern the highly efficient, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111481755497961829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111481755497961829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114817520000#c111481755497961829' 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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111481447569116671</id><published>2005-04-29T18:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-29T18:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I think you&#39;re moving toward something very...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I think you&#39;re moving toward something very interesting with these last posts.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But remember: the &#39;Leftist&#39; poetry community is not actually interested in tolerance, per se, but rather in the primacy of a wider and more ethical inclusion.  The same can be, and has been, said about Multiculturalism.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If anyone is interested, Carey McWilliams wrote a beautiful essay about </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111481447569116671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111392685757933783/comments/default/111481447569116671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html?showComment=1114814460000#c111481447569116671' title=''/><author><name>A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17254397162486199144</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/nothing-literally-nothing-angers-me.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392685757933783' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111392685757933783' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1316254827"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2005"/></entry></feed>