<?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.post111607712801228679..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/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/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>26</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111652496928512364</id><published>2005-05-19T13:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-19T13:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Anonymous,Corso was a very shy person.  He needed ...</title><summary type='text'>Anonymous,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Corso was a very shy person.  He needed to get drunk to be in public, and then he overdid it.  Did you ever READ him?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Like velvet. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Vermeer&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;See him stand beside a tiny gate&lt;BR/&gt;Around him lazy dogs congregate&lt;BR/&gt;In bright windows above his head&lt;BR/&gt;girls with porcelain jugs pour milk&lt;BR/&gt;while lonely men with heavy knives &lt;BR/&gt;   slice bread&lt;BR/&gt;and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111652496928512364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111652496928512364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116524940000#c111652496928512364' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111646384903002761</id><published>2005-05-18T20:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T20:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Corso always struck me as watered-down Ginsberg.  ...</title><summary type='text'>Corso always struck me as watered-down Ginsberg.  Rant.  Bleary-eyed epiphany. Intellectually bankrupt.  A hustler dressed up in hippy clothes.  A mental brawler.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never could take the guy seriously.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111646384903002761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111646384903002761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116463800000#c111646384903002761' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111645103452317645</id><published>2005-05-18T17:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T17:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stephen,I so often find myself defending Corso.  I...</title><summary type='text'>Stephen,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I so often find myself defending Corso.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I just never saw him in the light of a naive oaf as so many people did.  I think he was the most brilliant guy I&#39;ve ever met.  His intensity -- when he spoke about anything you could see it with a weird precision -- I can still remember him discussing the shadows in the moat of a Poe poem, and using geometry to explain the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111645103452317645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111645103452317645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116451020000#c111645103452317645' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111644635704984559</id><published>2005-05-18T15:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T15:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are two types of people in the world: those ...</title><summary type='text'>There are two types of people in the world: those who divide the world into two types of people and those who don&#39;t.-- I believe the ultimate postmodenist Mark Twain wrote that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111644635704984559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111644635704984559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116446340000#c111644635704984559' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111643266183648861</id><published>2005-05-18T12:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T12:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry to pass on the dubious (or misunderstood) st...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry to pass on the dubious (or misunderstood) story about Corso discoursing on Blake--but not TOO sorry because it&#39;s funny to contemplate the image of Wm. and Catherine B. chasing around a brood of kiddies--I&#39;ll have to do pleasant penance and read a lot of Corso this summer/I&#39;ll not name the &quot;bumpkin&quot; here publicly because the person in question deserves better than to be introduced to the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111643266183648861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111643266183648861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116432660000#c111643266183648861' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111642242003149819</id><published>2005-05-18T09:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T09:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stephen, I don&#39;t know who told you that Corso stor...</title><summary type='text'>Stephen, I don&#39;t know who told you that Corso story.  People who actually knew him quite well tend to tell another story entirely.  You have to remember, too, that Corso was a joker who enjoyed yanking people&#39;s chains.  It&#39;s very hard to get a good sense of what he was saying in the case you mention as you don&#39;t say who the narrator of the tale was or whether or not he or she knew Corso </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111642242003149819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111642242003149819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116422400000#c111642242003149819' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111640893572913901</id><published>2005-05-18T05:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T05:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Being an Englishman who recently voted Liberal Dem...</title><summary type='text'>Being an Englishman who recently voted Liberal Democrat for the first time in a national election - as opposed to Conservative 1 &amp; Conservative 2 (Labour), I entirely understand the iniquity of dividing people into 2 camps (Tweedle Dum-Tweedle Dee poetry/politics): due to the first-past-the-post system here, the third party regularly gets squeezed out. Here&#39;s to more SoQ/PA collaborations!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111640893572913901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111640893572913901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116408900000#c111640893572913901' title=''/><author><name>Steven Waling</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12004262911484220016</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-385466981"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111640214953285983</id><published>2005-05-18T03:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T03:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Back to shared names for a moment--as &#39;curses&#39; go ...</title><summary type='text'>Back to shared names for a moment--as &#39;curses&#39; go it&#39;s not a big deal, but I&#39;ve had to use a middle initial, pretty much against my will, to distinguish myself from another poet John Thompson, fellow-Canadian at that, as well as from the distinguished academic John B. Thompson who knows more about the Frankfurt School than most of us have had cooked breakfasts.  A certain tristesse hangs over the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111640214953285983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111640214953285983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116402120000#c111640214953285983' title=''/><author><name>JOT</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111639121459696488</id><published>2005-05-18T00:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-18T00:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael, I&#39;ll just point you toward John Pannish&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>Michael, I&#39;ll just point you toward John Pannish&#39;s *The Color of Jazz* for an excellent dissection of how the Beats (and pre-beat modernists) misunderstood the communal basis of nearly all jazz in the name of a radical individualism or anti-social be-damned-ism.  While many black artists pointed toward jazz as an alternate and inclusive model for democratic engagement, the Beats were more like </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111639121459696488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111639121459696488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116391200000#c111639121459696488' title=''/><author><name>Matt Merlino</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111638279618891289</id><published>2005-05-17T22:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T22:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirb, that&#39;s a truly unexpected statement you pass...</title><summary type='text'>Kirb, that&#39;s a truly unexpected statement you pass on from Robert C., Gregory Corso as the most &quot;well read&quot; poet he knew.  I had heard a story of Corso holding forth on the life and art of William Blake and blundering into exclamations about how wonderful it was that Blake, like Johann Sebastian Bach, was a father to such a profusion of children.  &quot;But you didn&#39;t want to stop him&quot; said the man </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111638279618891289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111638279618891289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116382740000#c111638279618891289' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111638014589431067</id><published>2005-05-17T21:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T21:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also seems damn odd that its possible to think the...</title><summary type='text'>Also seems damn odd that its possible to think the Beats were not addressing politics.  Into phony hoodoo as the more authentic voodoed?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think posting poetry just here is good manners.  What would I rather read?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111638014589431067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111638014589431067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116380100000#c111638014589431067' title=''/><author><name>Joe Green</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111637432534523108</id><published>2005-05-17T19:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T19:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One of the great benefits of dividing any group of...</title><summary type='text'>One of the great benefits of dividing any group of people (poets, plumbers, octogenarians, etc.) into two groups is that it makes it a lot harder for a third group to gain entry to the discussion. In this particular up and down comment box elevator, we have the traditional, lyrical, SoQ types positioned against the non-traditional, post-structuralist, avant-po types. I see very little wiggle room</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111637432534523108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111637432534523108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116374280000#c111637432534523108' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111636534055788660</id><published>2005-05-17T17:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T17:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, no one uses the word &quot;surrealistic&quot; except ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, no one uses the word &quot;surrealistic&quot; except you and perhaps Grace Slick.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Corso is required reading, yet I&#39;ve met so many who haven&#39;t bothered to read a single Corso poem. I cannot fathom why.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111636534055788660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111636534055788660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116365340000#c111636534055788660' title=''/><author><name>Larry Sawyer</name><uri>http://www.milkmag.org</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111636089948517147</id><published>2005-05-17T16:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T16:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was in Box Social with the English Matt Hart.  T...</title><summary type='text'>I was in Box Social with the English Matt Hart.  The band was sort of our attempt to heal the poetry divide: Matt&#39;s poetry being more on the experimental side, mine being more on the lyrical side (having studied with Stephen Dunn as an undergrad).  Ironically, my song lyrics were perhaps more fragmented and paratactical than Hart&#39;s.  It&#39;s my humble opinion that experimental poetics work best over</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111636089948517147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111636089948517147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116360840000#c111636089948517147' title=''/><author><name>Matt Merlino</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111635042744894105</id><published>2005-05-17T13:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T13:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Corso&#39;s work on the &quot;Matt Hart Conundrum&quot; was publ...</title><summary type='text'>Corso&#39;s work on the &quot;Matt Hart Conundrum&quot; was published in the Evangelium Divinum della Planetorium Fisicorum Post-Toastoria (Milano, 1343).  You can find this in any public library (ask at reference desk for 15th Dimension Access).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Corso on Matt Hart:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Believe me, the two Harts&lt;BR/&gt;were one, on the wrestling mat&lt;BR/&gt;of the Angels&quot;, wrote Piccolo&lt;BR/&gt;Piccolo-eenie-mini, on the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111635042744894105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111635042744894105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116350400000#c111635042744894105' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111634898363772493</id><published>2005-05-17T12:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T12:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>(1445-1510) -- Luca Pacioli.  I gave him 300 extra...</title><summary type='text'>(1445-1510) -- Luca Pacioli.  I gave him 300 extra years in the post above.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634898363772493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634898363772493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116348960000#c111634898363772493' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111634889761329668</id><published>2005-05-17T12:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T12:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m curious what was said exactly about Corso.  Wh...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m curious what was said exactly about Corso.  What KIND of positive comments.   Most think of him as another surrealistic entertainer -- silly and fun.  I don&#39;t read him in that line at all.  There is a very thin surface which is like that, but underneath it there&#39;s a lot more going on.  People, including Ginsberg, tended to ignore that side of Corso.  Curiously one of the few who read him as I</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634889761329668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634889761329668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116348840000#c111634889761329668' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111634745707405387</id><published>2005-05-17T12:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T12:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon, That is the Matt Hart with whom I read, as ...</title><summary type='text'>Simon, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That is the Matt Hart with whom I read, as distinct from the one I know.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634745707405387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634745707405387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116347400000#c111634745707405387' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111634726828153993</id><published>2005-05-17T12:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T12:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I reviewed a Matt Hart poem on Rhubarb a few days ...</title><summary type='text'>I reviewed a &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2005/05/matt-hart-confetti.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Matt Hart&lt;/A&gt; poem on Rhubarb a few days ago. I think I have the right Matt Hart. Well, I&#39;m not sure. The font looks right.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634726828153993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634726828153993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116347220000#c111634726828153993' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111634708059589209</id><published>2005-05-17T12:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T12:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;You can be in my dream if I can be in yours . . ....</title><summary type='text'>&quot;You can be in my dream if I can be in yours . . . I said that&quot; -- Robert Alan Zimmerman, &quot;Talking WW3 Blues&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634708059589209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634708059589209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116347040000#c111634708059589209' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111634441020541178</id><published>2005-05-17T11:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T11:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Luigi Bistecco, in the Annuale della Scienza Fisic...</title><summary type='text'>Luigi Bistecco, in the Annuale della Scienza Fisica e Matematica for 1958, discusses the &quot;Matt Hart Conundrum&quot; at some length (6&#39;, to be exact).  Using a combination of alfa-romeo combinatorics and Godel numbers, he shows pretty decisively that, given &quot;spooky resemblance at a distance&quot; (ie, dual-Hart phenomena such as Ron describes), &amp; no matter how counter-intuitive it may &quot;sound&quot;, in certain </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634441020541178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111634441020541178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116344400000#c111634441020541178' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111633680147513855</id><published>2005-05-17T09:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T09:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The &quot;new&quot; Matt Hart, the American one, has a book ...</title><summary type='text'>The &quot;new&quot; Matt Hart, the American one, has a book coming out soon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;p.s. Yes, Travel is another of his bands.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111633680147513855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111633680147513855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116336780000#c111633680147513855' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111633374254616074</id><published>2005-05-17T08:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T08:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>At your reading there were gads of people from you...</title><summary type='text'>At your reading there were gads of people from your comments section and the UB Poetics list, all of whom I couldn&#39;t pick out on an empty salt flat;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;there were few introductions made outwith the lecturn, and I was busy thinking of great clouded farts filling the room.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;-jeremy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111633374254616074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111633374254616074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116333720000#c111633374254616074' title=''/><author><name>Jehza</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09527708835511076143</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-355639647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111633116147068374</id><published>2005-05-17T07:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T07:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the band that my Matt Hart was last associ...</title><summary type='text'>I think the band that &lt;I&gt;my&lt;/I&gt; Matt Hart was last associated with was called Box Social. I think that Travel was a band that involved the other Matt Hart.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111633116147068374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111633116147068374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116331140000#c111633116147068374' 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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111632740232065820</id><published>2005-05-17T06:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T06:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Googling Matt Hart lead to a site of a band called...</title><summary type='text'>Googling Matt Hart lead to a site of a band called &quot;Travel&quot; that sounds interesting. Is that by any chance a musical project of &quot;your&quot; matt Hart?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111632740232065820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111607712801228679/comments/default/111632740232065820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html?showComment=1116327360000#c111632740232065820' title=''/><author><name>Peli</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/2005/05/drew-gardner-has-review-of-sorts-of-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111607712801228679' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111607712801228679' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry></feed>