<?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.post111612543083701145..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/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/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>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111895394092775345</id><published>2005-06-16T16:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T16:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The comment by Anonymous about Jim Whitehead and t...</title><summary type='text'>The comment by Anonymous about Jim Whitehead and the Rebel Angels anthology is incorrect.  Jim was too old for Rebel Angels (cutoff was b. 1940), and I had nothing to do with that book anyway.  It was edited by Mark Jarman and David Mason.  At one time, some years before TRA, I was contemplating doing a small anthology of contemporary formalists (again, born in 1940 and later) and I did get a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111895394092775345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111895394092775345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1118953920000#c111895394092775345' title=''/><author><name>RSG</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12400193281046763856</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-970198812"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111661088901083912</id><published>2005-05-20T13:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-20T13:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Another of Ron&#39;s patented posts illustrating his s...</title><summary type='text'>Another of Ron&#39;s patented posts illustrating his self-aggrandizing poetics of divisiveness... overshadowed, this time, by the appearance of Joe Green, who I thought had disappeared from the net forever...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111661088901083912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111661088901083912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116610860000#c111661088901083912' title=''/><author><name>Chris Lott</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111660165311805145</id><published>2005-05-20T11:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-20T11:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Not a &#39;native speaker&#39;.  So I tend to wordy and re...</title><summary type='text'>Not a &#39;native speaker&#39;.  So I tend to wordy and redundant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111660165311805145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111660165311805145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116601620000#c111660165311805145' title=''/><author><name>ideaist.wordpress.com</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11326216841108224361</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-805121679"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111656238904224317</id><published>2005-05-20T00:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-20T00:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, it was just a parody of POMO nothingness.  Ver...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, it was just a parody of POMO nothingness.  Very to the point.&lt;BR/&gt;Of course one always imputes behaviour to someone else.  That&#39;s what imputing is all about.  I mean for God&#39;s sake..chatting about the Dionysian and the Appollonian you gots to impute like a son of a bitch just to tread water in that wine dark sea.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And it&#39;s G. Wordy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111656238904224317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111656238904224317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116562380000#c111656238904224317' title=''/><author><name>The Lonliest Ranger</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04553452316213699421</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-51480464"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111637690103575774</id><published>2005-05-17T20:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-17T20:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Giuseppe Verdi:For an example of &#39;hysteria&#39; r...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Giuseppe Verdi:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For an example of &#39;hysteria&#39; read Anonymous&#39; gross distortions and inferences with respect to what I wrote. &#39;Slyly subverting&#39; suggests intellectual dishonesty at some level. Are you sure you wish to say this, especially when you are imputing behaviour to someone other than yourself? Or is it one of those gestures that got lost on the maker?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111637690103575774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111637690103575774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116376860000#c111637690103575774' title=''/><author><name>ideaist.wordpress.com</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11326216841108224361</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-805121679"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111628461907917177</id><published>2005-05-16T19:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T19:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Mr. Skhndrcmbrbtch:So, it all boils down to a...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Mr. Skhndrcmbrbtch:&lt;BR/&gt;So, it all boils down to academically sanctionded definitions of the classics and/or accepted schools like romanticism? Yes, I guess all the GREAT ONES are dead.  They&#39;ve come up with it all.   We postmoderns can only just hope to exist in YOUR vacuum.&lt;BR/&gt;Your anchronistic transcendental cliche (and I don&#39;t mean transcendental in terms of THE movement) is almost as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111628461907917177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111628461907917177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116284580000#c111628461907917177' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111626622919215823</id><published>2005-05-16T13:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T13:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m beginning to detect a pattern.Each Friday, Sun...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m beginning to detect a pattern.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Each Friday, Sunday or Monday Ron throws down the SoQ vs. post-avant gauntlet at which time a zillion poets proceed to rage against the machine (whose machine doesn&#39;t seem to matter). The comments skyrocket. Then Ron follows up by introducting one or more post-avant/new media topics at which time the comments dwindle to as low as 3-4 (but most often </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626622919215823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626622919215823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116266220000#c111626622919215823' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111626524679359741</id><published>2005-05-16T13:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T13:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My favourite part about the West Chester conferenc...</title><summary type='text'>My favourite part about the West Chester conference is that I get to hear the word &quot;polemical&quot; used about 400 times per day.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I know what you mean about the eye-rolling.  The level of self-importance eminating from so many minor poets is staggering.  Ron doesn&#39;t delve into it, but it&#39;s something you really have to experience to appreciate.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626524679359741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626524679359741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116265200000#c111626524679359741' title=''/><author><name>Poetry X</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03326361813257125507</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1680731598"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111626447247349126</id><published>2005-05-16T13:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T13:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Man! If only I could write a computer program that...</title><summary type='text'>Man! If only I could write a computer program that would generate these types of comments.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626447247349126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626447247349126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116264420000#c111626447247349126' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111626248524637549</id><published>2005-05-16T12:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T12:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A predilection for the macabre is actually Apollon...</title><summary type='text'>A predilection for the macabre is actually Apollonian since a certain type of form is foisted on chaos.  So Ron is not perpetuating the dichtomy but slyly subverting it while, at the same time, gesturing to the irony that this quietude -- accepted as a version of pastoral -- actually points to an immense hysteria which claims a kind of deathlessness but only as a gesture that deconstructs itself </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626248524637549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111626248524637549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116262440000#c111626248524637549' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111625449990086253</id><published>2005-05-16T10:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T10:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Your dichotomy is reminiscent of Nietzsche&#39;s oppos...</title><summary type='text'>Your dichotomy is reminiscent of Nietzsche&#39;s opposition of the Dionysian and Apollonian principles of Greek culture in &#39;The Birth of Tragedy,&#39; except that Nietzsche tries to show that tragedy results from the tension of the two. Poe precedes Nietzsche, however, but this opposition was also formulated in Romantic binary of the sublime and the grotesque--so would have been very much in the air when</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111625449990086253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111625449990086253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116254460000#c111625449990086253' title=''/><author><name>ideaist.wordpress.com</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11326216841108224361</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-805121679"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111625049509890858</id><published>2005-05-16T09:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T09:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also, what&#39;s the difference between a blog and a b...</title><summary type='text'>Also, what&#39;s the difference between a blog and a big fat confessional, with the first-person in all of HIS glory?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111625049509890858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111625049509890858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116250440000#c111625049509890858' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111622817874529171</id><published>2005-05-16T03:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T03:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>charmante! charmante! how&#39;ever cuttlefish over at ...</title><summary type='text'>charmante! charmante! how&#39;ever cuttlefish over at his blog really kicks this one about, along with Queen Perloff! how energetic and taunting and sexy all of this is!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111622817874529171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111622817874529171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116228120000#c111622817874529171' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111621896535688230</id><published>2005-05-16T00:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T00:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Can anyone tell me where I can sign up for a &quot;Lanp...</title><summary type='text'>Can anyone tell me where I can sign up for a &quot;Lanpo&quot; seminar on how to write &quot;langpo&quot;? I would prefer one that offers discounts for senior citizen and grad. students.  Especially if it takes place in Iceland.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, I&#39;d like one that takes it a little easy on the theory.  I fasion myself an Artist and don&#39;t like to think much about things - it just ruins it, don&#39;t you think?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yet,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111621896535688230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111621896535688230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116218940000#c111621896535688230' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111620912232327786</id><published>2005-05-15T22:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T22:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s not a bad answer above, Ron.But what is the...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s not a bad answer above, Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But what is the demotic, really? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And how long does it have after it &quot;arrives,&quot; until it is quiet and dead?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is Cavafy still avant, then? How so, if so?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think these are important questions for the demotics of Language poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620912232327786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620912232327786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116209100000#c111620912232327786' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111620808843653950</id><published>2005-05-15T21:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T21:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Illuminating that those who make fun of formalist ...</title><summary type='text'>Illuminating that those who make fun of formalist writers as such do so anonymously... and fancy that those of us who choose to work in this approach (whether sometimes or all of the time) are stereotyped as locked away in some antediluvean Ivory Cubicle, brushing the suede on our Hush Puppies and tsk-tsking about free verse.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would roll my eyes, but why waste the energy? Check out the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620808843653950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620808843653950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116208080000#c111620808843653950' title=''/><author><name>nolapoet</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13093723433052849060</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1237903846"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111620396155946280</id><published>2005-05-15T20:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T20:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually, Kent, if Cavafy had been an SoQ type, Gr...</title><summary type='text'>Actually, Kent, if Cavafy had been an SoQ type, Greek poetry never would have arrived at the demotic. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But if he&#39;d born in the Bay Area of 1979, his Days of 2005 would have been so dreamy, even if it seemed like an echo of Kevin Killian.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620396155946280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620396155946280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116203940000#c111620396155946280' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111620314000394917</id><published>2005-05-15T20:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T20:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron Silliman said:&gt;&quot;Just because somebody works wi...</title><summary type='text'>Ron Silliman said:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&gt;&quot;Just because somebody works within SoQ traditions &amp; habits doesn&#39;t mean that they cannot be a fine writer, as Justice was. It can make that task quite a bit harder, however.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is good to know: &quot;Better poetry&quot; is... Easier!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Listen up, Cavafy, ey: If only you&#39;d been born in the Bay Area in 1979... All that needless trouble for those &quot;fine&quot; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620314000394917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111620314000394917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116203100000#c111620314000394917' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111619436493809627</id><published>2005-05-15T17:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T17:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There is a lot of social and political energy in d...</title><summary type='text'>There is a lot of social and political energy in dividing people into different groups.  I&#39;m really happy that Ron keeps doing it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It doesn&#39;t matter if he&#39;s right or not.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What matters is that it&#39;s entertaining to entertain poets as falling into one of these two groups.  I like the sporting feeling of it -- the idea of teams, and have you got a game.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s impossible to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111619436493809627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111619436493809627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116194340000#c111619436493809627' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111619167208278747</id><published>2005-05-15T17:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T17:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Let me concur w/ anon above concerning Michael Hef...</title><summary type='text'>Let me concur w/ anon above concerning Michael Heffernan -- his newest book, The Night Breeze Off the Ocean, is terrific.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111619167208278747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111619167208278747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116191640000#c111619167208278747' title=''/><author><name>Tony Tost</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229</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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599768463"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111619149922243027</id><published>2005-05-15T17:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T17:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mezey read some of his own work last night. I foun...</title><summary type='text'>Mezey read some of his own work last night. I found it enjoyable and lively. Several of the panelists discussed Justice&#39;s vigorous criticism, Mezey included. He recalled Justice taking one of his sonnets for review and returning it reduced in red ink to its essential 7 lines. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I heard some of Justice&#39;s poems in traditional forms (some of these forms I had never heard of) as well as some </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111619149922243027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111619149922243027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116191460000#c111619149922243027' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111618780708175313</id><published>2005-05-15T16:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T16:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This roster looks more New (Old) Formalist than So...</title><summary type='text'>This roster looks more New (Old) Formalist than SoQ. Or do you not distinguish between the two (three, four...)? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The late Jim Whitehead once told me that he declined an invitation from R.S. Gwynn - his student and friend - to contribute work to the Rebel Angels anthology. Michael Heffernan, who is arguably one of the best writers of blank verse in America, told me in no uncertain terms </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111618780708175313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111618780708175313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116187800000#c111618780708175313' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111617877453787237</id><published>2005-05-15T13:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T13:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Don was one of my teachers at Iowa.  It was intere...</title><summary type='text'>Don was one of my teachers at Iowa.  It was interesting to realize he had been a contemporary, earlier, of such lights as Henri Coulette, Robert Mezey, Harry Duncan, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, W.D. Snodgrass, and many many others.  He had been there, too, when Grenier, Lally, Tate, et al, were, later.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Justice was a careful man, careful with his words, careful with his opinions, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111617877453787237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111617877453787237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116178740000#c111617877453787237' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111617861654558238</id><published>2005-05-15T13:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T13:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>School of Quietude  Ha!Billy and the Poet MoronsWh...</title><summary type='text'>School of Quietude  Ha!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Billy and the Poet Morons&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Where are the poets&lt;BR/&gt;For the Poet Morons in cubes?&lt;BR/&gt;Give us a break:&lt;BR/&gt;Pretending to work&lt;BR/&gt;Listening to “Werewolves of London”&lt;BR/&gt;Twenty times a day.&lt;BR/&gt;At least.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do you think that, say,&lt;BR/&gt;Mr. Billy Collins&lt;BR/&gt;Will write for us?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hell, no.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anytime he wants&lt;BR/&gt;Sliding outside from his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111617861654558238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111617861654558238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116178560000#c111617861654558238' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111617771539936405</id><published>2005-05-15T13:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-15T13:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron -- I read your blog often, and have learned a ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron -- I read your blog often, and have learned a lot from doing so. I am grateful that you are so generous. But I gotta say, as I believe others have said on many occasions, the us-vs- them posts or partial posts are what I find the least interesting. Isn&#39;t it just too simple? I think the easy cynicism of today&#39;s blog is just too easy. And what&#39;s the point? Isn&#39;t there a way to fight the good </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111617771539936405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111612543083701145/comments/default/111617771539936405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html?showComment=1116177660000#c111617771539936405' 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/only-few-weeks-left-before-school-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111612543083701145' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111612543083701145' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2005"/></entry></feed>