<?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.post111946312259377669..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/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112069754189101566</id><published>2005-07-06T20:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-06T20:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I’ve never written to a blog before.  So I feel ki...</title><summary type='text'>I’ve never written to a blog before.  So I feel kind of raw and honored.  I certainly am grateful for what Ron wrote and that it received some diverse attention from others. I didn’t find it until last night.  I just want to comment briefly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Curtis’s idea that I may seek a measure of invention (or awareness, or initiative, or . . .) has an appealing ring something like truth, but</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/112069754189101566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/112069754189101566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1120697520000#c112069754189101566' title=''/><author><name>Steve Benson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04489834350434119127</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1965733895"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 06, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111967161653712784</id><published>2005-06-24T23:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T23:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i try to write everyday at least on my weblog. i a...</title><summary type='text'>i try to write everyday at least on my weblog. i am in the process of publishing another volume of poems. i hope i edit this time around</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111967161653712784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111967161653712784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119671580000#c111967161653712784' title=''/><author><name>Billy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16247048418094476365</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-997251276"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111966170959268798</id><published>2005-06-24T21:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T21:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have this schedule of two pages daily, more rigi...</title><summary type='text'>I have this schedule of two pages daily, more rigidly so when I have too many other things to do. Of course eighty percent of it is crap, but of what is functional to my intentions I rewrite or revise extremely little. That doesn&#39;t mean, of course that it is a &quot;First burp&quot;-thing. &lt;BR/&gt;As for Steve Benson, this is some of the most living poetry I&#39;ve seen by him, so maybe this constraint, whether </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111966170959268798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111966170959268798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119661680000#c111966170959268798' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01806125682945620667</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1614710080"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111964840427632364</id><published>2005-06-24T17:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T17:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I suspect Steve Benson thought the project may yie...</title><summary type='text'>I suspect Steve Benson thought the project may yield interesting results, was delighted when it did &amp; so decided to share with friends. Nothing more sophisticated than that. The results are beautiful (the ones Ron has shared with us anyway) &amp; I would dearly love to see the complete work. Great photo as well. I had no idea how he looked. A face full of life &amp; light.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111964840427632364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111964840427632364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119648360000#c111964840427632364' title=''/><author><name>stefen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05855987428686809866</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-543969392"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111964087317704340</id><published>2005-06-24T15:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T15:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I try to sit for five minutes every day without wr...</title><summary type='text'>I try to sit for five minutes every day without writing a blessed thing.  I haven&#39;t found a publisher for this yet, but... wait a minute! - sheesh - I was SITTING on one!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111964087317704340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111964087317704340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119640860000#c111964087317704340' 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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111963226506244672</id><published>2005-06-24T12:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T12:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In this case, the sitting is acting as a formal co...</title><summary type='text'>In this case, the sitting is acting as a formal constraint (he&#39;s writing every hour on the hour for five minutes at a time) which must, by definition, necessarily affect both form and content. I like this project because the &quot;spontaneity&quot; of the project is internally thwarted by the expectation (and perhaps anxiety) of having to &quot;perform&quot; the sitting as the top of each hour approaches, thus it&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111963226506244672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111963226506244672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119632220000#c111963226506244672' title=''/><author><name>Carton Tragedy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06542989177956491967</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1629265714"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111962800504144567</id><published>2005-06-24T11:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T11:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like the texts just fine, but I&#39;m troubled by th...</title><summary type='text'>I like the texts just fine, but I&#39;m troubled by the definition of &quot;the sitting&quot; as a &quot;formal&quot; device. I can read the poems&#39; formal choices -- line breaks, syntax, the persistent &quot;I&quot; -- as an enactment of spontaneous attention commenting on itself, and that&#39;s a rewarding reading, but, I would say obviously, not the only pleasure to be had here. When I&#39;m told &quot;I wrote these down in five minutes and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111962800504144567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111962800504144567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119627960000#c111962800504144567' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111961954873364742</id><published>2005-06-24T09:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T09:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The early Modernists, such as Stein, or Yeats (to ...</title><summary type='text'>The early Modernists, such as Stein, or Yeats (to name two entirely different kinds of technicians), were keenly interested in &quot;automatic&quot; writing, or what the unconscious or untutored mind could/would do without the complete control of rational discipline to guide it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Quietists will almost always credit the value(s) in rewriting, revising, slaving over text to achieve greater degrees </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111961954873364742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111946312259377669/comments/default/111961954873364742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html?showComment=1119619500000#c111961954873364742' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2005/06/while-i-may-not-approve-of-idea-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111946312259377669' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111946312259377669' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2005"/></entry></feed>