<?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.post112864007218614703..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/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/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>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112979072915144355</id><published>2005-10-20T02:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T02:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with you, Clayton. Here&#39;s to cool Paleolyt...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with you, Clayton. Here&#39;s to cool Paleolythic homeboys. Cheers! Your Pal., Lorna Dee</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112979072915144355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112979072915144355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129790700000#c112979072915144355' title=''/><author><name>Lorna Dee Cervantes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09020619136188745312</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1018401473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112955656216640026</id><published>2005-10-17T09:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-17T09:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Haven&#39;t been to any hunting lodges lately.  What d...</title><summary type='text'>Haven&#39;t been to any hunting lodges lately.  What do they drink there, before those roaring fires?  Maybe there isn&#39;t enough wood, anymore.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Cheers.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112955656216640026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112955656216640026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129556520000#c112955656216640026' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112940722386293620</id><published>2005-10-15T16:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-15T16:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You have it right, Curtis... AA s___ks (ineffectiv...</title><summary type='text'>You have it right, Curtis... AA s___ks (ineffective except for its cult-like aspects) and what you’re doing is either more healthy or more fun.  What I miss most is the convivial moderation of ‘the continent’ but some of us have to check out for good and deal with it, and I am having a ball with it.  Familiar am I with the ‘cheap sedative’ angle back in the day, which in Europe works still in the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112940722386293620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112940722386293620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129407180000#c112940722386293620' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112937230203082839</id><published>2005-10-15T06:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-15T06:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I typically put away about half a bottle of wine a...</title><summary type='text'>I typically put away about half a bottle of wine a day, sometimes a bit more.  I generally make about 3-4 coctails a week.  Then, on occasion, perhaps twice a week, two jiggers of single malt, or the equivalent in brandy or calvados or what-have-you.  In France and much of the rest of Europe, the taking of wine at lunch and dinner is regarded as normal, even healthful, so it&#39;s a bit more </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112937230203082839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112937230203082839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129372260000#c112937230203082839' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 15, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112933044150109170</id><published>2005-10-14T18:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T18:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Not dissing surrealism, just commenting.  The prec...</title><summary type='text'>Not dissing surrealism, just commenting.  The precise definition of alcoholic?  What quantities per day are we talking about?  We&#39;d have to know that, and then we&#39;d have to get precise blood levels.  In a documentary I once saw several women who had been surrealists but had been thrown out were talking about how much Breton drank.  I&#39;m pretty sure that one said he drank an awful lot but I can&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112933044150109170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112933044150109170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129330440000#c112933044150109170' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112932683680490428</id><published>2005-10-14T17:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T17:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Breton was anti-drug and he always felt sorry for ...</title><summary type='text'>Breton was anti-drug and he always felt sorry for people who were alcoholics, such as the residents of Brittany.  His gang was known to pressure each other to swill down the Pernod and other alcools in the early evening but didn’t become drunks.   I don’t know who you are talking about and there was a very low incidence of that in the movement.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Are you by any chance quoting from the ‘</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112932683680490428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112932683680490428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129326780000#c112932683680490428' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112931285959916619</id><published>2005-10-14T14:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T14:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I love Brauner but have never warmed up to Matta. ...</title><summary type='text'>I love Brauner but have never warmed up to Matta.  Brauner&#39;s eye was taken out in an intra-surrealist brawl by Oscar Dominguez, who hailed from the Canary Islands.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m just noting, not really taking a position on Matta-  I did remember the name of the book where I read about the affair Matta had with Gorky&#39;s 20-yr. old wife (Gorky was 40).  It was in a book called Surrealism in Exile.  &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112931285959916619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112931285959916619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129312800000#c112931285959916619' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112930844106310013</id><published>2005-10-14T12:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T12:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I would suggest you get a new ‘garage mecha...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I would suggest you get a new ‘garage mechanic’ if you have such a low opinion of them.  Mine is a great guy; I haven’t left my poetry out for him to comment on but he likes my sculptural assemblages on my back dash.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He would never sleep with Arshile Gorky’s wife, especially when Gorky was in a car accident, and he would never make nice with Sartre, either, another of Matta’s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112930844106310013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112930844106310013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129308420000#c112930844106310013' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112926472393913214</id><published>2005-10-14T00:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-14T00:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The ultimate publicity genius was Ginsberg.  My un...</title><summary type='text'>The ultimate publicity genius was Ginsberg.  My uncle told a story of how he was in Iowa city some fifty years ago when it was a quiet town and there was a traffic jam for several miles in a town that never had traffic jams.  Turns out it was Ginsberg handing out poems and insisting that each car take one.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wish I had that kind of chutzpah.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wish I could write every sentence</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112926472393913214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112926472393913214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129264680000#c112926472393913214' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112925222020485752</id><published>2005-10-13T21:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-13T21:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lester.  Lon Silliman&#39;s dating service does not ex...</title><summary type='text'>Lester.  Lon Silliman&#39;s dating service does not exist.  Of course you&#39;ve now been imprinted with that information and exhibit a tendency to use the jargon haphazardly!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The fact is, Mr. Silliman is concerned with the marketing end of the craft.  Absolutely.  Read the essay in the Horton.  The one which comments on furniture that ought not look too much like its predecessor....how it is.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112925222020485752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112925222020485752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129252200000#c112925222020485752' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112924036314336741</id><published>2005-10-13T17:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-13T17:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Esheman’s attentiveness to those who present their...</title><summary type='text'>Esheman’s attentiveness to those who present their unconscious with minimal mediation has few equals in American literature, evidenced in his efforts as a translator, editor, anthropologist, and professor.  His poetry is at its best when it does the same, and this usually happens when he shakes his other vocations, becomes less of a referential tour guide, and establishes a less rhetorical </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112924036314336741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112924036314336741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129240320000#c112924036314336741' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112911815772373689</id><published>2005-10-12T07:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T07:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Anyone paying any attention to the various prophec...</title><summary type='text'>Anyone paying any attention to the various prophecies and the goings on in the ethereal world knew who you were anyway.  I just spoke the the KA of Auden and he said he had you nailed from the beginning.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112911815772373689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112911815772373689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129118100000#c112911815772373689' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112910460757122076</id><published>2005-10-12T04:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T04:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hell...how did my name get on that!Damn.  Now I&#39;m ...</title><summary type='text'>Hell...how did my name get on that!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Damn.  Now I&#39;m not anonymous.  Must be that flickr site my sister gave me for my birthday.  Damn.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The gift that keeps on giving.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112910460757122076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112910460757122076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129104600000#c112910460757122076' title=''/><author><name>Meg Porter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15948889982895203136</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1935966693"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112910452844593318</id><published>2005-10-12T04:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T04:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well...it&#39;s too bad all I have to go on is the one...</title><summary type='text'>Well...it&#39;s too bad all I have to go on is the one excerpt.  Don&#39;t get many books over here.  But you are welcome to send your files to me (for free) if you like so I can really say what could be said  :)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m afraid that the tossing in of Iraq and Palestine...really introduces a bias to the one little piece I see here...and Ron&#39;s comment about &quot;all the old obsessions&quot; makes me wonder </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112910452844593318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112910452844593318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129104480000#c112910452844593318' title=''/><author><name>Meg Porter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15948889982895203136</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1935966693"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112909630227425283</id><published>2005-10-12T01:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T01:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also...perhaps one of the greatest problems with w...</title><summary type='text'>Also...perhaps one of the greatest problems with writing poetry in our times, especially poetry that is allusory or referential, is that an ever-increasing amount of our knowledge as a culture is either highly specialized or &#39;pop&#39; and superficial.  The lack of a canon of general high knowledge leaves us without a trunk from which to branch off of.  We are either flailing about in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112909630227425283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112909630227425283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129096260000#c112909630227425283' title=''/><author><name>Brett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09958984151677722851</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1222757787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112909538011841315</id><published>2005-10-12T01:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-12T01:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>All things internet have a tendency to dwindle int...</title><summary type='text'>All things internet have a tendency to dwindle into inflammatory hateful things.  Even high-minded poetry blogs will turn into the us/them angry binary. Something about the directness of communication mixed with the anonymity/disconnectedness of the &#39;net causes us to become Defensive when we&#39;re attacked but feel completely removed from the offensiveness inherent in attacking others.      &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112909538011841315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112909538011841315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129095360000#c112909538011841315' title=''/><author><name>Brett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09958984151677722851</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1222757787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112907246203735902</id><published>2005-10-11T19:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T19:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lester,I don&#39;t know why you are so upset by the co...</title><summary type='text'>Lester,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know why you are so upset by the comments.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If anything, I think the main problem with the comments section is that they often devolve into subjective tangents which stray far from the pertinent matter at hand.  They&#39;re usually interesting, despite occasionally being impertinent.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t see a tide of feeling or opinion against Ron, as you seem to.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112907246203735902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112907246203735902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129072440000#c112907246203735902' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112906969386534659</id><published>2005-10-11T18:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T18:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>interesting...</title><summary type='text'>interesting...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112906969386534659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112906969386534659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129069680000#c112906969386534659' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-355639647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112906927995283517</id><published>2005-10-11T18:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T18:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The comments to Ron&#39;s blog become more absurd by t...</title><summary type='text'>The comments to Ron&#39;s blog become more absurd by the day.  Why so many see fit to attack so regularly is nearly beyond my comprehension.  I&#39;ll find two or three interesting comments, constructive comments, and then find individuals who apparently find bringing a flamethrower to a library a useful rhetorical strategy.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To those who dream of bringing down the Imagined Kingdom of Ron: is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112906927995283517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112906927995283517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129069260000#c112906927995283517' title=''/><author><name>Lester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04219479023387881600</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1478288716"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112906078875349090</id><published>2005-10-11T15:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T15:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis-If we were to sit and talk at length, I&#39;m s...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis-&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If we were to sit and talk at length, I&#39;m sure you&#39;d find that I agree with you on a great number of things.  Particularly on the thoughts you expressed above regarding the phenomenon of obscure reference in poetry.  I certainly wouldn&#39;t begin to argue with you on Eshleman&#39;s poem, poetry, or general knowledge base.  All three of which are well outside my scope of knowledge.  &lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112906078875349090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112906078875349090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129060740000#c112906078875349090' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-355639647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112905073191863235</id><published>2005-10-11T13:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T13:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Lon, sounds like you had a great day in Dyoublo...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Lon, sounds like you had a great day in Dyoublong. Three days on the batter? Don&#39;t think I could stay that pace any more. Nice touch about Ha&#39;penny translating to Hate me in Dublinese. WB Yeats really did hate it I seem to recall, thought it grotesque; I guess it looked too modern/industrial for him at that time. There&#39;s a kitsch statue of Lynott, recently unveiled outside McDaid&#39;s pub off </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112905073191863235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112905073191863235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129050720000#c112905073191863235' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112904822803262647</id><published>2005-10-11T12:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T12:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Following up on the Jack B yeats allusion in South...</title><summary type='text'>Following up on the Jack B yeats allusion in Southside&#39;s poems I discover:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;surfaced around 11 to sounds of housekeeping. took the bus back into town with una&#39;s friends from the wedding party jefferey and terese. the tull song &quot;jefferey goes to leicester square&quot; rings in my head on the whole way back. call sarah from near the liffey and she is right around the corner. she has been out </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112904822803262647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112904822803262647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129048200000#c112904822803262647' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112904292728007194</id><published>2005-10-11T11:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T11:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Response to &quot;jehza&quot;:  I stand by Ron&#39;s initial def...</title><summary type='text'>Response to &quot;jehza&quot;:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I stand by Ron&#39;s initial definition of his blog&#39;s raison d&#39;etre, to be a discussion of current poetics issues, events and people, from the viewpoint of one who deliberately occupies an avant-garde predisposition--that&#39;s not a quote, but close enough, I think.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Squawkbox is another thing entirely.  I was NOT attempting to validate or excuse something I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112904292728007194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112904292728007194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129042920000#c112904292728007194' 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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112904008004179979</id><published>2005-10-11T10:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T10:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Southside:is it possible that I, unwittingly, sat...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Southside:is it possible that I, unwittingly, sat down on your pet chihuahua, while I was in Dublin, summer of 2003?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Clayton, I traded Fifi for a grass snake in 2001. You&#39;re probably - unconsciously - thinking of my familiar, Rufus, an 18 stone, invisible pygmy shrew [sic], who tells me he actually sat on you without you realising it (and may still be sitting on you - your face would </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112904008004179979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112904008004179979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129040040000#c112904008004179979' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112903982535744967</id><published>2005-10-11T10:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-11T10:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;This narrative structure (call it that) is so bur...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;This narrative structure (call it that) is so buried none of us picked it up. Are we careless readers? Sure, some of us are. Some of us heard the old obsessions, and let the two mentions of Matta&#39;s name disappear into the folds.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Amazing! Somebody actually SAID IT!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To illustrate that point further, take the following:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Oh Ling, when among my seniors&lt;BR/&gt;in that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112903982535744967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112864007218614703/comments/default/112903982535744967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html?showComment=1129039800000#c112903982535744967' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2005/10/response-to-silliman-and-others-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112864007218614703' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112864007218614703' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 11, 2005"/></entry></feed>