<?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.post113008526764851751..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/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.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>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113059834117662752</id><published>2005-10-29T11:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-29T11:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Roussel was not a surrealist although they admired...</title><summary type='text'>Roussel was not a surrealist although they admired him for some time.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m grateful for the Foucault links.  I was under the impression that he had made a heroic attempt to ignore surrealism.  I can&#39;t really bear to read too much Foucault.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Foucault does NOT seem to have had any humor, although I can think of one small joke he told, and this is part of my problem.  An almost </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113059834117662752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113059834117662752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130598300000#c113059834117662752' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113055479177644531</id><published>2005-10-28T22:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T22:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Foucault also wrote an entire bookon Roussel..</title><summary type='text'>Foucault also wrote an entire book&lt;BR/&gt;on Roussel..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113055479177644531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113055479177644531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130554740000#c113055479177644531' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113037358557363667</id><published>2005-10-26T20:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T20:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I stand by my comment that this thread is a Rorsha...</title><summary type='text'>I stand by my comment that this thread is a Rorshach inkblot test.  That goes for my comments, Ron’s assertion that Ashbery is picking a fight, and your inferences, Kirby, from Ashbery’s picture.   I was worried that there was a poet picture on this month’s blog page you hadn’t commented on.  Maybe Ashbery in the pic is sad because he is far from his garlic press, that he misses his hippy days </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113037358557363667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113037358557363667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130373540000#c113037358557363667' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113037247751116171</id><published>2005-10-26T20:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T20:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The post avant seem to be almost completly without...</title><summary type='text'>The post avant seem to be almost completly without a sense of humor.&lt;BR/&gt;Quod erat demonstratum.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, the SOQ fellows of note I have met seem witty and can tell a joke. Ok, the Irish ones.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113037247751116171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113037247751116171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130372460000#c113037247751116171' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113036236958517314</id><published>2005-10-26T17:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T17:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The surrealists as you know DID ACCEPT Crevel in s...</title><summary type='text'>The surrealists as you know DID ACCEPT Crevel in spite of his homosexuality.  It was the communists who didn&#39;t accept the surrealists (of which he was a part) and this led to his suicide.  But they didn&#39;t not accept him because of his homosexuality.  It was because he was a surrealist, and they told him he had to choose.  There were extenuating factors: tuberculosis, and I think his personal life</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113036236958517314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113036236958517314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130362320000#c113036236958517314' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113036177561063669</id><published>2005-10-26T17:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T17:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, this is interesting how you create a group co...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, this is interesting how you create a group cohesion around &quot;madness,&quot; in Ashbery&#39;s canon.  He himself, I have to say, looks quite mad in the photo given.  Mouth downturned, and a sort of hostility toward the world barely modified by humor of some sort in one eye.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The surrealists of course privileged the insane.  Nadja, the criminal crazies of the era, the notion of insanity is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113036177561063669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113036177561063669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130361720000#c113036177561063669' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113035706799547086</id><published>2005-10-26T16:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-26T16:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The suicide of Rene Crevel seems to have influence...</title><summary type='text'>The suicide of Rene Crevel seems to have influenced Ashbery’s views on Surrealism.. Ashbery seems uncomfortable with the politics and aversion to homosexuality of the movement.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If Surrealism is as Walter Benjamin says ‘the head of the stream’ of an ‘intellectual current’ that he sees from ‘the valley,’ Ashbery translates and pontificates on anyone and everything that wades alongside or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113035706799547086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113035706799547086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130357040000#c113035706799547086' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113027405735122971</id><published>2005-10-25T17:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-25T17:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Does Lon mean that Ashbery and Silliman are New Cr...</title><summary type='text'>Does Lon mean that Ashbery and Silliman are New Critics because they both believe something like there is nothing outside of the text?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I couldn&#39;t understand why he pinned them both to New Criticism.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The postmodern attempt at non-referentiality I think comes rather through Lyotard&#39;s version of Kant, rather than through some kind of close reading.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was confused as to how</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113027405735122971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113027405735122971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130274000000#c113027405735122971' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113026127964321423</id><published>2005-10-25T13:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-25T13:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Anathema started out as to &quot;curse&quot; or excommunicat...</title><summary type='text'>Anathema started out as to &quot;curse&quot; or excommunicate, such as in the 1st letter of Paul to the Corinthians 16:22 (Tinsdale translation of 1526, from OED) &quot;Yf eny man love not the lorde Jesus Christ, the same be anathema maranatha.&quot;  In modern use it means a hatred or loathing..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113026127964321423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113026127964321423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130261220000#c113026127964321423' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113024681196048302</id><published>2005-10-25T09:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-25T09:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;plotless like all dreams&quot; -- he writes.  How much...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;plotless like all dreams&quot; -- he writes.  How much is Ashbery&#39;s project an extension of surrealism&#39;s grand project of connecting dream and life, of throwing a line between night and day as Breton put it in Vases communicants.  Certainly Koch is continuing the surrealist project, as is O&#39;Hara.  He feels an affinity for James Tate, who you often accuse of &quot;soft surrealism.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Clare is not in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113024681196048302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113024681196048302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130246760000#c113024681196048302' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113021143298545777</id><published>2005-10-24T23:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T23:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What&#39;s an anathema?</title><summary type='text'>What&#39;s an anathema?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113021143298545777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113021143298545777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130211420000#c113021143298545777' 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/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-805121679"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113021054275061727</id><published>2005-10-24T23:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T23:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lon Silliman:This is your most brilliant post, and...</title><summary type='text'>Lon Silliman:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is your most brilliant post, and it raises a host of questions and lays a dozen presumptions to rest and takes Ron pertinently to task.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;In general this continual discovery of “other traditions” that one is the successor to and then opposing them to a dominant poetic discourse that these other traditions subvert etc. is just a politicized reading of poetry </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113021054275061727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113021054275061727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130210520000#c113021054275061727' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113020912517561609</id><published>2005-10-24T22:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T22:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I recommend both the Caradecand Ford biographies o...</title><summary type='text'>I recommend both the Caradec&lt;BR/&gt;and Ford biographies of Roussel.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve always wanted to do a painting&lt;BR/&gt;of  Mussollini touring Roussel&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;custom land yacht. Right up there with&lt;BR/&gt;Verlaine smashing his mother&#39;s pickled&lt;BR/&gt;foetuses.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113020912517561609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113020912517561609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130209080000#c113020912517561609' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113020509082111555</id><published>2005-10-24T21:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T21:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading these comments, I wonder whether Ashbury h...</title><summary type='text'>Reading these comments, I wonder whether Ashbury hasn’t become a Rorshach inkblot, perhaps by his own design.  How often do we find a reaction to him that penetrates the text or author, and how often does the person reacting just disclose their own hopes, preferences, anathemas?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113020509082111555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113020509082111555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130205060000#c113020509082111555' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113020338990016014</id><published>2005-10-24T21:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T21:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ismael Archbold runs a brief essay by Schubert on ...</title><summary type='text'>Ismael Archbold runs a brief essay by Schubert on his blog today (one that is quoted by Ashbery pretty much in its entirety). &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A&gt;http://archbold.blogspot.com/2005/10/short-essay-on-poetry-by-david.html&lt;/A&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113020338990016014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113020338990016014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130203380000#c113020338990016014' 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/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113017747243706855</id><published>2005-10-24T14:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T14:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>All would do well to remember that: &quot;John Ashbery ...</title><summary type='text'>All would do well to remember that: &quot;John Ashbery the person has remained above the petty poetry wars of his generation, beloved by post-avants &amp; quietists alike, save for a churlish few ...&quot; From hence, St John of Ashberry--&lt;BR/&gt;Unifier miraculous of the seventy and two jarring sects of poetry. Let us march as one. Lead on, St. John, to victory .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113017747243706855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113017747243706855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130177460000#c113017747243706855' 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/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-805121679"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113016979735677613</id><published>2005-10-24T12:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T12:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It’s very disconcerting whenever for some reason y...</title><summary type='text'>It’s very disconcerting whenever for some reason you actually “explicate” a poem.  One would expect a turning away from the “this represents this” and “here let’s remember what so and so said about this” and maybe that is what the poet meant and really the whole method – in which you essentially interpret the poem as allegory, worry about what Joanna represents and glom onto mythic oaks with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113016979735677613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113016979735677613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130169780000#c113016979735677613' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113016027579317715</id><published>2005-10-24T09:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T09:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This sounds interesting especially the Clare who&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>This sounds interesting especially the Clare who&#39;s an up and comer again after all these years thanks to the eco-critics.  Clare&#39;s one of the few Romantics (he actually lived into the Victorian era, I think) who describes nature without it becoming personal symbolism.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But Ashbery is strange because he manages to be considered avant-garde at the same time he almost DEFINES the New </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113016027579317715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113016027579317715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130160240000#c113016027579317715' 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/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113015616903505581</id><published>2005-10-24T08:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T08:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have no quarrel with criticism. Criticism is a p...</title><summary type='text'>I have no quarrel with criticism. Criticism is a petard, placed carefully by critics at each others&#39; gates.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What continues to crack me up is how, after all this time, even the most postmodern of poetry continually risks falling backwards into narrative even (and especially) as it climbs the ladder of literary success.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I continue hope for deeper associations in poetry than even </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113015616903505581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113015616903505581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130156160000#c113015616903505581' 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/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113015537207981270</id><published>2005-10-24T08:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T08:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Kind Valentine&quot; sounds like a poem John Shade mig...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Kind Valentine&quot; sounds like a poem John Shade might have written, if he&#39;d been spared the assassin&#39;s bullet &amp; doddered into his dotage.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113015537207981270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113008526764851751/comments/default/113015537207981270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html?showComment=1130155320000#c113015537207981270' 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/2005/10/because-he-is-most-gracious-of-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008526764851751' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113008526764851751' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry></feed>