<?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.post113767606022873291..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/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.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>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113790052054788761</id><published>2006-01-21T22:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-21T22:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Straight&quot; with no kinks.  The guy who invented ve...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Straight&quot; with no kinks.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The guy who invented velcro made millions.  Ditto the guy who invented the paperclip, and the trailerhouse lady who invented &quot;white-out&quot; before typewriters went away.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Interesting twist.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Twine.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Making babies is what sex is for.  Everything else is bent.  But it&#39;s so much fun, no religion can control it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let us pray.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113790052054788761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113790052054788761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137900480000#c113790052054788761' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113778885236835650</id><published>2006-01-20T15:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T15:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I hate the word &quot;straight&quot;; it implicitly suggests...</title><summary type='text'>I hate the word &quot;straight&quot;; it implicitly suggests that homosexuality is crooked, and although some small populations might favor crookedness, most don&#39;t, so please, unless you&#39;re meaning to be conservative, spell out all those syllables that make heterosexual.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113778885236835650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113778885236835650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137788820000#c113778885236835650' title=''/><author><name>AdamS</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09096290298598957982</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-952611351"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113776815702114062</id><published>2006-01-20T09:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T09:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i have a close personal friend( a woman) who has b...</title><summary type='text'>i have a close personal friend&lt;BR/&gt;( a woman) who has been a funeral director for many years, and I was struck by both the seeming detail (for the uninitiated, and its lack, in my case knowing some of the specifics of mortuary practice) in the stanza about the young murdered woman..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My friend has described to me&lt;BR/&gt;a similiar case where a victim of a violent murder had to be reassembled</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113776815702114062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113776815702114062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137768120000#c113776815702114062' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113776481425723796</id><published>2006-01-20T08:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T08:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Loewinsohn&#39;s withdrawal&#39;s somewhat of a mystery.He...</title><summary type='text'>Loewinsohn&#39;s withdrawal&#39;s somewhat of a mystery.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He, along with David Meltzer and John Wieners, was the youngest members of the San Francisco poetry scene in the late -50&#39;s/early &#39;60&#39;s.  Everyone liked him.  He got beautiful pamphlets done by Black Sparrow and Four Seasons, and was successfully pursuing an academic career at Berkeley, eventually receiving a Ph.D. (I think at Harvard).  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113776481425723796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113776481425723796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137764760000#c113776481425723796' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113775908270249977</id><published>2006-01-20T07:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T07:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lanny,Against the Silences to Come is Loewinsohn&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>Lanny,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;B&gt;Against the Silences to Come&lt;/B&gt; is Loewinsohn&#39;s masterpiece as a poet. And, yes, I&#39;d agree that he&#39;s been neglected, tho I think it was his decision to step away from the scene as he settled into his career as a teacher.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113775908270249977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113775908270249977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137759060000#c113775908270249977' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113775798220865289</id><published>2006-01-20T06:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T06:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I couldn&#39;t help giving this piece a scatological s...</title><summary type='text'>I couldn&#39;t help giving this piece a scatological spin. I am in my office contemplating what&#39;s next, trying to remember the quite female poet who won the 100,000 dollars. The one Paul Muldoon bigged up and who my scant googled gleanings of her suggested she is a worthy recipient of an unnassuming poetry oscar for ploughing her own furrow all these years with her short compact pieces. I can&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113775798220865289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113775798220865289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137757980000#c113775798220865289' title=''/><author><name>Scalljah</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14578109925453070447</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1613744976"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113774297586279918</id><published>2006-01-20T02:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-20T02:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>wait, wait...just found a small &quot;connectorino&quot;with...</title><summary type='text'>wait, wait...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;just found a small &quot;connectorino&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;within the recent matrix:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;ron&#39;s given us the neglectorino&lt;BR/&gt;thread, the linh dinh eros-meat-lang thread, and the recent quietude strand,,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;was just reading&lt;BR/&gt;Ron Loewinsohn&#39;s _Meat Air_&lt;BR/&gt;and came across the poem called&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Against the Silences to Come&lt;BR/&gt;which somewhat neatly ties&lt;BR/&gt;all of these threads </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113774297586279918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113774297586279918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137742920000#c113774297586279918' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113772350326489775</id><published>2006-01-19T21:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T21:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>shhhhhh...all this chatter about &quot;Quietude&quot; is a b...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;shhhhhh&lt;/I&gt;...all this chatter about &quot;Quietude&quot; is a bit loud. There are people sleeping, you know.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113772350326489775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113772350326489775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137723480000#c113772350326489775' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09851500170786902924</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-161454167"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113771563909673935</id><published>2006-01-19T19:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T19:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jim:Or is Ron the Oprah of poetry?(Sorry, Ron....)...</title><summary type='text'>Jim:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Or is Ron the Oprah of poetry?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Sorry, Ron....)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;New on poetry books at Borders:  &quot;The Ron Poetry Blog Club&quot; sticker.  Guaranteed sales of a quarter million nation-wide.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113771563909673935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113771563909673935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137715620000#c113771563909673935' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113770798834827105</id><published>2006-01-19T16:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T16:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Common Areas&quot; seemed so quiet to me on first enco...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Common Areas&quot; seemed so quiet to me on first encounter, I skipped over it, thinking it looked prosaic and dull. The next time I picked it up (three or four days ago), I spent at least fifteen minutes with it, in a state of sustained fascination. It&#39;s my favorite piece in Poker 7, for pretty much exactly the reasons you give, Ron (though I&#39;m skeptical in general of such micro-analyses of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113770798834827105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113770798834827105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137707940000#c113770798834827105' title=''/><author><name>K. Silem Mohammad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02565830726695506296</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-156654236"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113770775758161718</id><published>2006-01-19T16:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T16:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113770775758161718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113770775758161718'/><author><name>K. Silem Mohammad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02565830726695506296</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-156654236"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113769689379174860</id><published>2006-01-19T13:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T13:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Henry--Shelve those books!xxxjimmy</title><summary type='text'>Henry--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Shelve those books!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769689379174860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769689379174860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137696840000#c113769689379174860' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113769680410036122</id><published>2006-01-19T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T13:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the first appearance of thequietude langue-chimera...</title><summary type='text'>the first appearance of the&lt;BR/&gt;quietude langue-chimera in&lt;BR/&gt;the svelte albionic nomen-beast&lt;BR/&gt;is &lt;BR/&gt;appropriately&lt;BR/&gt;within a manual of chirurgy..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau&#39;s Fr. Chirurg. 46b/2 That parte requireth nothinge els then quietude.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is silenzio still&lt;BR/&gt;preignant ye &lt;BR/&gt;monstrado of Syrurgye&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;methinks i&#39;tis...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769680410036122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769680410036122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137696780000#c113769680410036122' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113769440248985255</id><published>2006-01-19T13:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T13:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Behrle, get back to your dippy drawing board, befo...</title><summary type='text'>Behrle, get back to your dippy drawing board, before I lend thee a quietus from which you will never habilipotato.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769440248985255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769440248985255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137694380000#c113769440248985255' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113769186208732252</id><published>2006-01-19T12:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T12:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Until I read Jeanine Scramboli I thought the late ...</title><summary type='text'>Until I read Jeanine Scramboli I thought the late Piernas Abiertas was the best Chicana poet ever.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769186208732252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769186208732252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137691860000#c113769186208732252' title=''/><author><name>RC</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14678775084337683859</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-928133795"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113769101526795965</id><published>2006-01-19T12:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T12:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Enough with the fucking Quietude. Are you in love ...</title><summary type='text'>Enough with the fucking Quietude. Are you in love with your own voice, Ron? Is that how you wanna be remembered? Your lasting memory to be a catchphrase? Poetry&#39;s &quot;Where&#39;s the Beef&quot; Lady? Enough: it&#39;s Republican Talk Radio Bullshit and you&#39;re smarter than that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769101526795965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769101526795965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137690960000#c113769101526795965' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113769051434765341</id><published>2006-01-19T12:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T12:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>one resonance i see thatron might have picked up o...</title><summary type='text'>one resonance i see that&lt;BR/&gt;ron might have picked up on&lt;BR/&gt;is this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Borderless Bodies &lt;-&gt; Common Areas</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769051434765341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113769051434765341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137690480000#c113769051434765341' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113768720068902288</id><published>2006-01-19T11:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T11:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>bet she said itquietly rather than explosively</title><summary type='text'>bet she said it&lt;BR/&gt;quietly &lt;BR/&gt;rather than &lt;BR/&gt;explosively</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113768720068902288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113768720068902288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137687180000#c113768720068902288' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113768642416889964</id><published>2006-01-19T11:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T11:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jeanine was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature...</title><summary type='text'>Jeanine was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967.  However, she immediately notified the Committee (through an intermediary - her swim instructor at the Modesto YMCA) that she was declining the award.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When reporters asked WHY????, Jeanine replied with three letters : &quot;TNT.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113768642416889964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113768642416889964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137686400000#c113768642416889964' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113768334005624914</id><published>2006-01-19T10:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T10:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Quietude, which is a literary movement of angloph...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Quietude, which is a literary movement of anglophiles that historically has accumulated &amp; concentrated what little institutional power may be available to poetry while denying that it exists.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;AHA  and HARRRRRR&lt;BR/&gt;at long last&lt;BR/&gt;a definition I can&lt;BR/&gt;comprehend&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;henry&lt;BR/&gt;I think your Jeanine&lt;BR/&gt;is just obscure enough&lt;BR/&gt;to be nominated&lt;BR/&gt;if not win&lt;BR/&gt;a Nobel . . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113768334005624914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113768334005624914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137683340000#c113768334005624914' title=''/><author><name>suzanne</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18396449966859846043</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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-769341666"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767956894942493</id><published>2006-01-19T09:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-19T09:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jeanine Scramboli is considered the quietest poet ...</title><summary type='text'>Jeanine Scramboli is considered the quietest poet of her generation.  No one has ever heard of her until now, when I just mentioned her name for the first time, and broke the silence of eons &amp; galaxies &amp; arcana.  Jeanine is a retired sub-librarian living in (very modestly, it must be said), in Modesto.  She has written exactly one poem in her entire very quiet life.  The poem is titled &quot;Whisper&quot;,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113767956894942493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113767606022873291/comments/default/113767956894942493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html?showComment=1137679560000#c113767956894942493' 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/2006/01/it-was-sign-of-just-how-strong-my.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113767606022873291' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113767606022873291' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2006"/></entry></feed>