<?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.post1614876556046924341..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/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/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>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2512972688885886580</id><published>2007-05-18T06:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-18T06:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jorie Graham never hit me between the eyes, but he...</title><summary type='text'>Jorie Graham never hit me between the eyes, but hey. This did.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;No woman wants to be known as anything but a &quot;young woman&quot;. &lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t want to be a &quot;young woman&quot;. Being a &quot;young woman&quot; was just an open invitation to patronising shits. Being an older woman is brilliant. My pin-up gal is Helene Cixous.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2512972688885886580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2512972688885886580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1179485220000#c2512972688885886580' title=''/><author><name>Alison Croggon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08398213223487458758</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1912733387"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-423606090223443533</id><published>2007-05-12T14:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-12T14:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Nick:I think you&#39;re confusing several things,...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Nick:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you&#39;re confusing several things, not least the laws regarding defamation.  You lack a sense of proportion.  Critical wisecracks and casual opinon regarding the work of published writers rarely, if ever, rises to the level of actionable content.  Referring to someone as &quot;young&quot; when in fact he/she may no longer be technically &quot;young&quot; certainly doesn&#39;t fall within that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/423606090223443533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/423606090223443533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178995260000#c423606090223443533' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6766454387578783731</id><published>2007-05-11T16:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T16:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis: here you are on a major poet&#39;s blog and yo...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis: here you are on a major poet&#39;s blog and you simply cannot concede that blogs are times when we should be just as precise with our language as any other times. You do not have the right to make false claims about someone at all, even on a blog. This was a very mild matter but before you act like a blowhard and think that you can make up LIES about someone (your comment about Graham&#39;s age </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/6766454387578783731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/6766454387578783731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178914740000#c6766454387578783731' title=''/><author><name>Nicholas</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05698040624404533055</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1678336006"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1845139792879901344</id><published>2007-05-11T10:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-11T10:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not out to offend anyone by accident, but it w...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not out to offend anyone by accident, but it will happen whether or not you strive to avoid doing so.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your response implies that referring to a woman as a &quot;young woman&quot; is in fact a potentially damaging cliche, filled with negative association and condescending chauvinism.  Obviously that&#39;s quite a stretch from the ordinary conventions as they continue to be used every day.  I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/1845139792879901344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/1845139792879901344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178893920000#c1845139792879901344' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1755431444602683358</id><published>2007-05-10T15:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T15:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Art of the LineFor those who imagine that how ...</title><summary type='text'>The Art of the Line&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For those who imagine that how a poem looks on a page has little or nothing to do with how a poem reads or that hearing a poem read is the same as reading the poem on the page for themselves or that they can judge a poet&#39;s qualifications as a poet of any worth by such limited experiences of same, this poem is for you.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Put another way:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For those who </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/1755431444602683358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/1755431444602683358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178826300000#c1755431444602683358' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09662165125459742277</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1820782746"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3558780942846050255</id><published>2007-05-10T11:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T11:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis -- If you can sense the difference between:...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis -- If you can sense the difference between: &quot;she&#39;s a young woman of talent&quot; and &quot;she&#39;s a talented poet,&quot; then you&#39;ll understand what I&#39;m saying when I point out that your statement was sexist. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Agreed, all words carry baggage (one version of  what I understand Ron to mean as &quot;context&quot;) but I don&#39;t see why we, especially as word-loving poets, shouldn&#39;t attempt to suss out &amp; take a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/3558780942846050255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/3558780942846050255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178812320000#c3558780942846050255' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-598490346137584915</id><published>2007-05-10T11:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T11:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, Just two things:&quot;No woman wants to be know...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just two things:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;No woman wants to be known as anything but a &quot;young woman&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is factually inaccurate. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Calling someone like Graham a &quot;young woman&quot; is not a sexist remark because that&#39;s generally how she&#39;ll be treated&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is logically fallacious. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m just sayin&#39;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Andy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/598490346137584915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/598490346137584915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178810940000#c598490346137584915' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/yeller.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4710808834459260969</id><published>2007-05-10T09:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T09:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>dream gazette:Sex is like bodies.  If I&#39;m fat, or ...</title><summary type='text'>dream gazette:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sex is like bodies.  If I&#39;m fat, or thin, and someone says &quot;that fat person over there&quot; or &quot;that thin person over there&quot; is literally the same thing as saying &quot;that young woman over there&quot; or &quot;that older woman over there&quot;.  No woman wants to be known as anything but a &quot;young woman&quot;--it&#39;s one of the conceits of our culture.  &quot;Young&quot; is pretty relative, too.  That&#39;s been a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/4710808834459260969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/4710808834459260969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178805420000#c4710808834459260969' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2261268415309272509</id><published>2007-05-09T23:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T23:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis -- When you use phrases like &quot;she&#39;s a young...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis -- When you use phrases like &quot;she&#39;s a young woman with talent&quot; blah blah blah, you&#39;re playing the wise old man thing, one of the oldest put-downs in the book, especially from older male poets toward women poets (of any age, obviously). I can get past the fact that you are consistently dismissive of so very much--enough, anyway, to at least hear your opinion, because you&#39;re clearly so </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2261268415309272509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2261268415309272509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178767680000#c2261268415309272509' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8055272872809586184</id><published>2007-05-09T14:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T14:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear bloodbelter:  Okay, I should have said &quot;was o...</title><summary type='text'>Dear bloodbelter:  Okay, I should have said &quot;was once&quot; a young woman.  This would make Graham a has-been, whereas, in my view, she&#39;s simply a once-was who became a never-wasn&#39;t.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Graham&#39;s career arc--as a workshop student who became a workshop teacher--and is, in effect, a workshop writer--is so patently egoistic and self-serving in its lineaments that I&#39;m at a loss to regard it as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/8055272872809586184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/8055272872809586184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178735160000#c8055272872809586184' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2930225663070437816</id><published>2007-05-09T10:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T10:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In his essay on Eigner in Total Syntax, Watten dis...</title><summary type='text'>In his essay on Eigner in Total Syntax, Watten discusses the minute decisions involving the precise placement of lines/words in a poem on the vertical axis, proposing an aesthetic based on such &quot;effects.&quot;  This discussion then didn&#39;t adequately address the issue of equivalent spacing in relation to distributed spacing, but it acknowledged the technique employed by this disciple (and pioneer) of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2930225663070437816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2930225663070437816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178720880000#c2930225663070437816' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2688554311775656390</id><published>2007-05-09T09:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T09:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis--Thank you for your last response.In that r...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you for your last response.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In that response you said the following about Jorie Graham: &quot;She&#39;s a young woman of talent--of whom, at any given time, there are perhaps three dozen in the wings--who got it into her head that she would &#39;strike out&#39; and claim new ground as a poet.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jorie Graham is around 57 years old. She was born in 1950. She is not a young </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2688554311775656390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/2688554311775656390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178718900000#c2688554311775656390' title=''/><author><name>Bloodbelter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12804477957112316389</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-624678943"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6658536615484492556</id><published>2007-05-09T02:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T02:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis uses the word effects to talk about innovat...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis uses the word &lt;I&gt;effects&lt;/I&gt; to talk about innovation in line break and spacing. I find it to be the most useful term. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, I&#39;m sure word processing is making its mark in the writing process. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In my poems that don&#39;t assume the primacy of left justification (I&#39;m not talking politics here), I always feel lazy if I simply use the &quot;tab&quot; key... and if I do it, for the sake </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/6658536615484492556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/6658536615484492556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178690400000#c6658536615484492556' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/yeller.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-856555147902051835</id><published>2007-05-09T01:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T01:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Is the question announced in your opening sen...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is the question announced in your opening sentence the question in the penultimate paragraph? It&#39;s hard to tell what you&#39;re asking.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps because the line (or, more specifically, the line break) is a matter of obsessive concern for me, I&#39;m always amazed that people don&#39;t think about this stuff all the time.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know if it&#39;s an &quot;SOQ thing,&quot; but the (a?) </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/856555147902051835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/856555147902051835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178689920000#c856555147902051835' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/yeller.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5216424117522778469</id><published>2007-05-09T00:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T00:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I found Bloodbelter&#39;s comments quite cogent. And a...</title><summary type='text'>I found Bloodbelter&#39;s comments quite cogent. And articulated at some length. Sad sucks to what follows&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Would that all the lord&#39;s people were prophets.&quot; One thinks that a puzzle to be wrestled with, however one regards the authority of its source. And that knee-jerk performs rather poorly as a pugilistic move, or as a form of &quot;intellectual warfare,&quot; again, howsoever understood&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/5216424117522778469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/5216424117522778469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178683620000#c5216424117522778469' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7256352616630680514</id><published>2007-05-08T23:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T23:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jack GilbertJorie GrahamJG</title><summary type='text'>Jack Gilbert&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jorie Graham&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;JG</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/7256352616630680514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/7256352616630680514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178681160000#c7256352616630680514' 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='27' height='32' src='http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/imago/2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6709924529301695680</id><published>2007-05-08T23:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T23:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear bloodbelter:  Be cool, my man.  You were the ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear bloodbelter:  Be cool, my man.  You were the transmitter of a certain rubric which I found amusing.  I didn&#39;t take the trouble to engage it seriously, because I don&#39;t accept Graham as a valid exemplar.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My post was not meant as an attack on you, but on the presumptuous nonsense you&#39;d been fed in graduate school as a critical approach to the kind of writing which Graham practices (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/6709924529301695680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/6709924529301695680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178681040000#c6709924529301695680' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8370398041565545479</id><published>2007-05-08T22:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T22:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i heard jorie graham read a few years agoand i rem...</title><summary type='text'>i heard jorie graham read a few years ago&lt;BR/&gt;and i remember being bored silly&lt;BR/&gt;only amused by her rather jerky stopping and starting &lt;BR/&gt;and a lot of breathing&lt;BR/&gt;and then descriptions of what she was actually writing&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and i recall wondering how the stuff looks on the page&lt;BR/&gt;but i never bothered to look it up&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i confess&lt;BR/&gt;no matter how it pans out on the line and its </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/8370398041565545479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/8370398041565545479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178676960000#c8370398041565545479' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8984423250691702842</id><published>2007-05-08T19:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T19:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I clearly said in my comments that I don&#39;t endorse...</title><summary type='text'>I clearly said in my comments that I don&#39;t endorse or reject this &quot;performance of prophecy.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I tried to convey what I saw to be one of the impulses that governed some (though not all) of Graham&#39;s (and Grossman&#39;s) stepped lineation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I took pains to say that this high modernist impulse of Graham and others is a &quot;bias&quot; (that&#39;s one of the words that I use).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No: I do not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/8984423250691702842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/8984423250691702842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178665920000#c8984423250691702842' title=''/><author><name>Bloodbelter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12804477957112316389</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-624678943"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5982147370775114185</id><published>2007-05-08T17:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T17:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lady J,I can reject comments, but I cannot &quot;correc...</title><summary type='text'>Lady J,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can reject comments, but I cannot &quot;correct&quot; them, spelling wise or politically.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;;-)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/5982147370775114185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/5982147370775114185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178661300000#c5982147370775114185' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-916593427211377737</id><published>2007-05-08T12:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T12:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Heh.  And the least you could do Ron is correct my...</title><summary type='text'>Heh.  And the least you could do Ron is correct my spelling.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hahaha.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What I am saying is that a line is only as good as the thought behind it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No margin will improve a weak thought nor will a short split up line dilute what is already there.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/916593427211377737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/916593427211377737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178642880000#c916593427211377737' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='18' src='http://static.flickr.com/29/98495715_9b4a202fcf_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-871782955367950932</id><published>2007-05-08T11:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T11:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm.  I&#39;m not gonna touch that &quot;Jewish Prophetic&quot; ...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm.  I&#39;m not gonna touch that &quot;Jewish Prophetic&quot; tradition bullish with a ten foot pole except to say, there are the two inches of it Mr. Bloodbelter.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Since when?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And this is overkill to say the least.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The line break best described (to me) was by an anonymous little teenage poet-in-waiting on some vacous little poetry message board who said:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;BRAIN WAVES (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/871782955367950932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/871782955367950932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178639760000#c871782955367950932' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='18' src='http://static.flickr.com/29/98495715_9b4a202fcf_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1251300137184189521</id><published>2007-05-08T11:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T11:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I usually don&#39;t have lines long enough to worry ab...</title><summary type='text'>I usually don&#39;t have lines long enough to worry about the wrap-around, unless they are prose-like lines, and then I just break it to the left margin and start a new &quot;sentence&quot; immediately following.  I consider each new line its own line, rather than a continuation of the previous line, even if it&#39;s part of the same sentence or thought/image.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Usually I break my lines in many different </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/1251300137184189521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/1251300137184189521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178638980000#c1251300137184189521' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Bach</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00623252725909826749</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-605189307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320026449438740802</id><published>2007-05-08T11:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T11:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think it&#39;s definitely the case that word-process...</title><summary type='text'>I think it&#39;s definitely the case that word-processing software has made poets (and other kinds of writers) able to _think_ more freely about lines and other structural features of their writing. (And hence, to negotiate with their publishers about how the lines should appear on the page.) With more sophisticated self-publishing going on I think we&#39;ll see more of this.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Interestingly, this</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/320026449438740802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/320026449438740802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178637180000#c320026449438740802' title=''/><author><name>Tiel Aisha Ansari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03994169558252043919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_PrYnug9SYl0/RfAtQKUW8ZI/AAAAAAAAAAc/VOR-9ZYkAP0/s320/Picture+001.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659844337"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-88770492813942928</id><published>2007-05-08T10:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T10:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, I definitely got an &quot;overload&quot; (see the post...</title><summary type='text'>Well, I definitely got an &quot;overload&quot; (see the post above by bloodbelter) of Jorie Graham here.  I think anyone who believes she is &quot;performing prophecy&quot; by writing carryover lines may need to see a therapist.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The impact of speech-based poetics upon typographic styles (and visa versa) is an interesting side-light in the history of the printed word.  Whitman was limited by the width of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/88770492813942928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1614876556046924341/comments/default/88770492813942928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html?showComment=1178636160000#c88770492813942928' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/05/i-have-question-about-line-and.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1614876556046924341' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1614876556046924341' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry></feed>