<?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.post1836672262100231993..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/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6576966747938139386</id><published>2009-05-20T19:12:20.403-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T19:12:20.403-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I love Bruce Andrews! Why are so many people so do...</title><summary type='text'>I love Bruce Andrews! Why are so many people so down on the guy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also see little similarity between him and Davies. But love &#39;em both. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/6576966747938139386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/6576966747938139386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242861140403#c6576966747938139386' 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='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4934123541144337693</id><published>2009-05-20T09:31:47.912-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T09:31:47.912-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Bruce Andrews&#39;s bad attittude has been gro...</title><summary type='text'>I think Bruce Andrews&#39;s bad attittude has been grossly over-exaggerated, by well-meaning fans and haters alike. I find works like Memento Mori and Shut Up to be chock-filled with good humor and cheer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comparing Kevin with Bruce on the topic of humor, I find Kevin routinely has to bust his ass simply to achieve the scale of effects the Bruce lays down casually, almost thoughtlessly.&lt;br</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/4934123541144337693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/4934123541144337693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242826307912#c4934123541144337693' title=''/><author><name>Buck</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04503657076745189153</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/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-293043333"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8566609089081154492</id><published>2009-05-20T00:12:49.615-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T00:12:49.615-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think there’s a typo here. By &quot;Bruce Andrews&quot; yo...</title><summary type='text'>I think there’s a typo here. By &quot;Bruce Andrews&quot; you meant &quot;Stephen Rodefer&quot; right?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/8566609089081154492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/8566609089081154492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242792769615#c8566609089081154492' title=''/><author><name>NEG</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06256297219916308405</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://fotola.com/fotola/2006/Dec/humanverb4588990bb0017-web.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-571195259"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-540997700295183268</id><published>2009-05-19T22:15:38.863-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T22:15:38.863-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Despite Jordan and Drew&#39;s astute close readings of...</title><summary type='text'>Despite Jordan and Drew&#39;s astute close readings of K&#39;s poems, I don&#39;t find their analysis of its larger urge or whatever to be right - ie, I don&#39;t find K&#39;s work to be flarfy, unless that&#39;s a category I don&#39;t understand.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter&#39;s right.  It&#39;s the other way around.  Kevin came first.  (He doesn&#39;t, usually, though.)  I can&#39;t believe I have to say something like this, but I was in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/540997700295183268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/540997700295183268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242785738863#c540997700295183268' title=''/><author><name>ton catsuit</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06178971607488115567</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/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1632552148"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5208266979298294782</id><published>2009-05-19T14:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T14:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>While agreeing with your overall evaluation--it&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>While agreeing with your overall evaluation--it&#39;s gotta be one of the best books of poetry of the last handful of years--I&#39;d take the opposite tack on some of the details. Same with Jordan Davis&#39; generally intelligent review. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;I&gt;Golden Age&lt;/I&gt;, I think, could easily have been written without flarf. It has, in fact, a great deal of what I haven&#39;t found in any of the flarf work I&#39;ve </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/5208266979298294782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/5208266979298294782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242758760000#c5208266979298294782' 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='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7150199939412885099</id><published>2009-05-19T12:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T12:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Not that &quot;experimental&quot; is, where we are, an unpro...</title><summary type='text'>Not that &quot;experimental&quot; is, where we are, an unproblematic word...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/7150199939412885099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/7150199939412885099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242751680000#c7150199939412885099' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</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/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3007164249096075999</id><published>2009-05-19T12:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T12:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, ut pictura poesis, I say! &#xa;&#xa;I&#39;ve been readin...</title><summary type='text'>Well, ut pictura poesis, I say! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;ve been reading all over the place that Davies&#39;s work represents the most surgical, tough, analytical &quot;political&quot; poetry in all the &quot;post-avant&quot; scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But after reading this post about his refined painterly skills (his primary colors, his pastels, his palette! [twice]), I&#39;m wanting to think of him as some kind of Flarf-Langpo inflected </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/3007164249096075999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/3007164249096075999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242750720000#c3007164249096075999' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</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/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-94208679424795402</id><published>2009-05-19T11:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T11:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curious - tho I am not sold on the validity of for...</title><summary type='text'>Curious - tho I am not sold on the validity of forms or schools, the tension between them produces some interesting reading, for sure.  Hybrid-isms are most brilliant when they perplex the dogma of many of these poetic schools and will be the way to combat the fractional nature of all these silly schools.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/94208679424795402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/94208679424795402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242745800000#c94208679424795402' title=''/><author><name>Nedd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13454164884801598554</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/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-250518989"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7742658861994627848</id><published>2009-05-19T10:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T10:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>While a case can certainly be made for the influen...</title><summary type='text'>While a case can certainly be made for the influences of Andrews &amp;amp; the New York School (as well as Barry McKinnon, David McFadden and a host of Canadian poets) the connection between Davies &amp;amp; Flarf can not be borne out by any textual evidence, as the book was written before either term or movement existed. These continuing ahistorical attempts to tie Davies to Flarf seem to be more about </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/7742658861994627848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/7742658861994627848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242743340000#c7742658861994627848' title=''/><author><name>Peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12003245243758973391</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://www.moominvoices.com/pictures/muumi_lehdisto.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-653182069"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8314381712412094536</id><published>2009-05-19T09:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T09:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i totally thought that was kiefer sutherland</title><summary type='text'>i totally thought that was kiefer sutherland</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/8314381712412094536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/8314381712412094536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242740400000#c8314381712412094536' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SXXMvQ7yRrI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iHgQG5bXM88/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5044397439717313164</id><published>2009-05-19T07:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T07:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If you say so.</title><summary type='text'>If you say so.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/5044397439717313164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1836672262100231993/comments/default/5044397439717313164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html?showComment=1242734340000#c5044397439717313164' title=''/><author><name>Meg</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='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/SeB3B8MTI5I/AAAAAAAAAm4/rWoHodRohJA/S220/arco+iris.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-ben-friedlander-nothing.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1836672262100231993' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1836672262100231993' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2009"/></entry></feed>