<?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.post1865887766637015264..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/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.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>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4612137568708487490</id><published>2007-06-14T10:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-14T10:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bloggers who insist on having the last word by del...</title><summary type='text'>Bloggers who insist on having the last word by deleting their opponants&#39; posts are like children who won&#39;t play fairly and take their marbles home with them.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Shepherd would doubtless characterize my last post as &quot;further evidence&quot; of the evil he&#39;s attacking.  His claim that a lack of knowledge of his work and previous agenda are pre-requisites for the right to speak and argue with his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/4612137568708487490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/4612137568708487490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181832300000#c4612137568708487490' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5133361712699445938</id><published>2007-06-13T12:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-13T12:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I’d be interested to read what you had to say.  I ...</title><summary type='text'>I’d be interested to read what you had to say.  I think it’s fair to conclude that ‘discourse’ requires tolerance of dissent.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/5133361712699445938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/5133361712699445938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181751600000#c5133361712699445938' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4711613983658615724</id><published>2007-06-12T22:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-12T22:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:  I made a long, critical post on Shepherd&#39;s b...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:  I made a long, critical post on Shepherd&#39;s blogsite this morning, which he promptly removed.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Methinks Mr. Shepherd cannot take criticism.  He can dole it out, but he can&#39;t take it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is chickenshit behavior, when you edit out the contrary posts and keep only those which are favorable.  Mr. Shepherd is a testy bore.  His ponderous, infelicitous style is drudgery to read.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/4711613983658615724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/4711613983658615724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181701680000#c4711613983658615724' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5024722930030227093</id><published>2007-06-07T16:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-07T16:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, that Stalin is pretty bland.</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, that Stalin is pretty bland.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/5024722930030227093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/5024722930030227093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181249100000#c5024722930030227093' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7412429307080965340</id><published>2007-06-07T15:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-07T15:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reginald, I knew if I made any statements on my ow...</title><summary type='text'>Reginald, I knew if I made any statements on my own about your accusations about Ron Silliman or others, you would summon your capacities for sanctimonious and legalistic prose to make all sorts of accusations about me and appeals to points of order.  That’s why I only repeated what YOU said and said NOTHING of my own, other than to simply report above that you deleted the comment.  Despite the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/7412429307080965340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/7412429307080965340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181243460000#c7412429307080965340' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7955249291437734108</id><published>2007-06-07T09:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-07T09:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian Keenan distorts the context within which I del...</title><summary type='text'>Ian Keenan distorts the context within which I deleted his comment. As I made clear in a note on my post on the vitriol so prominent in online discourse, I revised the post so as to remove references to specific individuals, as those references clearly had distracted the conversation from the main point I was trying to make. I also deleted all comments related to those references, including my </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/7955249291437734108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/7955249291437734108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181222640000#c7955249291437734108' title=''/><author><name>Reginald Shepherd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963</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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915927096"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1924390931223615482</id><published>2007-06-06T22:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T22:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why is Hughes the most pompous of translators?  It...</title><summary type='text'>Why is Hughes the &lt;B&gt;most&lt;/B&gt; pompous of translators?  It seems to me the competition is pretty crowded.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mr. Shepherd, don&#39;t get the vapors.    Got to take an elbow in the blogosphere.  Ron&#39;s clearly in a testy, mildly hyperbolic mood today.  &lt;I&gt;Most pompous translator, poet least like Whitman,&lt;/I&gt; etc.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/1924390931223615482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/1924390931223615482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181184120000#c1924390931223615482' title=''/><author><name>Hermagoras</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15863777697055352607</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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-616769328"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6907321526271823415</id><published>2007-06-06T20:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T20:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s one of Stalin&#39;s poems.  Zero sense of humor...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s one of Stalin&#39;s poems.  Zero sense of humor.  Personally I prefer Billy Collins.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To the Moon by Soselo (Josef Stalin)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Saturday May 19, 2007&lt;BR/&gt;The Guardian &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Move tirelessly &lt;BR/&gt;Do not hang your head &lt;BR/&gt;Scatter the mist of the clouds &lt;BR/&gt;The Lord&#39;s Providence is great. &lt;BR/&gt;Gently smile at the earth &lt;BR/&gt;Stretched out beneath you; &lt;BR/&gt;Sing a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/6907321526271823415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/6907321526271823415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181174580000#c6907321526271823415' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6560024948735064831</id><published>2007-06-06T18:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T18:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>About Ron&#39;s labeling of Henri Cole as a School of ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;About Ron&#39;s labeling of Henri Cole as a School of Quietude Poet (which is Ron&#39;s way of denigrating another poet) and his linking of Cole to conservative principles by conflating him with the reviewer of Cole&#39;s book:&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder if Ron has actually taken the time to read all of Cole&#39;s work (his output is relatively small so it won&#39;t take that much time). He can hardly be called </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/6560024948735064831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/6560024948735064831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181167980000#c6560024948735064831' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan David Jackson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10608993872673053839</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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1201164035"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5859012517640267372</id><published>2007-06-06T18:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T18:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reginald, Ron’s statement:“An assistant editorfor ...</title><summary type='text'>Reginald, Ron’s statement:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“An assistant editor&lt;BR/&gt;for The American Conservative&lt;BR/&gt;reviews&lt;BR/&gt;a School of Quietude Poet&lt;BR/&gt;for Rev. Moon’s&lt;BR/&gt;Washington Times”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is an accurate one, and any objective reader would not allege that Ron was implying Cole was responsible for this review.  It’s obvious that conservative newspapers aren’t going to promote poets that raise awareness</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/5859012517640267372'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/5859012517640267372'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181167560000#c5859012517640267372' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6203472926091562772</id><published>2007-06-06T15:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T15:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Regie:  I think even Merwin himself would be embar...</title><summary type='text'>Regie:  I think even Merwin himself would be embarrassed by the Whitman tag.  Merwin&#39;s models were originally the Fugitives (in the 1950&#39;s), and then he moved on to the post-Modern French (a la Follain etc.).  After he &quot;found&quot; his voice (beginning with The Moving Target), his work has been consistently thin and slack.  It&#39;s all very odd, since he (along with Blackburn) had originally taken </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/6203472926091562772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/6203472926091562772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181157840000#c6203472926091562772' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-361768647291860108</id><published>2007-06-06T14:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T14:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reginald,How about, &quot;one of many poets for whom a ...</title><summary type='text'>Reginald,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How about, &quot;one of many poets for whom a comparison to Whitman is extraordinarily inappropriate?&quot; Or something less syntactically jumbled? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Even if you like Merwin&#39;s poetry (or have liked it--&quot;The Lice&quot; was pretty mind-blowing for me fifteen years ago), I think this review can still qualify as &quot;BS from abroad. It&#39;s assertions seem blatantly absurd to me. What&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/361768647291860108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/361768647291860108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181153940000#c361768647291860108' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1100816378237300700</id><published>2007-06-06T13:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T13:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Merwin is the unmistakable heir of the Emerson an...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Merwin is the unmistakable heir of the Emerson and Whitman who so ecstatically hymned flux...and like them he possesses a rare gift for pristine sensation...As much American Noah as American Adam, post-modern Merwin is aware of launching a porous ark of language. Behind even his most serene raptures lies always the quiet imagination of apocalypse...a plangent master of that lexicon...a Romantic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/1100816378237300700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/1100816378237300700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181151780000#c1100816378237300700' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1690855376709684444</id><published>2007-06-06T11:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T11:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I wonder if Clive Wilmer, the author of the piece ...</title><summary type='text'>I wonder if Clive Wilmer, the author of the piece on Ted Hughes&#39;s translations, is aware of Bunting&#39;s work, or Zuk&#39;s translation of Catullus.  Or CE&#39;s Vallejo.  Or Blythe&#39;s Chinese translations.  Or Wilbur&#39;s Moliere and Racine.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is the first I&#39;ve heard of Orghast, which sounds like so much gibberish.  Has anyone heard it?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/1690855376709684444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/1690855376709684444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181143140000#c1690855376709684444' 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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4790721885411484909</id><published>2007-06-06T07:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T07:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Whatever one thinks of his poetry, I don&#39;t know ho...</title><summary type='text'>Whatever one thinks of his poetry, I don&#39;t know how Henri Cole can be blamed or held responsible for who reviews his work. Once again, why not talk about the actual poetry--or, if one dislikes it, just not talk about it at all?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Imputing guilt by association is a tried and true tactic in smear campaigns.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is W.S. Merwin, who in The Lice wrote some truly amazing poems, really &quot;the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/4790721885411484909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1865887766637015264/comments/default/4790721885411484909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html?showComment=1181130900000#c4790721885411484909' title=''/><author><name>Reginald Shepherd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963</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/2007/06/stalin-greets-muse-ken-rumble-is-latest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1865887766637015264' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1865887766637015264' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1915927096"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2007"/></entry></feed>