<?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.post2325920161449549794..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/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8101643890670073788</id><published>2008-10-10T21:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T21:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron - I was privileged to be among the comparative...</title><summary type='text'>Ron - &lt;BR/&gt;I was privileged to be among the comparative handful in attendance at the Grand Piano performance last weekend.  Stepping outside the purely pedantic for a moment, it was a great show.  Exceptional work by all contributors and some genuinely thrilling moments, as when the overlapping of two voices admitted, briefly, a third, a fourth, and ultimately all seven in what might&amp;#39;ve, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/8101643890670073788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/8101643890670073788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223687940000#c8101643890670073788' title=''/><author><name>Rick Wiggins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00523692547207125395</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/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-589923559"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3996270251876391215</id><published>2008-10-05T18:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T18:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ge-ant Narr-sys-eye,What hath thou schein to sday?...</title><summary type='text'>Ge-ant Narr-sys-eye,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What hath thou schein to sday?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Verily, the loing loins the low&lt;BR/&gt;and wol is weary with wool&lt;BR/&gt;and longing [after]..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A sword of light&lt;BR/&gt;performs a whole &lt;BR/&gt;in reason&#39;s &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;nose ear&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;O Lend me your&lt;BR/&gt;faintest sketches&lt;BR/&gt;of Madronna&lt;BR/&gt;and bably Shagspare&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;do you see a baby&lt;BR/&gt;in a hood of donkey ears?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3996270251876391215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3996270251876391215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223244600000#c3996270251876391215' 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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3195880822935459241</id><published>2008-10-05T13:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T13:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I encountered Barry later than you did, early...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I encountered Barry later than you did, early &#39;70s, and appreciated his insight and theories about the poetry of those days. I appreciate and admire some of his work. And I think your analysis and defence of his approach to poetry, and poetry theory, is valid. But why denigrate other approaches in comparison to yours and Watten&#39;s? Do you really think it&#39;s only the so-called &quot;Language&quot; or &quot;L=</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3195880822935459241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3195880822935459241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223226960000#c3195880822935459241' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</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/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8759952530397378938</id><published>2008-10-05T09:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T09:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent:Not sure I understand what you&#39;re saying (and...</title><summary type='text'>Kent:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not sure I understand what you&#39;re saying (and I wish I did!).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Grand Piano presents many more questions than it has answered.  I also question its whole program.  Maybe someone could tell me what its primary purpose is--?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If, for instance, one were to accept my premise about Coolidge, what might that say about the (re-)writing of history which GP implies.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/8759952530397378938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/8759952530397378938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223215140000#c8759952530397378938' 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/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2287930160297275963</id><published>2008-10-04T20:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T20:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And just to say, lest the last part of my comment ...</title><summary type='text'>And just to say, lest the last part of my comment give the wrong impression, I think Curtis Faville&#39;s prolific commentary here (I think of him a bit as Ron Silliman&#39;s Ed McMann) is very often quite brilliant!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/2287930160297275963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/2287930160297275963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223166240000#c2287930160297275963' 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/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3048406185147647532</id><published>2008-10-04T15:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T15:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Everything else would follow, from a bas...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Everything else would follow, from a baseline repudiation of traditional voiced address.&amp;quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Albeit, of course, with no &amp;quot;repudiation of traditional address&amp;quot; writ large. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of the baseline byline, that is, that the Canon so naturally solicits...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And thus, alas, the &amp;quot;Everything,&amp;quot; now: This long nocturne to Grand Authorship, on a Grand </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3048406185147647532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3048406185147647532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223147040000#c3048406185147647532' 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/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3330136464012462224</id><published>2008-10-04T12:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T12:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When Barry arrived at Iowa, his work was at a thre...</title><summary type='text'>When Barry arrived at Iowa, his work was at a threshold between being a series of conflicted imitations of then-current ikons (Berrigan, Olson, Creeley, Williams, Merwin, Ashbery, et al), and a rejection of all of these in favor of a new kind of writing, one which would insist upon integrity at all points, would take all valencies simultaneously into account (political, formal, occasional, social</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3330136464012462224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/3330136464012462224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223138100000#c3330136464012462224' 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/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8836939006596580737</id><published>2008-10-04T09:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T09:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fascinating insight into a poetico-historical mome...</title><summary type='text'>Fascinating insight into a poetico-historical moment: and underlining the fact that these moments are always personal, infused with both an intimate and larger historicity. Total Syntax is an important book, for me at least, and a complex one: I&#39;m still not sure I grasp its entire scope, but it&#39;s one to keep on returning to. Perhaps The Constructivist Moment further illuminates some elements. I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/8836939006596580737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2325920161449549794/comments/default/8836939006596580737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html?showComment=1223126880000#c8836939006596580737' title=''/><author><name>Nicholas Manning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12750291349639539140</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/100/297698415_31f5f13234.jpg?v=0'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/when-i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-1965.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2325920161449549794' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2325920161449549794' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591050484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 04, 2008"/></entry></feed>