<?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.post3560735177802879774..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/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/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>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8567359405678129517</id><published>2007-08-06T21:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-06T21:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Where all the women are strong, all the men are h...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Where all the women are strong, all the men are handsome, and all the children are above-average.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, he says all the men are &quot;good-looking&quot;, not &quot;handsome&quot;.  &quot;Handsome&quot; would defeat the purpose of the joke.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8567359405678129517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8567359405678129517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186450920000#c8567359405678129517' 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='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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6349723324841204057</id><published>2007-08-05T01:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-05T01:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I think you&#39;re right that perceptions have...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I think you&#39;re right that perceptions have changed more than conditions, but that perceptions have changed to the degree that an artist like Capra (or Rockwell, or even Thomas Hart Benton) could not present such visions post-1970.  I don&#39;t really understand *why* that is, but I think it&#39;s true.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/6349723324841204057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/6349723324841204057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186290540000#c6349723324841204057' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5760512886304848583</id><published>2007-08-04T14:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T14:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh sorry Brent I just saw your question: yes, situ...</title><summary type='text'>Oh sorry Brent I just saw your question: yes, situation is &quot;situation&quot; in Jacob&#39;s French (and the Debord manifesto for instance is &quot;Rapport sur la construction de situations&quot;). &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As to whether the SI knew of Jacob before: that would take some digging...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/5760512886304848583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/5760512886304848583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186252200000#c5760512886304848583' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591050484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4938991862454028805</id><published>2007-08-04T13:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T13:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think a big historical shift occurred with respe...</title><summary type='text'>I think a big historical shift occurred with respect to the American Zeitgeist between, say, 1940, and 1975 (post Vietnam).  A director like Capra could construct these weird (Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, etc.) fantasy daydreams of a fake America in which the nostalgia and sentiment of the lower middle class are exploited to the hilt, and people bought it.  That innocence was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4938991862454028805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4938991862454028805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186246980000#c4938991862454028805' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8944230284868300063</id><published>2007-08-04T00:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-04T00:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis wrote:It&#39;s the same world Garrison Keillor ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;It&#39;s the same world Garrison Keillor presents in his Lake Wobegone stories. &quot;Where all the women are strong, all the men are handsome, and all the children are above-average.&quot; It&#39;s cute, comfy and trite.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Naw.  That&#39;s the way life truly is in Minnesota.  Just like Garrison says.  Or at least it was until the bridges started falling down.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;pac, lov and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8944230284868300063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8944230284868300063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186201500000#c8944230284868300063' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8105713233299624476</id><published>2007-08-02T15:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T15:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah (sheepish), I gotta admit, there is that unde...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah (sheepish), I gotta admit, there is that undercurrent of nostalgia in a lot of Rockwell, but quite a lot of his stuff is contemporary, if often small town -- which (must admit again), denotes nostalgia in itself for many people.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Where I disagree is on the assessment of &quot;reality.&quot;  Winesburg, Ohio packs a wallop, but the sweet and the bittersweet depicted by Rockwell is real too; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8105713233299624476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8105713233299624476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186084680000#c8105713233299624476' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2246146960150614225</id><published>2007-08-02T14:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T14:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi, Ian,Thanks very much...I reread that Dice Cup ...</title><summary type='text'>Hi, Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks very much...I reread that Dice Cup preface last night and I certainly see what you mean about the parnassian qualities of Jacob&#39;s notion of situation.  In the Atlas press edition there&#39;s even a footnote to that effect: &quot;...in 1934 Jacob acknowledges that he had used a word in this preface that had been misunderstood: &#39;situer&#39;.  He claims he meant that &#39;a work of art must </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2246146960150614225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2246146960150614225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186080540000#c2246146960150614225' title=''/><author><name>Brent Cunningham</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15120606584372602345</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.spdbooks.org/photo2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1935263046"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3415013273047729476</id><published>2007-08-02T10:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T10:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I wasn&#39;t trying to build an edifice on art--simply...</title><summary type='text'>I wasn&#39;t trying to build an edifice on art--simply trying to make a case about Rockwell descending from Parrish and other illustrators.  Rockwell is one kind of technical master--but such craftsmen come and go in every generation--his &quot;contribution&quot; differed according to his fake-&quot;realistic&quot; subject-matter, one of the great conservative myth-makers.&lt;BR/&gt;Really a kind of apologist for the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3415013273047729476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3415013273047729476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186064160000#c3415013273047729476' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4016094135731548639</id><published>2007-08-02T01:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-02T01:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,Thanks for the comments.  I take issue with...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for the comments.  I take issue with a bunch of it, natch.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here is issue.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Illustration is inherently programmatic and narrational, whereas high art aspires to a classic stasis which suspends time and shrugs off the ephemeral. In Rockwell, this is reversed.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree about illustration and Rockwell, but you overstate the case against high art --</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4016094135731548639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4016094135731548639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186031340000#c4016094135731548639' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3622542421935860973</id><published>2007-08-01T21:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T21:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,My argument was against the imposed conflic...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My argument was against the imposed conflict between Dr Williams or Mallarmé, not on behalf of one or the other.  I’m trying to get at the question as to why people feel the need to pick sides and to reduce one of them in phrases like “the essence of what&#39;s wrong with French academicism” when both were essential Modernist innovators.  You’re only playing Bly’s little game when </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3622542421935860973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3622542421935860973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186017420000#c3622542421935860973' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4437445340186172976</id><published>2007-08-01T21:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T21:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>John:&quot;Rockwell&#39;s juvenile imagery does not strike ...</title><summary type='text'>John:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Rockwell&#39;s juvenile imagery does not strike me as perverse. I don&#39;t see the connection with Parrish. Rockwell&#39;s biggest influence is Rembrandt: both paint, brilliantly, the drama of revelation and relationship: Jesus breaking the bread; the little girl showing off her missing tooth; the angel visiting the evangelist Matthew; the boy praying with his grandma in the diner. R &amp; R </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4437445340186172976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4437445340186172976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186016940000#c4437445340186172976' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2940863100468202612</id><published>2007-08-01T19:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T19:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Perhaps Curtis, but isn&#39;t it one thing to posit th...</title><summary type='text'>Perhaps Curtis, but isn&#39;t it one thing to posit the existence of these inter-linguistic variances/vagaries, while it&#39;s quite another to construct literary-historiographical assertions based on them?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;d bet, at least since the death of Valery in &#39;45, that there have been more French poets in rather strident opposition to Mallarmean poetics than the contrary.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for translation, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2940863100468202612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2940863100468202612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186012620000#c2940863100468202612' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591050484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2560660063488959008</id><published>2007-08-01T19:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T19:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian,Quite a lot of ideas in your comments that I&#39;v...</title><summary type='text'>Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Quite a lot of ideas in your comments that I&#39;ve never actually heard expressed before, especially in regards to Jacob, &amp; incompatibilities w language poetry.  Can you say more?  For me these were a few questions that came to mind:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) I take it you&#39;d be in the camp that sees Jacob&#39;s theatrical conversion as, a., sincere and, b., consistent with his earlier aesthetics and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2560660063488959008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2560660063488959008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186010520000#c2560660063488959008' title=''/><author><name>Brent Cunningham</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15120606584372602345</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.spdbooks.org/photo2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1935263046"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4252873258239041199</id><published>2007-08-01T18:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T18:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>We stayed at Jeu de Paume on Ile Saint-Louis, and ...</title><summary type='text'>We stayed at Jeu de Paume on Ile Saint-Louis, and it was a wonderful place.  Albeit if one didn&#39;t need to drive a car--definitely a liability on a par with Madrid, Rome, London, etc.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of those you mention, Ponge is the only one I have read much of.  I translated Reverdy at Iowa in the early 1970&#39;s, and found his syllables to be monotonous.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I freely confess to a sensitivity </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4252873258239041199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4252873258239041199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1186006560000#c4252873258239041199' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7975157249371500248</id><published>2007-08-01T15:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T15:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, as an anglophone currently working in the ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, as an anglophone currently working in the French academy (I teach 20th century poetics at the University of Strasbourg II), these statements for me reek of a number of rather glaringly prejudicial topoi regarding French poetics.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder, have you worked in, or been to France, recently? “[French] seems to tend towards an aural monotony, which I used to think was deliberate, but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/7975157249371500248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/7975157249371500248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185997440000#c7975157249371500248' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591050484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2531202670422043796</id><published>2007-08-01T11:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T11:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also probably worth noting that Ashbery is one of ...</title><summary type='text'>Also probably worth noting that Ashbery is one of the translators of the work in Bill Zavatsky&#39;s Sun Press&#39;s edition of The Dice Cup.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2531202670422043796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2531202670422043796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185980460000#c2531202670422043796' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2465321739173611065</id><published>2007-08-01T10:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T10:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Perse and Mallarme.  They both strike me as the es...</title><summary type='text'>Perse and Mallarme.  They both strike me as the essence of what&#39;s wrong with French academicism.  Claudel and Valery.  Reverdy and Guillevic.  A tendency to put their feet into concrete and sink them in the harbor.  It&#39;s almost impossible to remain &quot;obscure&quot; in France, yet obscurity is the greatest opportunity in art since it protects you against canonization and stasis.  Or, as the French say, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2465321739173611065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2465321739173611065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185978360000#c2465321739173611065' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3574167269998578243</id><published>2007-07-31T22:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T22:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was taken aback when I read a while back your pr...</title><summary type='text'>I was taken aback when I read a while back your preference for Perse over Jacob, and this essay helps me understand your position as well as the importance of Perse to your poetry in the early 70s.&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;Jacob was a purely synthetic rather than analytical Cubist; he had no interest in representation of the world and only wished to utilize it for a collage and transformative effects that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3574167269998578243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3574167269998578243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185934140000#c3574167269998578243' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2067504811598538202</id><published>2007-07-31T20:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T20:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>yes, even lowell &quot;imitated&quot; baudelaire (though not...</title><summary type='text'>yes, even lowell &quot;imitated&quot; baudelaire (though not the prose poems that i am aware of) and rimbaud was a fixture of the new directions line, with their powerful arty covers.  for me prosepoetry was a strong part of fifties avant culture: consider henry miller and jack kerouac, ecstatic swinging passages bearing the central intentions of their work, and even patchens journal of albion moonlight </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2067504811598538202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2067504811598538202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185926940000#c2067504811598538202' title=''/><author><name>Tinker Greene</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16667761674945417190</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-204239496"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9207577011019943504</id><published>2007-07-31T19:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T19:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ad paragon&#39;s bothering jouledrone near kasimir, fo...</title><summary type='text'>ad paragon&#39;s bothering joule&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;drone near kasimir, forking light wills substance threading knee pale keening kankerbossie, the hula fading lobes to jiva kiva viva must&lt;BR/&gt;angstrom finely a warp tooled churruck voce. bis muth, ah, a mail free of wiping clean tiles in the simmering of glabrous chattering mirrors, &lt;BR/&gt;a dose flange or a doubt in elastic butterfly rules must charge the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/9207577011019943504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/9207577011019943504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185926280000#c9207577011019943504' 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='26' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/blog/poophanarrow.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4462933734571725889</id><published>2007-07-31T19:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T19:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jordan,&quot;I write stanzas on exile and the impermane...</title><summary type='text'>Jordan,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I write stanzas on exile and the impermanence of human things, but I allow no one to ignore that I am undersecretary to the Emperor&quot; -- sounds like what Ezra Pound wished for.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rockwell&#39;s juvenile imagery does not strike me as perverse.  I don&#39;t see the connection with Parrish.  Rockwell&#39;s biggest influence is Rembrandt:  both paint, brilliantly, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4462933734571725889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/4462933734571725889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185925500000#c4462933734571725889' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8117799809822299098</id><published>2007-07-31T19:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T19:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, basically just what I said (French models). ...</title><summary type='text'>Well, basically just what I said (French models).  I&#39;ve never read Michaux, but love Baudelaire, Verlaine, Corbiere, Rimbaud, Soupault, and a host of others.  Cribs of Baudelaire&#39;s poems read like wonderful prose poems.  Ron argued that Double Dream (which contained Fragment) showed a clear &quot;consolidation&quot; which is a nice way of saying &quot;retreat&quot; from experimentation of form.  Actually, I don&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8117799809822299098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/8117799809822299098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185925020000#c8117799809822299098' 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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2391168331838680797</id><published>2007-07-31T15:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T15:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And then there&#39;s the really obvious.  So obvious, ...</title><summary type='text'>And then there&#39;s the really obvious.  So obvious, I somehow forget them: Baudelaire and Rimbaud.  Their prose poems were widely available, and I believe widely known, from the 1940s on. And the bright ones --  Harry Crosby being just one example -- knew that work, and wrote accordingly, in the 1920s. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rimbaud in particular showed that the prosepoem could be -- should be -- anything.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2391168331838680797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/2391168331838680797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185911400000#c2391168331838680797' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3684051278685953385</id><published>2007-07-31T15:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T15:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3684051278685953385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/3684051278685953385'/><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='26' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/blog/poophanarrow.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5773033909187085994</id><published>2007-07-31T14:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T14:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And for others writing prose poems -- in English -...</title><summary type='text'>And for others writing prose poems -- in English -- early on, see the little anthology of prose poems that Charles Henri Ford edited and which was included in the 1953 &lt;I&gt;New Directions Annual 14&lt;/I&gt;. Lamantia had some good ones there.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/5773033909187085994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3560735177802879774/comments/default/5773033909187085994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html?showComment=1185907980000#c5773033909187085994' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2007/07/think-about-john-ashberys-three-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3560735177802879774' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3560735177802879774' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2007"/></entry></feed>