<?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.post4396255831119050566..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/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.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>16</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-195256992557503985</id><published>2007-05-29T16:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-29T16:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Eshleman brings a scholarly perfectionism to his w...</title><summary type='text'>Eshleman brings a scholarly perfectionism to his work as a translator and tends to have extreme contempt for what he sees as a relative lack of rigor of earlier translations in print, including earlier translations of Rimbaud here and City Lights’ Artaud versions.  As a reader I like all honest, inspired translations and would love to see Berrigan’s in print, having enjoyed the small sampling of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/195256992557503985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/195256992557503985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180470360000#c195256992557503985' 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/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4776416392553810426</id><published>2007-05-28T23:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T23:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Touche and all in fun.  I published poems in magaz...</title><summary type='text'>Touche and all in fun.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I published poems in magazines in the 1970&#39;s.  Attended Berkeley, then Iowa, then Berkeley again.  Degrees in English, English again, plus MFA in Poetry, then MA in Landscape Architecture.  Fagin published a pamphlet, then I self-published a big collection in the mid-1970&#39;s.  Hejinian did a pamphlet in the late 1970&#39;s.  Then I went underground slaving away in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/4776416392553810426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/4776416392553810426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180410000000#c4776416392553810426' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8582304139465979079</id><published>2007-05-28T19:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T19:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hello Curtis,No, you shouldn&#39;t know my work from A...</title><summary type='text'>hello Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No, you shouldn&#39;t know my work from Adam. I have not yet published, just trying to get my feet wet, make a little mark, though fat chance. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But just to be sure, since you make the reference, there, at the end of your last remark, I have never published in these comments boxes under an alias, nor have I ever published under an &quot;alias&quot;in my life. Aliases are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8582304139465979079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8582304139465979079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180393500000#c8582304139465979079' 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/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9010712116342741686</id><published>2007-05-28T14:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T14:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Some rashness in the opening of my comment above, ...</title><summary type='text'>Some rashness in the opening of my comment above, which was unnecessary. Apologies for that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/9010712116342741686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/9010712116342741686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180376160000#c9010712116342741686' 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/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5681914755742166835</id><published>2007-05-28T12:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-28T12:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent:  I&#39;m not trying to impress anyone.  Ron rais...</title><summary type='text'>Kent:  I&#39;m not trying to impress anyone.  Ron raises so many issues that interest me that I can hardly help contributing.  I gave up trying to anticipate who, or what kinds of readers, were reading the comments--I&#39;m frequently surprised by the responses people give.  Kent, I don&#39;t know you from Adam, either you or your work.  Should I?  I have no idea.  Would that make me more sympathetic towards</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5681914755742166835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5681914755742166835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180369800000#c5681914755742166835' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2661068549786020425</id><published>2007-05-27T20:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-27T20:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis F.,For the most part, scanning some of your...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis F.,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For the most part, scanning some of your never-ending comments from past months, you come across as a blowhard, trying with great earnestness to impress, but here I do agree: Eshleman is a great translator of Vallejo, there is no question. But his criticism of Berrigan above is quite embarrassing, and shows that CE has a very narrow view of what &quot;translation&quot; should, or can, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/2661068549786020425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/2661068549786020425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180313220000#c2661068549786020425' 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/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3932743427571427571</id><published>2007-05-26T22:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T22:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve often thought that Classics Illustrated shoul...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve often thought that Classics Illustrated should have done a comic book version of Le Bateau Ivre. No doubt, with some clip-art support, the Berrigan version would have served. Hah! faisons toutes les grimaces imaginables etc.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/3932743427571427571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/3932743427571427571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180233360000#c3932743427571427571' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3002004161017812013</id><published>2007-05-26T11:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T11:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Berrigan&#39;s ghost is probably laughing deli...</title><summary type='text'>I think Berrigan&#39;s ghost is probably laughing delightedly somewhere about this.  To the degree that I understand his character, verisimlitude and accuracy were not his interests.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What do we make, then, of Pound&#39;s translation mistakes?  Is creative mistranslation excusable if it results in work with integrity, and the &quot;spirit&quot; of the original?  Hmm.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Berrigan&#39;s &quot;version&quot; above</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/3002004161017812013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/3002004161017812013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180193820000#c3002004161017812013' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5374700242610814045</id><published>2007-05-26T00:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-26T00:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Clayton Eshleman asks me to post the following:dea...</title><summary type='text'>Clayton Eshleman asks me to post the following:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;dear Ron:  thank you. Here is my response:&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;The Berrigan translation of Rimbaud&#39;s &quot;Le Bateau ivre,&quot; is utterly mediocre. It is is so full of translation errors--not misinterpretations, but outright errors, omissions, and superfluous additions--that should be discernable to anyone with even a little French comparing it to the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5374700242610814045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5374700242610814045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180152120000#c5374700242610814045' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5458600811410760083</id><published>2007-05-25T19:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T19:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>what about the basho translations?</title><summary type='text'>what about the basho translations?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5458600811410760083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5458600811410760083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180136280000#c5458600811410760083' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Lovelace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05102096990378842027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/jimmyjesus/HKETC067.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-925484810"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6440126861210094865</id><published>2007-05-25T16:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T16:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So much of the literature from languages other tha...</title><summary type='text'>So much of the literature from languages other than English has been done by uninspired writers.  Too numerous to mention.  That&#39;s not to say I haven&#39;t gotten a lot out of bad Neruda translations, or bad Pasternak translations, or bad Li Po translations.  But the best stuff is rare.  Wilbur did Moliere, I think, about as well as we might expect.  I actually think Merwin&#39;s a translator </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/6440126861210094865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/6440126861210094865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180124460000#c6440126861210094865' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8279326769776848649</id><published>2007-05-25T16:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T16:13:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8279326769776848649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8279326769776848649'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/imago/2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5473628449558399965</id><published>2007-05-25T13:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T13:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis I agree with: ‘I have trouble putting Berri...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis I agree with: ‘I have trouble putting Berrigan, and what I know of his proclivities and methods, into this equation.’  I don’t know about the rest of it.  Without going through the formality of saying which living translators have ‘great poetic aptitiude’ whatever that means, the act of translating by master poets tends to be a matter of curiosity, wanting to make essential works readable </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5473628449558399965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/5473628449558399965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180115940000#c5473628449558399965' 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/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8150468918805806514</id><published>2007-05-25T13:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T13:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jordan:  I remember people saying in the early 197...</title><summary type='text'>Jordan:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I remember people saying in the early 1970&#39;s that the only book of Ted&#39;s that could compete straight-up for literary quality--that is, not just as a piece of carnival fluff from the Noo York Skool--was The Sonnets.  I still think that&#39;s right.  And Ted believed it too.  He once said &quot;I just wish I could come up with another idea as ingenious as that one was!&quot;  Many Happy </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8150468918805806514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8150468918805806514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180113720000#c8150468918805806514' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4482929915333892831</id><published>2007-05-25T10:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T10:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Translation requires a certain turn of mind.  Pati...</title><summary type='text'>Translation requires a certain turn of mind.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Patience, accuracy, fidelity, wit, imagination.  It also helps to possess a facility for languages.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As much as I love Ted Berrigan&#39;s work, I find it difficult to see him as a serious translator.  I sometimes tend towards the belief that for some minds, an inability to translate may indicate a superior poetic ability.  For instance</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/4482929915333892831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/4482929915333892831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180102440000#c4482929915333892831' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8649232780513831230</id><published>2007-05-25T09:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T09:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Top Ten Published Works of Ted Berrigan1. Tambouri...</title><summary type='text'>Top Ten Published Works of Ted Berrigan&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. Tambourine Life&lt;BR/&gt;2. Easter Monday&lt;BR/&gt;3. The Sonnets&lt;BR/&gt;4. Last Poems&lt;BR/&gt;5. Many Happy Returns&lt;BR/&gt;6. C Magazine&lt;BR/&gt;7. Bean Spasms&lt;BR/&gt;8. Train Ride&lt;BR/&gt;9. The rest of the Collected Poems</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8649232780513831230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4396255831119050566/comments/default/8649232780513831230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html?showComment=1180100880000#c8649232780513831230' 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/2007/05/in-my-note-on-paul-austers-poetry-other.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4396255831119050566' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4396255831119050566' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2007"/></entry></feed>