<?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.post6592481815661918100..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/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/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>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7844243953021476036</id><published>2007-09-10T11:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T11:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>GP Skratz tried vainly to post this yesterday, so ...</title><summary type='text'>GP Skratz tried vainly to post this yesterday, so I&#39;m posting it for him:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hi Ron:&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;This thing got under my skin, &amp; even though the steam has largely gone out of the thread:  perhaps I might add a few comments to the melee:&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;In your response to the new Ed Dorn collection, Way More West, you call Dorn, “Easily the most contentious &amp; controversial of any of the New </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/7844243953021476036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/7844243953021476036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1189439520000#c7844243953021476036' 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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 10, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2604439180314972484</id><published>2007-08-01T10:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T10:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comrade Ron (!)  I had a copy of Gunslinger from a...</title><summary type='text'>Comrade Ron (!)  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I had a copy of Gunslinger from a local libary - I came here via Raworth&#39;s  Blog - I want to read &#39;Gunslinger&#39; - and this controversy here has caught my interest in Dorn ... I can see what you are saying. But I can also actually relate to the bullet poem: it is always rhetoric (of course bulletins are mostly better but the bullet has its place -sadly) - and we cant </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/2604439180314972484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/2604439180314972484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1185976860000#c2604439180314972484' title=''/><author><name>Richard Taylor</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1142244622"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4756156606838848358</id><published>2007-07-09T17:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-09T17:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The idea of Dorn being critiqued by an angry littl...</title><summary type='text'>The idea of Dorn being critiqued by an angry little twat such as you, Mr. Silliman, is just about par for the course.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dorn suffered fools not at all . . . so you no doubt kept your distance while he still had fangs.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4756156606838848358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4756156606838848358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1184015220000#c4756156606838848358' title=''/><author><name>bobdevo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14221823550868852359</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-117642171"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 09, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1480247566166776410</id><published>2007-03-24T13:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T13:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>He certainly wasn&#39;t a joiner.  But was he the &quot;Mel...</title><summary type='text'>He certainly wasn&#39;t a joiner.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But was he the &quot;Mel Gibson&quot; of the New Maerican Poetry? Even his bullets rather than bulletins poem could have come from a left viewpoint as much as from a right viewpoint.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Remember Mao&#39;s dictum:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Power comes from the business end of a rifle --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I didn&#39;t put it in quotes because I couldn&#39;t remember the exact quote.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Didn&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/1480247566166776410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/1480247566166776410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174759140000#c1480247566166776410' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8653035511229564379</id><published>2007-03-23T15:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T15:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen Way More West yet, but have to wond...</title><summary type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen &lt;I&gt;Way More West&lt;/I&gt; yet, but have to wonder if it included Dorn&#39;s work after &lt;I&gt;Abhorrences&lt;/I&gt;, or if Ron skipped that part.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Surely this review (and overview) overlooks the major work published in the last collection Dorn himself assembled, 1997&#39;s &lt;I&gt;High West Rendezvous&lt;/I&gt;. The sections from &lt;I&gt;Westward Haut&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Languedoc Variorum&lt;/I&gt; included there are anything</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8653035511229564379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8653035511229564379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174677480000#c8653035511229564379' title=''/><author><name>jeff</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06410386491643353394</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://static.flickr.com/38/115064123_cb384707b2_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634465795"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5560684461826195870</id><published>2007-03-23T00:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T00:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No, I like Ashbery immensely.  I do think he&#39;s fal...</title><summary type='text'>No, I like Ashbery immensely.  I do think he&#39;s fallen into a rut in recent years, and I&#39;m not the one to furnish an answer as to why this should be so.  Anyone with his slippery facility should be able to write (or argue) his way out of anything.  Perhaps he&#39;s just too pleasantly pleased with his own habitual rut to want to change it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dorn is everything Ron says he is, and so much more.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/5560684461826195870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/5560684461826195870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174625940000#c5560684461826195870' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8479538423940967519</id><published>2007-03-22T18:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T18:08:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8479538423940967519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8479538423940967519'/><author><name>jeff</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06410386491643353394</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://static.flickr.com/38/115064123_cb384707b2_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634465795"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7019667826807485047</id><published>2007-03-22T11:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T11:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m glad that Nathan (according to the profile he&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m glad that Nathan (according to the profile he&#39;s a Ph.D. student at UCLA) is willing to stand up for Maoism as a positive and to cite Alain Badiou to that effective.  Tel quel declared itself in Maoist in June 1971 and never reneged.  Tel quel consisted of Barthes, Kristeva, Sollers, Lacan, but also launched the careers of Derrida and Foucault.  When the allegations that 60 million had died in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/7019667826807485047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/7019667826807485047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174578720000#c7019667826807485047' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3721204986367471062</id><published>2007-03-22T10:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T10:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, well, I don’t see it as a dismissal; my co...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, well, I don’t see it as a dismissal; my comments weren’t directed at yours and I won’t attempt to prove the grave allegation that you and Ron are really saying the same thing. You would have hit the trifecta - arguing that Ashbery, Shapiro, and Dorn had all tanked since middle age in the space of a week, but here you would have had to agree with Ron.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you tell Kirbs the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/3721204986367471062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/3721204986367471062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174573560000#c3721204986367471062' 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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4837610358853431024</id><published>2007-03-22T10:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T10:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Speaking of wild &amp; crazy poets in their youth, see...</title><summary type='text'>Speaking of wild &amp; crazy poets in their youth, see the article on Chilean writer Roberto Bolano (author of &quot;Savage Detectives&quot;) in this week&#39;s New Yorker...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Regarding his politics, this funny litte Dorn passage (in Gunslinger) always struck me...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;To a poet all authority&lt;BR/&gt;except his own&lt;BR/&gt;is an expression of Evil&lt;BR/&gt;and it is all external authority&lt;BR/&gt;that he expiates&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4837610358853431024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4837610358853431024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174573200000#c4837610358853431024' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1977480992080566969</id><published>2007-03-22T00:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T00:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, I liked the first few paragraphs of your Do...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, I liked the first few paragraphs of your Dorn post above.  Good stuff.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Can&#39;t name names.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The literary CIA might be listening.  Never know what might happen five or ten years hence, when the guard is changed and the world turned upsidedown.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There was a little red button and a little red book....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/1977480992080566969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/1977480992080566969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174536540000#c1977480992080566969' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5214613043667960999</id><published>2007-03-21T17:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T17:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis -- do name names and present your evidence ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis -- do name names and present your evidence in terms of the Maoist attractions and to whom.  We&#39;d love to see what you refer to in the abstract presented as a case with those actually accused sitting in the comments box.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I assume that most leftists in SF in the early seventies had a lot of truck with Maoism in that period.  It was an enormous phenomenon in the French left of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/5214613043667960999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/5214613043667960999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174514340000#c5214613043667960999' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8617582850597841060</id><published>2007-03-21T15:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T15:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:I think you&#39;re missing the point of the critiq...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you&#39;re missing the point of the critiques here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My reaction was immediate, and intense.  Attempting to dismiss Dorn&#39;s work because he was:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A) Often an insufferable egotist and bad-tempered reactionary &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;B) Politically embarrassing and/or had the &quot;wrong&quot; opinions&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;C) Not a coherent critic of society, or of other poets (pro or con)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;is</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8617582850597841060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8617582850597841060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174505340000#c8617582850597841060' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4139075831365442635</id><published>2007-03-21T15:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T15:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, what more is there to say following the extr...</title><summary type='text'>Well, what more is there to say following the extremely articulate defenses of Dorn offered here so far?  Including Kent Johnson’s.  Just two comments:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. It might be worth looking up the term “singularity” in the OED, or even just googling its relevance to population growth, before declaring its incoherent relation to “the swamping of the gene swamp.”  It seems odd that a serious reader</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4139075831365442635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4139075831365442635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174504920000#c4139075831365442635' title=''/><author><name>nathan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05248130464084317263</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3791/3887/320/Light%3ABeams.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-316494353"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3947867202477225684</id><published>2007-03-21T14:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T14:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I can&#39;t speak to the selection of the new Selected...</title><summary type='text'>I can&#39;t speak to the selection of the new Selected because I haven&#39;t seen it yet. But it&#39;s noteworthy that &quot;one bullet&quot; is the second poem in Abhorrences. The last poem in that collection begins:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Did you know that&lt;BR/&gt;when they execute you in China&lt;BR/&gt;they send your next of kin&lt;BR/&gt;a bill for 1 Yang (28 cents)&lt;BR/&gt;to cover the cost of the bullet?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;After several lines, including </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/3947867202477225684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/3947867202477225684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174501800000#c3947867202477225684' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1095721894033587828</id><published>2007-03-21T14:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T14:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I found all the name dropping in this post to be i...</title><summary type='text'>I found all the name dropping in this post to be impressive. Outstanding, really.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/1095721894033587828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/1095721894033587828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174501140000#c1095721894033587828' title=''/><author><name>Radish King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/54/142341732_5c3580d6ba_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-597158701"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2563938748284164245</id><published>2007-03-21T11:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T11:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thath juth thilly!Thath not Writhing, thath juth T...</title><summary type='text'>Thath juth thilly!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thath not Writhing, thath juth Typing!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can speak from accurate first-hand experience:  Maoism had more than a modicum of attraction for certain key segments of the soi-disant &quot;Language poets&quot; group during the 1970&#39;s.  It&#39;s all true!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Shocking!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Captain Reynaud, here are your winnings....&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/2563938748284164245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/2563938748284164245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174491720000#c2563938748284164245' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4648367134591927196</id><published>2007-03-21T11:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T11:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As much as everyone is jumping all over Ron here, ...</title><summary type='text'>As much as everyone is jumping all over Ron here, I see all these retorts to be disputes over points of order rather than effective refutations of Ron’s assertions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Beyond the surface of this argument’s specifics is the larger phenomenon that while the juggernaut of this blog has done a great job of avenging the SoQ, the avant-garde exemplars that aren’t in good standing with Langpo get </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4648367134591927196'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4648367134591927196'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174491660000#c4648367134591927196' 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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8213269741565643855</id><published>2007-03-21T11:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T11:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Another note from the Cat in the Hat:Thanks, Ron. ...</title><summary type='text'>Another note from the Cat in the Hat:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks, Ron. Glad to have touched a nerve, there.&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;Are you absolutely sure that NO language poet ever harbored fuzzy feelings for the Cultural Revolution back when it took place? Those were heroic days, you might recall... Well, I guess you would know. Perhaps Langpos are free of Original Sin, unlike poets deserving of general disdain, such </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8213269741565643855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8213269741565643855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174491000000#c8213269741565643855' 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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2714667131488064075</id><published>2007-03-21T11:15:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T11:15:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think you have a full-fledged uprising on your h...</title><summary type='text'>I think you have a full-fledged uprising on your hands, here, Ron.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Should you call out the riot police, or retreat to the Presidential Palace?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Or both?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/2714667131488064075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/2714667131488064075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174490100001#c2714667131488064075' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3337181802205074871</id><published>2007-03-21T08:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-21T08:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent Johnson asks me to post this message for him....</title><summary type='text'>Kent Johnson asks me to post this message for him. Most of what&#39;s in it is silly, wrong or even false (e.g., the claim that any langpos were ever attracted to Mao, confusing langpo with Baraka maybe?), but he&#39;s allowed to make a fool of himself here too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is all quite predictable. Ron and original Language company just&lt;BR/&gt;can&#39;t purge the abhorrence spawned in them by </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/3337181802205074871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/3337181802205074871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174481220000#c3337181802205074871' 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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5558041693634448657</id><published>2007-03-20T18:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T18:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If, as you argue Mr. Silliman, Dorn connects Stein...</title><summary type='text'>If, as you argue Mr. Silliman, Dorn connects Stein to Hemingway with &quot;no more than a dash &amp; linebreak &amp; no verb phrase for either side of this equation&quot;, then the plurality of &quot;sumo champions&quot; directs its (however weak) modifying energy toward both Stein and Hemingway.  If that&#39;s so, you&#39;re grab at calling Dorn&#39;s text homophobic is an opportunistic marshalling of the progressive camps.  Ditto the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/5558041693634448657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/5558041693634448657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174428840000#c5558041693634448657' title=''/><author><name>Farid</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15133828840646829029</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-477028199"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8406391322568602280</id><published>2007-03-20T18:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T18:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well put, Kirby.</title><summary type='text'>Well put, Kirby.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8406391322568602280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/8406391322568602280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174428360000#c8406391322568602280' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan Penton</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10063708017183673227</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1329336818"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6142091681043112099</id><published>2007-03-20T16:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T16:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, at last a controversial attack on one of the...</title><summary type='text'>Well, at last a controversial attack on one of the elect!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And on political grounds!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pound=bad=anti-semitism + fascism.&lt;BR/&gt;Eliot=bad=religious devotion + monarchism.&lt;BR/&gt;Ransom=bad=bigotry + strict form&lt;BR/&gt;Stevens=bad=capitalist complacency + frivolity&lt;BR/&gt;Moore=bad=placemat doilies + conservative &lt;BR/&gt;Cummings=bad=juvenile tricks + apolitical apathy&lt;BR/&gt;Williams=bad=tired </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/6142091681043112099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/6142091681043112099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174423080000#c6142091681043112099' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4656129806696256285</id><published>2007-03-20T13:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T13:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I love Dorn and Tom Clark because they keep an ope...</title><summary type='text'>I love Dorn and Tom Clark because they keep an open investigation in place: and are often iconoclastic toward the blinkers of the left (where peace will come if pacifism is practiced, for instance, which isn&#39;t true in most cases).  Dorn&#39;s poem in praise of bullets over bulletins is meant largely as a provocation rather than as a treatise of consolidated opinion.  He would argue for instance that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4656129806696256285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6592481815661918100/comments/default/4656129806696256285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html?showComment=1174413300000#c4656129806696256285' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/for-reader-of-my-generation-collection.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6592481815661918100' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6592481815661918100' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2007"/></entry></feed>