<?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.post6715844362587167598..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/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/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>34</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7131789633820031798</id><published>2008-05-09T14:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T14:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Discrete Series may not be Oppen&#39;s &quot;best&quot; work, bu...</title><summary type='text'>Discrete Series may not be Oppen&#39;s &quot;best&quot; work, but it is a success in it&#39;s own right, mostly (no, entirely) because it seeks and finds the limits of Objectivism. It exhibits the failure of the Objectivist poetic.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If Oppen&#39;s later work is &quot;lax, sentimental&quot; or in this blog&#39;s jargon &quot;quiet,&quot; it is not because Oppen has slipped in his craft but because the Objectivist poetic failed to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7131789633820031798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7131789633820031798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1210356180000#c7131789633820031798' title=''/><author><name>chippens</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319797537274875566</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-197089391"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-567298569137554169</id><published>2007-09-17T13:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T13:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apollinaire coined the term Surrealist before Surr...</title><summary type='text'>Apollinaire coined the term Surrealist before Surrealism existed as a movement. The Surrealism of Breton &amp;tc did get the term from Apollinaire. Goll also to use the term in a more general way, but the Breton crowd beat him to it so to speak. Apollinaire was *never* part of the Surrealist group (he was dead by then).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The important part in Seth&#39;s comment is not surrealist or not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/567298569137554169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/567298569137554169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1190051820000#c567298569137554169' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3845803599592836063</id><published>2007-09-17T03:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-17T03:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian (&amp; Brian),When is one&#39;s age an excuse to not p...</title><summary type='text'>Ian (&amp; Brian),&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When is one&#39;s age an excuse to not process the symbolism/references in a poem within their, or the poet&#39;s, historical context?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is it then the case than anyone born after 1960 will not be able to &quot;get at&quot;, as example, Lowell&#39;s &quot;Man and Wife&quot;? --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother&#39;s bed;&lt;BR/&gt;the rising sun in war paint dyes us red;&lt;BR/&gt;in broad daylight </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/3845803599592836063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/3845803599592836063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1190015220000#c3845803599592836063' title=''/><author><name>barnes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18048458442561567603</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1344149813"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8683354562058869432</id><published>2007-09-16T18:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T18:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My responses to Oppen&#39;s later work are not very co...</title><summary type='text'>My responses to Oppen&#39;s later work are not very complex, because I simply couldn&#39;t see much in it.  An early admirer of Discrete Series, which I first saw and read in the rare book room of the UC Berkeley Library in 1967, I went on to like much in the next two later books The Materials and This In Which.  I felt Of Being Numerous to be slightly diffuse; that Oppen wasn&#39;t the kind of poet to essay</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/8683354562058869432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/8683354562058869432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189980360000#c8683354562058869432' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3851354501182623742</id><published>2007-09-16T16:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T16:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When Ron makes a mistake on a consumer brand name,...</title><summary type='text'>When Ron makes a mistake on a consumer brand name, negating one throwaway sentence, suddenly there’s a department where all the anonymous experts (‘Brian’) can find a pretense to dismiss the literary interpretation.  He stumbled into your turf!  When he makes a mistake about jeans, sneakers, and the fall television lineup you’ll be ready to dismiss all critical perception once and for all.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/3851354501182623742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/3851354501182623742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189975380000#c3851354501182623742' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1507011547958506932</id><published>2007-09-16T13:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T13:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Ron&#39;s reading of Foust&#39;s poem points to th...</title><summary type='text'>I think Ron&#39;s reading of Foust&#39;s poem points to the problem of an elder anointing a younger, as is traditional in our feudal poetry world (though Ron delivers blog-blurbs and blurbs rather than prizes and book publications). In this case, Ron misses a crucial part of the title, which seems hard to miss given that &quot;Huffy&quot; is the fourth poem in Foust&#39;s book and follows three poems named after Van </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/1507011547958506932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/1507011547958506932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189963260000#c1507011547958506932' title=''/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01173753299630591496</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-205390095"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6434280901578460599</id><published>2007-09-16T11:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T11:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ten cents for Ron not being entitled to the same o...</title><summary type='text'>Ten cents for Ron not being entitled to the same opinion that Rachel bD is entitled to, plus a two cent surcharge for the anonymous threat-maker.  Get it ... “same”.... “Blanchot”.... “same”.... pretty damn impressive.  Plus Ed’s right, it’s much better to conspire in private.  First they prefer Oppen’s youth, then they want to write for the common people.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Seth, Apollinaire is certainly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/6434280901578460599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/6434280901578460599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189958340000#c6434280901578460599' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5703739508160077337</id><published>2007-09-15T20:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T20:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear &quot;Nearfar&quot;,we should connect...  Bare Bones Bo...</title><summary type='text'>Dear &quot;Nearfar&quot;,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;we should connect...&lt;BR/&gt;  Bare Bones Bonze (site)&lt;BR/&gt;I just today posted a piece of art/note to Shizumi Corman in Kyoto..&lt;BR/&gt;and a note/poem to Ted Enslin..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; anything further wld be private.. this &quot;open forum&quot; AIN&#39;T much any-which-way productive.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers, Ed Baker</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/5703739508160077337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/5703739508160077337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189901580000#c5703739508160077337' title=''/><author><name>Ed</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2444878164090548427</id><published>2007-09-15T18:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T18:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian,Just want to make sure I understood you--as Ap...</title><summary type='text'>Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;Just want to make sure I understood you--as Apollinaire coined the term &quot;surrealism,&quot; isn&#39;t it fair to consider him a surrealist (at least a proto-surrealist) whether or not the movement reached its peak after his untimely death...?  Again, not arguing with you, just wanted to be certain you weren&#39;t advocating the view that Apollinaire can&#39;t be considered a (capital &quot;s&quot;) Surrealist.&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2444878164090548427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2444878164090548427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189894440000#c2444878164090548427' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8667307555571570601</id><published>2007-09-15T10:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T10:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If I had a dollar for every &quot;serious blogger&quot; who&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>If I had a dollar for every &quot;serious blogger&quot; who&#39;d matriculated over to WordPress only to later come back to Blogger, I&#39;d take everyone out to lunch.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/8667307555571570601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/8667307555571570601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189866840000#c8667307555571570601' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7916003808122976911</id><published>2007-09-15T10:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T10:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice analysis, but I agree with those who mentione...</title><summary type='text'>Nice analysis, but I agree with those who mentioned that &quot;Huffy&quot; is a reference to a brand of bike.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Other than the stimulation, I&#39;m a bit put off by being forced to log into Blogger when I don&#39;t even use it any more. &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://worldclasspoetryblog.com/?p=7&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Serious bloggers have matriculated over to WordPress and I particularly like being able to trackback&lt;/A&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7916003808122976911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7916003808122976911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189866360000#c7916003808122976911' title=''/><author><name>poetwarrior</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05254782956560017376</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-309325516"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7709602234656927567</id><published>2007-09-15T08:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T08:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron writes: &quot;This is, I think, the problem with th...</title><summary type='text'>Ron writes: &quot;This is, I think, the problem with the later work of George Oppen, for example, which is sentimental &amp; lax in comparison to his earlier books&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m pissed. Why does Silliman make these kind of comments.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, he sounds &quot;lazy&quot;, because he&#39;s made this argument about Oppen many times before. Apparently, it has its origins in an essay of his published in the _The New </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7709602234656927567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7709602234656927567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189860720000#c7709602234656927567' title=''/><author><name>NearFar</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15332109996702426302</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1356016621"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6952301113423452405</id><published>2007-09-15T07:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T07:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:  I guess what I meant was the Eshleman&#39;s &quot;sty...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:  I guess what I meant was the Eshleman&#39;s &quot;style&quot;--however you want to characterize it, isn&#39;t obviously in debt to any particular poet.  Dorn, for instance, was heavily indebted to Olson for a long time, but eventually became more individualized and unique.  Everyone&#39;s--at least in the early stages--the child of something.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/6952301113423452405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/6952301113423452405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189857120000#c6952301113423452405' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-821224158170351375</id><published>2007-09-15T04:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T04:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, It would be interesting to find a poet who...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, It would be interesting to find a poet who is truly his own man, who has no influences whatsoever and has figured out what a poem is without any outside prompting.  If Eshelman wanted to be thought of as such he wouldn’t make so many references in his poems to his influences and write so many footnotes about which poets particular poems were influenced by.  He is usually most profoundly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/821224158170351375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/821224158170351375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189843860000#c821224158170351375' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7827832444025115565</id><published>2007-09-14T20:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T20:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron–the &#39;Huffy&#39; title takes less thinking than you...</title><summary type='text'>Ron–the &#39;Huffy&#39; title takes less thinking than you are giving it. Huffy was a bicycle manufacturing company, ca, 40&#39;s-90&#39;s, that produced Wal-Mart variety, or as Foust prefers &#39;shit-to-bed ten-speed&#39; cycles.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7827832444025115565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7827832444025115565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189817820000#c7827832444025115565' title=''/><author><name>Tortilla ex Machina</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599458885"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-890460954539368769</id><published>2007-09-14T18:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T18:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice poem, g. foust, wherever you are. Like the co...</title><summary type='text'>Nice poem, g. foust, wherever you are. Like the cover image too. Ron&#39;s review made me want to buy it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/890460954539368769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/890460954539368769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189810560000#c890460954539368769' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1780267663184732441</id><published>2007-09-14T16:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T16:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>working last years stash of rounds..splitting  sta...</title><summary type='text'>working last years stash of rounds..&lt;BR/&gt;splitting  stacking&lt;BR/&gt;have yet to scrounge for wood..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;lots of bythewayside logs here in D.C. free for the haul-in&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In America One can certainly live well on what is thrown away&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I tend to start slowly... and taper ...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;save&quot; something for &quot;the finish&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;Ted yet  the last time I visited splits his own logs&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;not</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/1780267663184732441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/1780267663184732441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189802700000#c1780267663184732441' title=''/><author><name>Ed</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2445508796645450436</id><published>2007-09-14T16:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T16:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>John Trubee hadOne Grammarred all of Faustwhose Ou...</title><summary type='text'>John Trubee had&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One Gram&lt;BR/&gt;marred all of Faust&lt;BR/&gt;whose Ouster&lt;BR/&gt;at the Left&lt;BR/&gt;made &#39;hoofy&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;try anglerfish&lt;BR/&gt;to lanterns&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;within the coma,&lt;BR/&gt;we have raised this&lt;BR/&gt;transparent human shaped&lt;BR/&gt;punctuation zeppelin&lt;BR/&gt;and filled it with lights&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Alot of people&lt;BR/&gt;are moving here from Berlin&lt;BR/&gt;now because of me&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;it may take some weeks&lt;BR/&gt;but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2445508796645450436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2445508796645450436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189802520000#c2445508796645450436' 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='32' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/images/phanero.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2572931651732975740</id><published>2007-09-14T16:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T16:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Excuse me sir, don&#39;t you mean Augusta?  Augusta Ma...</title><summary type='text'>Excuse me sir, don&#39;t you mean Augusta?  Augusta Maine the thick end of summer where I&#39;m from?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2572931651732975740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2572931651732975740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189800000000#c2572931651732975740' title=''/><author><name>mike</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17952891057048138884</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.thomasmichaelcorcoran.com/ghost_face.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1751128492"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8997488999313085872</id><published>2007-09-14T14:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T14:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>this is a &quot;heated&quot; d&#39;bate, man! ongoinggoingongone...</title><summary type='text'>this is a &quot;heated&quot; d&#39;bate, man! ongoinggoingongone&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;making every word carry it s own weight  and counting on it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;oh them peaceable bonobos they (certainly) know how to be/have   public/private  same....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I always competed on my Specialized &#39;Sirus&#39;  had I but had a Kestral-Compi!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;a Huffy  for the bikey-trail &lt;BR/&gt;   once-in-a-whiler-wheeler set..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;time to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/8997488999313085872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/8997488999313085872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189795980000#c8997488999313085872' title=''/><author><name>Ed</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1347692647705943080</id><published>2007-09-14T14:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T14:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>FOUST (2007):August, the thick end of summer where...</title><summary type='text'>FOUST (2007):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;August, the thick end of summer where I’m from &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I’ve a grill&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Shrewd tools&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A bag of glue&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Some Neil Young&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The world eats what it orders&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My neighbors cough and wave and wave and frown&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your youngest cousin weaves by on a shit-to-bed ten-speed&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Two crutches tucked under her too-white right arm&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/1347692647705943080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/1347692647705943080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189795380000#c1347692647705943080' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7977051165203347164</id><published>2007-09-14T14:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T14:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s extremely difficult to formulate a code of pr...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s extremely difficult to formulate a code of practice which could apply to different individual voices within a so-called group or movement or coterie.  That&#39;s one reason that Grand Piano is going to reveal itself as an illusionary mirage.  It&#39;s one thing to try to show common terms and concerns across specific work(s), such as compiling &quot;Beat&quot; poetry anthologies of work by Snyder, Kerouac, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7977051165203347164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/7977051165203347164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189794000000#c7977051165203347164' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2652833849152046110</id><published>2007-09-14T14:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T14:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Third Way is a force for change of which we wi...</title><summary type='text'>The Third Way is a force for change of which we will see much more very soon.  The PIC (Poetry-Industrial Complex) has been slowly dsintegrating for a while now, ever since the Internal Affairs Committee began holding hearings on Card-Carrying Groupies, in 1982, and you deserve a lot of credit, Ron, for spearheading that, along with your friend Barrett Bullitt.  Kudos.  When the light shines the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2652833849152046110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2652833849152046110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189793460000#c2652833849152046110' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-361496989392932554</id><published>2007-09-14T14:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T14:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>An awful lot of stuff covered in this post--Foust&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>An awful lot of stuff covered in this post--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Foust&#39;s use of the signifier is not that different from Michael Palmer&#39;s (though he doesn&#39;t share MP&#39;s fascination with philosophical play and gamesmanship).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Compare his use to that, say, of Clark Coolidge&#39;s.  CC&#39;s use of signifiers is often non-specific, as if a word&#39;s actual meaning is only one dimension of its value.  He creates </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/361496989392932554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/361496989392932554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189792980000#c361496989392932554' 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/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2686387432369965952</id><published>2007-09-14T12:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T12:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I wrote a brief critique of Foust on rhubarb.I thi...</title><summary type='text'>I wrote a brief critique of &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://rhubarbissusan.blogspot.com/2007/01/graham-foust-rural-mall-with-flag-at.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Foust&lt;/A&gt; on rhubarb.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think promoting him as &quot;Universally Decodable&quot; is not the best thing (I personally linked him to what I called the &lt;I&gt;Typo&lt;/I&gt; style.) &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think the idea of a &quot;Third Way&quot; emerging out of &quot;Post Avant&quot; and &quot;School of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2686387432369965952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6715844362587167598/comments/default/2686387432369965952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html?showComment=1189786320000#c2686387432369965952' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/09/brian-calvins-half-mast-is-cover-image.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6715844362587167598' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6715844362587167598' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2007"/></entry></feed>