<?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.post7958114889117312094..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/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5833815345746171005</id><published>2009-03-25T15:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-25T15:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;That part of your poetry which strikes upon the i...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;That part of your poetry which strikes upon the imaginative eye of the reader will lose nothing by translation into a foreign tongue; that which appeals to the ear can reach only those who take it in the original.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;- Ezra Pound</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5833815345746171005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5833815345746171005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1238010840000#c5833815345746171005' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8525752764624704882</id><published>2009-03-11T08:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T08:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I guess I should have said &#39;painting a crow yellow...</title><summary type='text'>I guess I should have said &#39;painting a crow yellow&#39; instead of a bluebird. It&#39;s the music, Andy, the song that&#39;s lost.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/8525752764624704882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/8525752764624704882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236776040000#c8525752764624704882' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8585812892236252707</id><published>2009-03-09T23:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T23:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, Eshleman&#39;s Vallejo (and, for that matter, Jo...</title><summary type='text'>Well, Eshleman&#39;s Vallejo (and, for that matter, Johnson&#39;s/Gander&#39;s Saenz) is mind-blowing poetry. It shakes me up in all sorts of ways, makes things seem possible (or seems to perform the impossible--doubly so in the case of Vallejo&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Trilce&lt;/I&gt;, a heroic act of translation if ever there was one). I don&#39;t see how that&#39;s in any way &lt;I&gt;inferior&lt;/I&gt; to anything else. And I&#39;m not sure that this is</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/8585812892236252707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/8585812892236252707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236655320000#c8585812892236252707' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1688264338779665389</id><published>2009-03-09T12:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T12:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Speaking as one who makes frequent use of internal...</title><summary type='text'>Speaking as one who makes frequent use of internal rhyme of many types and also one who has read poetry in French, German and Russian, translating a poem, in my opinion, is like painting a bluebird yellow and calling it a canary.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/1688264338779665389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/1688264338779665389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236615960000#c1688264338779665389' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5344121842507697806</id><published>2009-03-09T11:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T11:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,There is nothing here I disagree with!When ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There is nothing here I disagree with!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When you say:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Obviously, there are a number of &quot;translations&quot; which are in and of themselves &quot;great literature&quot; in their own right. But they aren&#39;t--cannot by definition be--true translations, if by that word we mean the metaphysical transportation of the exact quality and essence of the original.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I say, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5344121842507697806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5344121842507697806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236611400000#c5344121842507697806' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-629711016605590888</id><published>2009-03-09T00:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T00:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent:  Timing isn&#39;t everything.  Life goes on in i...</title><summary type='text'>Kent:  Timing isn&#39;t everything.  Life goes on in its multi-tracked fashion, i.e., Auden&#39;s &quot;While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along&quot; etc. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you address a problem I&#39;ve considered recently in more than one place.  Check out my post regarding Zukofsky&#39;s Catullus for Feb 24 (http://www.compassrosebooks.blogspot.com/). &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You say--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/629711016605590888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/629711016605590888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236573120000#c629711016605590888' 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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2175990977161295170</id><published>2009-03-07T22:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T22:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The timing of my comment above is awkward, I see, ...</title><summary type='text'>The timing of my comment above is awkward, I see, to say the least, given the loss in Ron&#39;s family. I feel bad about it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/2175990977161295170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/2175990977161295170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236481560000#c2175990977161295170' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-619635236284651544</id><published>2009-03-07T16:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T16:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Quoting a paragraph entire, as the statement reall...</title><summary type='text'>Quoting a paragraph entire, as the statement really is quite extraordinary:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Just as glaring an absence I would think is the complete absence of poetry in translation, or in another language. Part of this, of course, may well be that very little literature in translation genuinely qualifies on its own as great literature – The Rubiyat, The King James Bible, that just might be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/619635236284651544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/619635236284651544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236461880000#c619635236284651544' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4989645769596077772</id><published>2009-03-07T12:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T12:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy: I&#39;m not sure what you mean; why is it only a...</title><summary type='text'>Andy: I&#39;m not sure what you mean; why is it only a choice of one or the other, past or present, and not a balance? Four living poets are on my list, several only recently deceased — but if all the early influences come from one &#39;moment&#39; of a  subculture, say the 1960s, that seems undeniably insular to me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/4989645769596077772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/4989645769596077772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236448680000#c4989645769596077772' title=''/><author><name>Daniel E. Pritchard</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7sPnkNOxvO8/SGmGcCgxysI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cNo_Qb4PqsE/s1600-R/gse_multipart17382.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5364050467284700831</id><published>2009-03-07T08:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T08:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I first knew Cody&#39;s on Telegraph, when he had noth...</title><summary type='text'>I first knew Cody&#39;s on Telegraph, when he had nothing but paperbacks--new paperbacks.  Fred Cody sold me my hardcover copy of Cummings&#39;s Poems, in, I think,&lt;BR/&gt;1963.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Those were the days.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5364050467284700831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5364050467284700831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236432120000#c5364050467284700831' 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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6776256358875783469</id><published>2009-03-07T00:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T00:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah, yes, Ponge. What an eye-opener; I met him in t...</title><summary type='text'>Ah, yes, Ponge. What an eye-opener; I met him in the Co-op bookstore, in the embodiment of the little Grossman (I think) edition of &lt;I&gt;Soap&lt;/I&gt;. But, Ron, you write &lt;I&gt;Cody’s which was still on Grove where Fat Apples is today&lt;/I&gt;, no, Cody opened on Euclid just north of Hearst, was never on Grove Street.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/6776256358875783469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/6776256358875783469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236405420000#c6776256358875783469' title=''/><author><name>Charles Shere</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2MqkzpICYFQ/SPto2470lFI/AAAAAAAABI4/8VV47AuPwlU/S220/IMG_7780_2.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-964337135"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5930131827780494712</id><published>2009-03-06T22:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T22:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel,What you see as &quot;insularity&quot; I see as an en...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What you see as &quot;insularity&quot; I see as an enviable set of encounters with the writing actually being made during one&#39;s own time. I&#39;d guess that most of us had almost none of that during our early years of encountering poetry, the years during which availability and ubiquity trumped the degree of choice we were able to have in the matter. Most of us, I&#39;d guess, got only the past-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5930131827780494712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/5930131827780494712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236397920000#c5930131827780494712' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7901275272648544774</id><published>2009-03-06T19:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T19:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw Rimbaud in New York a couple of times. He wa...</title><summary type='text'>I saw Rimbaud in New York a couple of times. He was hanging out at Bill&#39;s Bar and then he took the train to Flatbush Avenue. I also ran into Nerval at a Red Lobster in Livermore.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7901275272648544774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7901275272648544774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236384720000#c7901275272648544774' title=''/><author><name>Steven Trull</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12568485477185375841</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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-860282443"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4729005460243024445</id><published>2009-03-06T15:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T15:53:00.000-05:00</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/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/4729005460243024445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/4729005460243024445'/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1161566760124899350</id><published>2009-03-06T14:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T14:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, the photo caption may be the best part here, ...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, the photo caption may be the best part here, and yes I clicked through and got that story but still it&#39;s just my imagination and forgive me but the term &quot;lawn boy&quot; raises illicit notions and then there&#39;s those very recognizable politco names and suddenly I&#39;m in Paul Krassner or J.G. Ballard territory though why I dunno as no doubt it was all innocent young man work push mowing grass trimming</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/1161566760124899350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/1161566760124899350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236369240000#c1161566760124899350' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-537946372321665850</id><published>2009-03-06T12:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T12:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>1) Gertrude Stein wrote Tender Buttons2) If you cl...</title><summary type='text'>1) Gertrude Stein wrote Tender Buttons&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2) If you click through on the photo, you will see what Ginsberg, Blaser &amp;amp; Welch were up to and why it related to the presence of Dean Rusk &amp;amp; Adlai Stevenson in Berkeley (the session with Madam Nhu was, I believe, at the Greek Theater, but was by invitation only).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/537946372321665850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/537946372321665850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236358920000#c537946372321665850' 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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2420263273164667572</id><published>2009-03-06T10:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T10:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you Ron, you somewhat outlined and interpret...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you Ron, you somewhat outlined and interpreted my personal history through sharing that of yours here. Line by line, it is as if I am reading an open note directly penned by my own persona.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;  I am an American Culture&amp;amp;Literature undergraduate from Istanbul, Turkey. And, if it weren&amp;#39;t for my poetry teacher Carl Jeffrey Boon, I&amp;#39;d still be reading works and tracing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/2420263273164667572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/2420263273164667572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236354180000#c2420263273164667572' 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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790371086"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7432105223241799298</id><published>2009-03-06T10:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T10:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pardon the confessionalism, but your post this mor...</title><summary type='text'>Pardon the confessionalism, but your post this morning got me meditating on class...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Having been born-n-raised in rural northeast Alabama in crippling poverty,it&#39;s a wonder to me that I&#39;m now even reading this blog, or that I&#39;ve developed a passion for experimental theater, and the list goes on and on of things I might not have had access to if, amidst all the horrible teachers and lack </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7432105223241799298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7432105223241799298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236353940000#c7432105223241799298' title=''/><author><name>Steven</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04536333539671529329</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/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1685245714"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7866653968644150334</id><published>2009-03-06T09:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T09:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Who wrote &#39;Tender Buttons&#39;?I grew up in a similarl...</title><summary type='text'>Who wrote &#39;Tender Buttons&#39;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I grew up in a similarly non-literary blue-collar house: no college degrees, no success in business; we had rows of National Geographic, my grandfather&#39;s collection of spy novels and westerns, and a few classics like Crusoe and Alice in Wonderland — my family was very supportive of my education and inclination for books though, thankfully.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your list </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7866653968644150334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7866653968644150334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236351480000#c7866653968644150334' title=''/><author><name>Daniel E. Pritchard</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7sPnkNOxvO8/SGmGcCgxysI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cNo_Qb4PqsE/s1600-R/gse_multipart17382.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2277483494917881943</id><published>2009-03-06T09:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T09:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>WOW! What a caption. It kind of makes me want to p...</title><summary type='text'>WOW! What a caption. It kind of makes me want to put a photo of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing on my blog and give it a title like &amp;quot;July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong is the first man to set foot on the moon. Meanwhile, back on earth, I tried to kiss Debbie Pantesco on the lips when she came over to my  house to watch H.R. Pufnstuf because we had a big color t.v. set.&amp;quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It may be true * </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/2277483494917881943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/2277483494917881943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236349620000#c2277483494917881943' 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='32' height='31' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HakneZ76Pf4/SXat8k7CPrI/AAAAAAAABCg/KoiLztV8_Ro/S220/ricky-maine.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599458885"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7069633248862851142</id><published>2009-03-06T08:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T08:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well I&#39;ve fallen in love with Didi&#39;s mag.  It&#39;s am...</title><summary type='text'>Well I&#39;ve fallen in love with Didi&#39;s mag.  It&#39;s amazing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Honestly though.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ironically Ron, you can pick several dozens of female writers the second day but you could only come up with Gertie Stein?  Not even sure if Gert was a woman to be honest.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How about your second grade teacher or third?  How about your mom...did she read to you?  Not even a little Mother Goose?&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7069633248862851142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/7069633248862851142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236345240000#c7069633248862851142' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8434490811184926332</id><published>2009-03-06T07:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T07:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I have been noticing many bloggers posting about p...</title><summary type='text'>I have been noticing many bloggers posting about poetry books they fell in love with. I can&#39;t participate in these threads. I never fell in love with poetry. Ever. Sorry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I fell in love with other things. Things I will not blog about but you can probably pick up what they are by just watching what I do online.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like that picture you have on the post.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Didi</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/8434490811184926332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7958114889117312094/comments/default/8434490811184926332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html?showComment=1236343200000#c8434490811184926332' title=''/><author><name>Didi Menendez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08195202743154382432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yyMS6N_gKRg/SNJCVSW357I/AAAAAAAABUM/B1Wp110t840/S220/Picture+80.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/l-r-allen-ginsberg-lew-welch-robin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7958114889117312094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7958114889117312094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301407041"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 06, 2009"/></entry></feed>