<?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.post8026769449882597737..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/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.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>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4038169021044932640</id><published>2009-10-18T11:03:05.995-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T11:03:05.995-04:00</updated><title type='text'>essentialism, socrates, blah blah blah.&#xa;&#xa;if we cou...</title><summary type='text'>essentialism, socrates, blah blah blah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if we could approach homer and sappho and whoever else nowadays they&amp;#39;d say we don&amp;#39;t get them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i know that much (and the title is a little corny)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this poem you presented was pretty sterile and empty. nietzsche would consider it socratic, i&amp;#39;d guess so at least. the rhetoric in the last line is just too easy to pull </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/4038169021044932640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/4038169021044932640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255878185995#c4038169021044932640' title=''/><author><name>Ry</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175809969730449639</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cw_VYGRm1-w/SZiq0z-QpeI/AAAAAAAAAAY/3rwBvuZRH9o/S220/1053_Voice.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1375212339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8598079028641290176</id><published>2009-10-16T20:45:57.290-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T20:45:57.290-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The word ladder comes from the greek,&#xa;and if you t...</title><summary type='text'>The word ladder comes from the greek,&lt;br /&gt;and if you translate the ancient word&lt;br /&gt;ladder comes from on google translate you get &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;staircase. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but if you add another word which google translate does you get ladder,&lt;br /&gt;however, if you translate the etym on babelfish you get the odd word&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;klimax&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not climax&lt;br /&gt;but klimax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you look up the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/8598079028641290176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/8598079028641290176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255740357290#c8598079028641290176' 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='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929910419510811961</id><published>2009-10-16T12:58:56.941-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-16T12:58:56.941-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The ending of the poem you used as an example, Ron...</title><summary type='text'>The ending of the poem you used as an example, Ron, is ruined for me because it made me somewhat relive Donald Rumsfeld&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;known knowns&amp;quot; comments. I wish I could just erase the Bush years from my memory.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/8929910419510811961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/8929910419510811961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255712336941#c8929910419510811961' title=''/><author><name>Larry Sawyer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='21' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V4TdVjSvuHY/SWo3Vztl81I/AAAAAAAAA-8/dQVYhYwvbHA/S220/e.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-633681119"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8525035245769102476</id><published>2009-10-14T22:02:00.926-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T22:02:00.926-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Poem for Devin Johnston:&#xa;&#xa;ooh ooh&#xa;When you love so...</title><summary type='text'>Poem for Devin Johnston:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ooh ooh&lt;br /&gt;When you love someone so deeply&lt;br /&gt;They become your life&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside&lt;br /&gt;Blindly I imagined I could&lt;br /&gt;Keep you under glass&lt;br /&gt;Now I understand to hold you&lt;br /&gt;I must open up my hands and watch you rise&lt;br /&gt;Chorus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spread you wings and prepare to fly&lt;br /&gt;For you have become a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/8525035245769102476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/8525035245769102476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255572120926#c8525035245769102476' title=''/><author><name>Boo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16464469590325359711</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5-MqNPPlsU8/SlOcOeURteI/AAAAAAAAAAM/hzAVEYsUdKw/S220/DSC02519.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1913277207"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-64664654193144136</id><published>2009-10-14T17:37:25.320-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T17:37:25.320-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re &amp;quot;The Greeks&amp;quot;: Just noticed the Mahavi...</title><summary type='text'>Re &amp;quot;The Greeks&amp;quot;: Just noticed the Mahavishnu Orchestra reference in the last line there.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/64664654193144136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/64664654193144136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255556245320#c64664654193144136' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3961863864069537294</id><published>2009-10-14T15:34:04.330-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-14T15:34:04.330-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmm.&#xa;&#xa;Rather than delete it, which would be a way ...</title><summary type='text'>Hmm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather than delete it, which would be a way of disowning its content, I&amp;#39;ll say that my previous comment is pointless--or, rather, the making of it was to no real purpose. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hm.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/3961863864069537294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/3961863864069537294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255548844330#c3961863864069537294' 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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3823717026697542363</id><published>2009-10-13T22:28:05.255-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T22:28:05.255-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I confess I find it strange to criticize a po...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I confess I find it strange to criticize a poem for having a &amp;quot;limited&amp;quot; music, especially if the poem works on other levels. To use your metaphor of musical instruments: when I listen to a folk music record, I don&amp;#39;t feel disappointed if there are no electric guitars. Likewise, it doesn&amp;#39;t bother me if there are no acoustic guitars or mandolins in a rock song, or hurdy-gurdies</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/3823717026697542363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/3823717026697542363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255487285255#c3823717026697542363' title=''/><author><name>Cy Mathews</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03244437975709553222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b4REVX6FKWI/SsgCjedVorI/AAAAAAAAAF4/cdRZQuD8NPU/S220/cy.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1685508273"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9182799999108319349</id><published>2009-10-13T17:46:00.089-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T17:46:00.089-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Greeks:  beguiling, enriching, hapless and enn...</title><summary type='text'>The Greeks:  beguiling, enriching, hapless and ennobling.  According to Virginia Woolf (“On Not Knowing Greek”), we cannot know them.  The centuries and their lost language make them opaque to us.  And yet they engage us; they speak of us.  They are our western ancestors, ancestors we can never exceed as writers (Objections noted).  But, “Ladders lean/against the sky,” and we have hope of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/9182799999108319349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/9182799999108319349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255470360089#c9182799999108319349' title=''/><author><name>Professor</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08962522438887081940</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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1287205728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3309683387935534876</id><published>2009-10-13T16:56:26.503-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T16:56:26.503-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This assessment of Johnston&amp;#39;s poetry is so def...</title><summary type='text'>This assessment of Johnston&amp;#39;s poetry is so defined by the restricted binaries that have come to characterize a Silliman thought as to make me consider the whole act of reading poetry hopeless and/or useless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&amp;#39;s the old stand-by of post-avant v. quietist, but here bolstered by precision v. maverick, stillness v. shouting, speech v. song, childishness v. childlikeness, cello</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/3309683387935534876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/3309683387935534876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255467386503#c3309683387935534876' title=''/><author><name>Peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13623296704563726700</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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1486293495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6679527596644893427</id><published>2009-10-13T15:58:04.666-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T15:58:04.666-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For those comparison shopping, there&amp;#39;s my revi...</title><summary type='text'>For those comparison shopping, there&amp;#39;s my review of &lt;i&gt;Sources&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2008/12/devin-johnstons-sources.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, my review of &lt;i&gt;Creaturely&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2009/05/devin-johnstons-creaturely.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/6679527596644893427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/6679527596644893427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255463884666#c6679527596644893427' title=''/><author><name>John Latta</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01215219604418390000</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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-403606533"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7449642057722869377</id><published>2009-10-13T15:42:47.018-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T15:42:47.018-04:00</updated><title type='text'>He is SO good at what he does,&#xa;and it is SO boring...</title><summary type='text'>He is SO good at what he does,&lt;br /&gt;and it is SO boring. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not a challenge of any kind in the whole book, or even the sense of a life that invites questions that truly disrupt anything. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I, too, feel ambivalent, but it&amp;#39;s more about whether I think this writing is simply very much not my thing or is actually an utterly reactionary, aristocratic version of craft that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/7449642057722869377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/7449642057722869377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255462967018#c7449642057722869377' 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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5526134327238412795</id><published>2009-10-13T13:25:28.332-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T13:25:28.332-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the substance of the post, which concerns Devin...</title><summary type='text'>On the substance of the post, which concerns Devin Johnston&amp;#39;s actual poetry . . . the one example given in the post isn&amp;#39;t enough to say much of anything.  But there are a number of poems from &lt;i&gt;Sources&lt;/i&gt; on the web, and of course the book can be read in  stores (or some of them), or even bought or borrowed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could tell here about why I like poems by Johnston and Graham </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/5526134327238412795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/5526134327238412795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255454728332#c5526134327238412795' 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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2805548536206261094</id><published>2009-10-13T11:22:26.989-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T11:22:26.989-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;gt;On the other, I have this ontological problem:...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;gt;On the other, I have this ontological problem: where is the world I know? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that these things don&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;overlap,&amp;quot; but I think that&amp;#39;s more like an *epistemological* problem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/2805548536206261094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/2805548536206261094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255447346989#c2805548536206261094' 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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2177639344716286960</id><published>2009-10-13T09:49:21.908-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T09:49:21.908-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What&amp;#39;s wrong with ambivalence? Seems like a pe...</title><summary type='text'>What&amp;#39;s wrong with ambivalence? Seems like a perfectly honest reaction to me, and worthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For what it&amp;#39;s worth, DJ&amp;#39;s essays are chiefly interesting to me for pointing toward Gustaf Sobin&amp;#39;s three late collections of prose about archeology and Provence. (And if there were an elderflower lobby he&amp;#39;d never hear the end of it.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/2177639344716286960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/2177639344716286960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255441761908#c2177639344716286960' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5743874653790600948</id><published>2009-10-13T09:13:28.881-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T09:13:28.881-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron--&#xa;&#xa;Not saying a I agree (or disagree) with thi...</title><summary type='text'>Ron--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not saying a I agree (or disagree) with this post, but I love the idea of equating a certain music or instrument to this book of poems.  Cello seems right on for &amp;quot;The Greeks,&amp;quot; and now I&amp;#39;m thinking about how (what instrument(s), what type of music) we might &amp;quot;hear&amp;quot; any number of poets.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/5743874653790600948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/5743874653790600948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255439608881#c5743874653790600948' title=''/><author><name>Name: Matthew Guenette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06901074740673802260</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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-188382328"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6224401106152116738</id><published>2009-10-13T00:42:00.240-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T00:42:00.240-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A nitpick, but ... Johnston&amp;#39;s  Sources is not ...</title><summary type='text'>A nitpick, but ... Johnston&amp;#39;s  &lt;i&gt;Sources&lt;/i&gt; is not his &amp;quot;most recent book . . . .&amp;quot;   More precisely, it&amp;#39;s his most recent book of poems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A book of essays by Johnston, called &lt;i&gt;Creaturely&lt;/i&gt; was published in August or September of this year by Turtle Point Press.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/6224401106152116738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/6224401106152116738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255408920240#c6224401106152116738' 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/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5097834461664090015</id><published>2009-10-13T00:38:33.334-04:00</published><updated>2009-10-13T00:38:33.334-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Being uncomfortable with a poem because of its ont...</title><summary type='text'>Being uncomfortable with a poem because of its ontology makes you sound like quite the Quietist critic indeed.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/5097834461664090015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8026769449882597737/comments/default/5097834461664090015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html?showComment=1255408713334#c5097834461664090015' title=''/><author><name>Nothing</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04999559315666633601</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IgVjjlRrF2A/Skbcfihs6cI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IT8XHbBBIsQ/S220/William_Butler_Yeats.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/10/ive-always-suspected-that-devin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8026769449882597737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8026769449882597737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-522068005"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 13, 2009"/></entry></feed>