<?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.post111367935765826757..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/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111399842276477831</id><published>2005-04-20T08:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-20T08:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, what an interesting post. I just happened to ...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, what an interesting post. I just happened to be reading George Bradley&#39;s review of &quot;The New Sentence&quot; over at EPC and this has interesting &#39;parallels&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It happen I&#39;m trying to explore similar concerns, with considerably less insight, on my blog for 18April05. Check that day for access to links to Barrett Watten&#39;s review of &quot;The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde&quot; and Jody </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111399842276477831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111399842276477831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113998400000#c111399842276477831' title=''/><author><name>Arlee Christian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08200416510821299942</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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-551028600"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111395882791085740</id><published>2005-04-19T21:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T21:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael:You raise an interesting question about th...</title><summary type='text'>Michael:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You raise an interesting question about the matriculation of talent.  &quot;Why would a truly gifted young person write poetry as opposed to making movies, video games, comic books or popular music?&quot;  --It&#39;s a question I used to ponder back when I was an undergraduate.  In my case, I was expected by my parents to enter either the school of engineering, architecture or medicine.  But </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111395882791085740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111395882791085740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113958800000#c111395882791085740' 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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111395339211544923</id><published>2005-04-19T19:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T19:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>anonymous,I would not argue with your last sentenc...</title><summary type='text'>anonymous,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would not argue with your last sentence. When it comes to any form of art, just because you want to is always the best reason.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111395339211544923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111395339211544923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113953340000#c111395339211544923' title=''/><author><name>Michael Harold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11165160971360124629</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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111393533549644914</id><published>2005-04-19T14:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T14:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&#39;Why would a truly gifted young person write poetr...</title><summary type='text'>&#39;Why would a truly gifted young person write poetry as opposed to making movies, video games, comic books or popular music?&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What of: some like poetry, language, the written word?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Any good poets stay in poetry for the thrill of a little crowd? An invigorating academic career? Dead set on a deathless sonnet, maybe?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Times and technologies will change and some of every </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111393533549644914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111393533549644914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113935280000#c111393533549644914' 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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111393359735761639</id><published>2005-04-19T13:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T13:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The views represented in recent posts are some of ...</title><summary type='text'>The views represented in recent posts are some of the most interesting I have ever read on this or any other Internet forum. What makes them interesting is their context -- a context that combines references to politics, economics and language as they relate to two of the oldest artifacts of cultural production: poetry and visual art.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There are certain methods of social analysis that are</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111393359735761639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111393359735761639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113933540000#c111393359735761639' title=''/><author><name>Michael Harold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11165160971360124629</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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392556774126477</id><published>2005-04-19T11:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T11:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The program seems to be this:Pound said &quot;Make it n...</title><summary type='text'>The program seems to be this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pound said &quot;Make it new.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Post-Modernist dogma says that socio-economic change is historically inevitable, and that what we call the &quot;avant-garde&quot; is a harbinger of &quot;the new&quot; in the political sense, as well as the aesthetic.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s a handy way of enfranchising anyone in the so-called Modernist period who placed experimentation at the top </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392556774126477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392556774126477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113925560000#c111392556774126477' 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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392334163477716</id><published>2005-04-19T11:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T11:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My apologies to bill bissett.  I should have tried...</title><summary type='text'>My apologies to bill bissett.  I should have tried using the blockquote tags rather than spacing to get his pome to lineup right.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392334163477716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392334163477716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113923340000#c111392334163477716' title=''/><author><name>Steve Nomansland</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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392323917645347</id><published>2005-04-19T11:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T11:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This made me think of one of my favorite poemstell...</title><summary type='text'>This made me think of one of my favorite poems&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;tell me what attackd yu&lt;/I&gt; by bill bissett:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;    th green broom&lt;BR/&gt;    i criticizd him&lt;BR/&gt;    most peopul have been led to believe&lt;BR/&gt;by th emergd middul class, that art&lt;BR/&gt;and politikal inolvment greet each othr&lt;BR/&gt;only across sum imponderabul chasm,&lt;BR/&gt;    th middul class sz yeah its a good pome&lt;BR/&gt;    but what use is it, th </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392323917645347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392323917645347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113923220000#c111392323917645347' title=''/><author><name>Steve Nomansland</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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111392236192902316</id><published>2005-04-19T10:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T10:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Avant-garde and SoQ, like many systems of classifi...</title><summary type='text'>Avant-garde and SoQ, like many systems of classification, seem to me to serve at the moment of recognition to express what is recognized (what has transpired)not, as I think younger poets might confuse, to show sides of an argument one might take. The vital organism that supercedes or is cornerstone for new poetries is certainly functioning, most likely in a form that was not yet possible and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392236192902316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111392236192902316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113922320000#c111392236192902316' 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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111391605876854895</id><published>2005-04-19T09:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-04-19T09:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, thanks. This is another terrific retrospectiv...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, thanks. This is another terrific retrospective context piece. It&#39;s not a criticism nor an argument, but I&#39;m curious about something that&#39;s a little beside the point of your piece. You write: &quot;... one should not look...at the avant-garde as furthering a specific or over-arching argument....&quot; My sense is that the avant-garde, if you could reduce its complex responses and formal approaches </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111391605876854895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111367935765826757/comments/default/111391605876854895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/04/august-916-1999.html?showComment=1113916020000#c111391605876854895' title=''/><author><name>D. Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13074108273495335292</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/2005/04/august-916-1999.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111367935765826757' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111367935765826757' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-495894958"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2005"/></entry></feed>