<?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.post111872137422233003..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/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111940294077680390</id><published>2005-06-21T21:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-21T21:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Three comments have been deleted at the request of...</title><summary type='text'>Three comments have been deleted at the request of their author.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111940294077680390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111940294077680390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1119402900000#c111940294077680390' 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='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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111902749372205608</id><published>2005-06-17T12:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-17T12:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,I work beneath the digital services dept, alwa...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I work beneath the digital services dept, always a-growing heavier.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp; I am the narrator of Moby Dick, as written by the author of Don &quot;Ameche&quot; Quixote.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111902749372205608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111902749372205608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1119027480000#c111902749372205608' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111902120109169057</id><published>2005-06-17T11:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-17T11:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One of the difficulties I have with much of the th...</title><summary type='text'>One of the difficulties I have with much of the theoretical writing about poetry is that very much of it is heavily weighted with specialized terminology and abstract rhetorical language, and ultimately becomes so generalized and vague that it doesn&#39;t communicate very much of information or ideas, except perhaps to other people who already have knowledge of the concepts and material. Of course in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111902120109169057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111902120109169057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1119021180000#c111902120109169057' title=''/><author><name>Lyle Daggett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1880267297"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 17, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111896504442829358</id><published>2005-06-16T19:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T19:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111896504442829358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111896504442829358'/><author><name>Laura Carter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16936549737323400532</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-843607452"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111895264328619989</id><published>2005-06-16T16:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T16:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fair points, Laura.  Also, when you get on the lit...</title><summary type='text'>Fair points, Laura.  Also, when you get on the lit crit side, you realiize that contemporary  American poetry is just one small subfield competing with many other fields, and that people don&#39;t really read profoundly beyond their subfields after a certain point.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111895264328619989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111895264328619989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1118952600000#c111895264328619989' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1218785319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111895221483305704</id><published>2005-06-16T16:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T16:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Henry,Does sub sub librarian mean that you work be...</title><summary type='text'>Henry,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Does sub sub librarian mean that you work beneath the periodicals department? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111895221483305704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111895221483305704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1118952180000#c111895221483305704' 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='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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111895052424186405</id><published>2005-06-16T15:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T15:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111895052424186405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111895052424186405'/><author><name>Laura Carter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16936549737323400532</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-843607452"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111894990322234050</id><published>2005-06-16T15:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T15:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111894990322234050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111894990322234050'/><author><name>Laura Carter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16936549737323400532</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-843607452"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111893929131306711</id><published>2005-06-16T12:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T12:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not a professional librarian, Ron.  Just a sub...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not a professional librarian, Ron.  Just a sub-sub-librarian.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Obviously, this minor but pivotal though marginal fact transmogrifies the whole literary history of the last 50 yrs or so.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111893929131306711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111893929131306711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1118939280000#c111893929131306711' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04783460308217456577</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417109118"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111893581408012672</id><published>2005-06-16T11:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T11:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You raise an interesting question.I think the sepa...</title><summary type='text'>You raise an interesting question.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think the separation of church and state in English departments is quite traditional.  Prior to WWII, there were no &quot;creative writing&quot; departments per se.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;At Iowa, Paul Engle started a program as a sphere inside the English Department, but separate, devoted to the study of the practice of writing, as distinct from the study of literature as</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111893581408012672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111893581408012672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1118935800000#c111893581408012672' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111893420211949552</id><published>2005-06-16T11:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-16T11:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s another question, Ron.  What of the separat...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s another question, Ron.  What of the separation between Creative Writing and Literary Criticism in the English department?  It seems to me that in many cases there has been more openness on the Criticism side to look at Ginsberg, Creeley, Niedecker, or even Silliman than there has been on the &quot;Creative Writing&quot; side, where students have been encouraged to emulate Norman Dubie or whoever the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111893420211949552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111872137422233003/comments/default/111893420211949552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html?showComment=1118934180000#c111893420211949552' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898</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/2005/06/megan-swihart-asked-couple-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111872137422233003' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111872137422233003' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1218785319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2005"/></entry></feed>