<?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.post112964906882605465..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/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.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>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-818816914677777952</id><published>2008-05-29T13:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-29T13:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>well, better late than never...I grew up on this r...</title><summary type='text'>well, better late than never...I grew up on this ranch.  Drummy teaching and telling in his quiet and forceful way.  The places and people in his work could not be more real than a portrait could capture.  While Drummy&#39;s light fades now, it still casts a shadow on the men that call themselves &quot;Cowboy Poets&quot; without living the life.  Drummy turns 70 this week and should be celebrated.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/818816914677777952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/818816914677777952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1212082200000#c818816914677777952' title=''/><author><name>Kevin Cel Mare</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10202631074854373003</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1115925890"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113020780378997378</id><published>2005-10-24T22:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-24T22:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>yes, mac h. was not a fan; in fact i don&#39;t remembe...</title><summary type='text'>yes, mac h. was not a fan; in fact i don&#39;t remember olson talking ALL that much about politics of the 30&#39;s OR archaeology in a &quot;formal&quot; sense while at buffalo and suspect mac was just denigrating - i would say out of some sort of resentment, except that shreela ray spoke highly of mac h. and that&#39;s enough.  ...thank you for your scholarly response; it was bugging me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113020780378997378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113020780378997378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1130207760000#c113020780378997378' title=''/><author><name>alvarodecampos2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18441777515788124111</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-143247388"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113011971029178435</id><published>2005-10-23T22:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-23T22:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I meant Mac Hammond was NOT much of a fan of Olson...</title><summary type='text'>I meant Mac Hammond was NOT much of a fan of Olson, which somehow came out &quot;Mac was perfectly a fan of Olson&quot;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113011971029178435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113011971029178435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1130119680000#c113011971029178435' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113011961862142125</id><published>2005-10-23T22:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-23T22:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The D. Hadley reference is in Olson&#39;s non-Maximus ...</title><summary type='text'>The D. Hadley reference is in Olson&#39;s non-Maximus poem &quot;West&quot; from the mid-60s.  It&#39;s a poem in 7 or 8 parts, and I believe one of the parts is simply the insertion of one or two Hadley poems.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I took a creative writing course from Mac Hammond at SUNY/Buffalo.  Mac was perfectly a fan of Olson but thought he was referenced in the Maximus Poems, because there is a mention of &quot;mighty Mac </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113011961862142125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113011961862142125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1130119560000#c113011961862142125' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008634844963456</id><published>2005-10-23T12:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-23T12:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>sorry, HADLEY, not &quot;hammon&quot; must have been thinkin...</title><summary type='text'>sorry, HADLEY, not &quot;hammon&quot; must have been thinking too of mac hammond (The Horse Opera).  but there IS an allusion to Drummond Hadly somewhere in Olson, which pre-dates the Snyder mention.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113008634844963456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113008634844963456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1130086320000#c113008634844963456' title=''/><author><name>alvarodecampos2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18441777515788124111</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-143247388"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113008320031285868</id><published>2005-10-23T12:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-23T12:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>olson mentions hammon somewhere but it isn&#39;t noted...</title><summary type='text'>olson mentions hammon somewhere but it isn&#39;t noted by butterick so perhaps it is not in maximus...anyone know where?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113008320031285868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/113008320031285868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1130083200000#c113008320031285868' title=''/><author><name>alvarodecampos2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18441777515788124111</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-143247388"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112992724007160330</id><published>2005-10-21T16:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-21T16:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You know it is simply horrifying that this appalli...</title><summary type='text'>You know it is simply horrifying that this appalling prose which references really only what is insufficiently imagined:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Stein: &quot;there is an act of projection in which a discharge of a libido (Jung&#39;s term for psychic energy) occurs and at the same time the projection of a &#39;content.&#39; In Jung, the content of the projection is determined by the archetypical configuration guiding the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112992724007160330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112992724007160330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129927200000#c112992724007160330' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112991381167942735</id><published>2005-10-21T12:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-21T12:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For the dramatic monolog there&#39;s that fork in the ...</title><summary type='text'>For the dramatic monolog there&#39;s that fork in the path noted at the end of Towards Prose in The New Sentence between liking speech (Olson) and hating it (Grenier).  Liking speech gets you all the baggage of traditional forms including the fruit inside the bags, most notably the irony which in Browning is both traditionally extracted and an infinite revelation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Olson&#39;s masks and Pound&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112991381167942735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112991381167942735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129913760000#c112991381167942735' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112987412629041434</id><published>2005-10-21T01:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-21T01:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Funny, all these years Drum Hadley was a name in t...</title><summary type='text'>Funny, all these years Drum Hadley was a name in that Snyder poem, &quot;How to Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert Recipe for Locke &amp; Drum.&quot; An old friend. Is context anything? I miss those days. These too, soon enough: &quot;to set aside another good ten minutes / Dish it up and eat it with a spoon, sitting on a poncho in the dark.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112987412629041434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112987412629041434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129874100000#c112987412629041434' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112986715213095233</id><published>2005-10-20T23:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T23:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And finally...I have a tendiness towards tangents ...</title><summary type='text'>And finally...I have a tendiness towards tangents you know...before I leave in ten minutes to brave the military buildup of Beirut today as today they release the &quot;findings&quot; of the report, fear backlashes, etc ad tedium...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My advice to Ron:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You order many, many books and have become a place where famous writers (Calvinists) promote Corso (long dead)...why not buy this book!  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986715213095233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986715213095233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129867140000#c112986715213095233' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112986511207615456</id><published>2005-10-20T23:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T23:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why!  Lon, I&#39;d not have become a poet had it not b...</title><summary type='text'>Why!  Lon, I&#39;d not have become a poet had it not been for the Bisbee (Alice Notley born there by God!) Rennaissance.  The ethos of that time in our history, the influx of starving bohemians cast against the shadowy stare of those miners (not to mention the Serenity Prayer that Ron might be familiar with I believe)!  Times of Peyote and hippyskirts!  August Schaeffer dancing on Subway in her </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986511207615456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986511207615456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129865100000#c112986511207615456' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112986382068976720</id><published>2005-10-20T23:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T23:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And it would be a damn shame if someone missed the...</title><summary type='text'>And it would be a damn shame if someone missed the connotation of fleeing Mount St. Helens in that interview because they didn&#39;t like the opinion of others.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That is what is wrong with Schools of Anything.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Conscientious observers of that might search on Orson Welles and Dick Bakken.  You&#39;ll find it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986382068976720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986382068976720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129863780000#c112986382068976720' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112986249392060631</id><published>2005-10-20T22:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T22:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And this time Lon, I&#39;m afraid I can&#39;t resist altho...</title><summary type='text'>And this time Lon, I&#39;m afraid I can&#39;t resist although I&#39;ve resisted Sillimania for quite some time (before you in fact!)..this time it is 5:45 am GMT + 3 and my judgement after Znet is a bit askew!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ode to the Artists&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All alone at last in a city&lt;BR/&gt;of nude people, you painted&lt;BR/&gt;cubist buttocks from your keyhole perch.&lt;BR/&gt;No one knew what you were up to&lt;BR/&gt;in Lillian&#39;s old </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986249392060631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986249392060631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129862460000#c112986249392060631' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112986193409951969</id><published>2005-10-20T22:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T22:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yea we are a lost people down there.  Drum as we c...</title><summary type='text'>Yea we are a lost people down there.  Drum as we call him (more particularly my sister who would say Hi Drum! at the bank perhaps) relates that Drum is not the recluse, the escapee from the Newyorklanguagepoetswestolsonians that might be suggested via this short blurb.  He has money, lots of it and literally no need to be liked.  That he was there throughout the days of Cochise Fine Arts (the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986193409951969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112986193409951969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129861920000#c112986193409951969' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112984506307666651</id><published>2005-10-20T17:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T17:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&#39;My old Daddy used to say&#39; is a very common expres...</title><summary type='text'>&#39;My old Daddy used to say&#39; is a very common expression in the south. i read it as idiom...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112984506307666651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112984506307666651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129845060000#c112984506307666651' 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='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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112984255352424424</id><published>2005-10-20T17:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T17:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Please don&#39;t forget Drum&#39;s wonderful book Strands ...</title><summary type='text'>Please don&#39;t forget Drum&#39;s wonderful book Strands of Rawhide and other titles.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks,&lt;BR/&gt;Tom</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112984255352424424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112984255352424424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129842540000#c112984255352424424' title=''/><author><name>Tom Marshall</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16531001605370795898</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2024413361"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112983379049409087</id><published>2005-10-20T14:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T14:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,There was a lot of positive discussion rega...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There was a lot of positive discussion regarding the Unibomber during the late 1990s.  This was in anarchist journals such as Journal of Desire Armed.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I confess I dropped all my subscriptions when they started to argue that the Unibomber not only had a point but that the rest of us should follow suit.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think people watch too much TV now.  If they go back to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112983379049409087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112983379049409087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129833780000#c112983379049409087' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112982502130338038</id><published>2005-10-20T12:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T12:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nah, you never got to Bisbee and so missed a lot.</title><summary type='text'>Nah, you never got to Bisbee and so missed a lot.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112982502130338038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112982502130338038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129825020000#c112982502130338038' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112982107739364338</id><published>2005-10-20T11:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T11:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, the rural eco-consciousness of the 1960&#39;s is...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, the rural eco-consciousness of the 1960&#39;s is definitelyl dead.  Drummond Hadley reads like a nostalgic peek at the past (Coyote&#39;s Journal).  You don&#39;t hear about communal farms or food conspiracies or &quot;getting back to the earth&quot; anymore.  All we hear is outsourcing, software solutions and building multi-cultural coalitions.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s all gone.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hadley&#39;s work reminds me of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112982107739364338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112982107739364338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129821060000#c112982107739364338' 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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112980950209355611</id><published>2005-10-20T07:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T07:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am wondering if you have taken time to read Davi...</title><summary type='text'>I am wondering if you have taken time to read David Lee&#39;s rural narrative series (Driving &amp; Drinking, The Porcine Canticles, My Town, etc) or his emergent book, So Quietly the Earth.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As far as writing &#39;The West&#39; goes, it is among the best out there.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112980950209355611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112980950209355611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129809480000#c112980950209355611' title=''/><author><name>Justin Evans</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12161484350184865575</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1408752233"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112979425403842094</id><published>2005-10-20T03:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-20T03:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So true, in love, marrage or any other interactive...</title><summary type='text'>So true, in love, marrage or any other interactive relationship. I&#39;d be honored if you&#39;d check out my new poetry blog. http://naked-superstar-sapphire-ninja.blogspot.com/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112979425403842094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112964906882605465/comments/default/112979425403842094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html?showComment=1129794240000#c112979425403842094' title=''/><author><name>Mrs. Universe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06029493890209616704</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/2005/10/easily-best-expression-of-what-i.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112964906882605465' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112964906882605465' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1317575051"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2005"/></entry></feed>