<?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.post113019178158113122..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/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>52</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113063115890748201</id><published>2005-10-29T20:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-29T20:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Congratulations, Ron--well deserved.  Chris Murray...</title><summary type='text'>Congratulations, Ron--well deserved.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Chris Murray</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113063115890748201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113063115890748201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130631120000#c113063115890748201' title=''/><author><name>chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01592499983757806803</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1042713148"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113062227864212696</id><published>2005-10-29T17:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-29T17:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Arlee, Sounds like a great issue of Sulphur which ...</title><summary type='text'>Arlee, Sounds like a great issue of Sulphur which came out before I subscribed, and I would offer to buy it off you assuming the spit would dry in the mail, but the infections reference scares me off.  It may be that you&#39;re allergic to caveat lector; make sure it&#39;s cooked first. I&#39;ll look for that issue, though. Take care.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113062227864212696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113062227864212696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130622240000#c113062227864212696' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113060905655126257</id><published>2005-10-29T14:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-29T14:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks Mr. Keenan.I&#39;m glad I was straightened out ...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks Mr. Keenan.I&#39;m glad I was straightened out about Jerome McGann so eloquently. I can only return the favor with my attempt at similar eloquence. I think I&#39;ll call this piece:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot; JEROME MCGANN IS AN IDIOT; or when called, always ask first: &quot;What are those golden builders doing&quot;?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;epigraph:&quot;What remains is absence, a void approaching terror but also quietude, the lives, the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113060905655126257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113060905655126257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130609040000#c113060905655126257' 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/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-551028600"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113055666712201884</id><published>2005-10-28T23:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T23:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,I don&#39;t see why anyone would read poetry pri...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t see why anyone would read poetry primarily to see their political beliefs mirrored; any kind of political stance would be best mirrored in theory or journalism. On the other hand, if you do like/care about poetry, and you do have some kind of &quot;politics&quot; that you care about, then it makes sense that the two spheres of your life won&#39;t be totally separate. I, for one, like </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113055666712201884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113055666712201884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130556660000#c113055666712201884' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113054905064401764</id><published>2005-10-28T21:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T21:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy, my demons really are everywhere, legion if y...</title><summary type='text'>Andy, my demons really are everywhere, legion if you will.  But you aren&#39;t one of them.  Ron isn&#39;t one of them.  Curtis, no.  Joe Green, nope.  I count no one here as a demon.  Although I sometimes get demonic, it&#39;s just because Halloween is just around the corner.  How do you speak to a crazy person?  Now and then you speak in their language, and they feel comforted, I suppose.  That&#39;s why I go </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113054905064401764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113054905064401764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130549040000#c113054905064401764' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113053975837942680</id><published>2005-10-28T18:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T18:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ok, Joe; I&#39;ve posted the Palmer/Merwin bit to the ...</title><summary type='text'>ok, Joe; I&#39;ve posted the Palmer/Merwin bit to the comments field on the new site.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113053975837942680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113053975837942680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130539740000#c113053975837942680' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113053692014035759</id><published>2005-10-28T18:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T18:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, but has Curtis suffered as I have?</title><summary type='text'>Yes, but has Curtis suffered as I have?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113053692014035759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113053692014035759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130536920000#c113053692014035759' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113053245220276775</id><published>2005-10-28T16:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T16:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Excatly my sentiments and expressed better than I ...</title><summary type='text'>Excatly my sentiments and expressed better than I could.&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ha, I thought it was you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113053245220276775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113053245220276775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130532420000#c113053245220276775' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051795235610111</id><published>2005-10-28T12:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also damn accurate.</title><summary type='text'>Also damn accurate.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051795235610111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051795235610111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130517900000#c113051795235610111' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051788822331226</id><published>2005-10-28T12:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I most admire poets who have an individual vision...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I most admire poets who have an individual vision that is so powerful, which comes out of their own experience and eccentric position, which &quot;takes over their lives&quot; as it were--they&#39;re powerless to do otherwise, etc. They don&#39;t &quot;need&quot; an audience, perhaps don&#39;t even want one. The audience is superfluous to them. Which is what allows them to be unique. That uniqueness may lead to nothing-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051788822331226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051788822331226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130517840000#c113051788822331226' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051689402403263</id><published>2005-10-28T12:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lon, Thanks for doing that. I&#39;ll have the Palmer l...</title><summary type='text'>Lon, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for doing that. I&#39;ll have the Palmer later today. There must be some way that various people can post to the main page. But I&#39;m pretty ignorant about the workings of weblogs.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Andy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051689402403263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051689402403263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130516880000#c113051689402403263' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051674942226652</id><published>2005-10-28T12:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m uncomfortable with knee-jerk reactions against...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m uncomfortable with knee-jerk reactions against the notion of &quot;close readings.&quot; There&#39;s a lot to be said for it when it&#39;s not limited by association with the kind of work the idea came up in relation to in the first place. Ooh, that&#39;s bad syntax. &lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s thrilling to read a poem of Rae Armantrout&#39;s and carefully, exhaustively examine all the sonic, formal, and conceptual links between </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051674942226652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051674942226652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130516700000#c113051674942226652' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051647395267203</id><published>2005-10-28T12:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>http://northofthevortex.blogspot.com/&quot;I&#39;ll post to...</title><summary type='text'>http://northofthevortex.blogspot.com/&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I&#39;ll post to it, starting with my Merwin/Palmer comparison.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ok, there it is. Post the individual Palmer poem contrasted with the Merwin already discussed?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051647395267203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051647395267203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130516460000#c113051647395267203' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051639144038844</id><published>2005-10-28T12:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:19:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051639144038844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051639144038844'/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051586709933586</id><published>2005-10-28T12:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T12:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;But poor Wilde, dragged by flailing association i...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;But poor Wilde, dragged by flailing association into this sorry affair! Bad scholarship there, m&#39;boy. Start over. Do try. Begin again.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wilde is used to it.  That&#39;s the reason for his &quot;horrible eyes.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Andy,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am creating a blog to accomplish all of this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Actually, a good group weblog would be one consisting of such close readings, where the point of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051586709933586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051586709933586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130515860000#c113051586709933586' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051357242961916</id><published>2005-10-28T11:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T11:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Congratulations, and glad your book wasn&#39;t include...</title><summary type='text'>Congratulations, and glad your book wasn&#39;t included in the ones &quot;stacked together and made into a bundle of shingles&quot;. Alas, the fate of far too many books.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051357242961916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051357242961916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130513520000#c113051357242961916' title=''/><author><name>Patry Francis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01352168828858437085</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1310562406"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051350410267344</id><published>2005-10-28T11:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T11:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, what a great blog thread!  Everyone&#39;s making ...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, what a great blog thread!  Everyone&#39;s making terrific points, relevant and tangential at the same time.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Michael Palmer comes out of the field of philosophy, in specific the British Logical Positivists and Wittgenstein.  He wanted to make artifacts out of the conundrums of perception and how language mediates between rationality and the unknowable (or inexpressible).  Always filled</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051350410267344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051350410267344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130513460000#c113051350410267344' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113051234407749781</id><published>2005-10-28T11:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T11:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lon, even a casual reading would note that I left ...</title><summary type='text'>Lon, even a casual reading would note that I left Empson with the decapitated head, still singing. No program there: just the picture of his downturned waiterly moustache mourning over the tray. The rest of the corpse, slack or bloated, but with its automatically jerking knee intact, you may invite to whatever reading or seance you choose. But poor Wilde, dragged by flailing association into this</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051234407749781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113051234407749781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130512320000#c113051234407749781' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113050907744105179</id><published>2005-10-28T10:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T10:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The problem of identity/ identity politics which C...</title><summary type='text'>The problem of identity/ identity politics which Curtis outlined as having made him give up in the 70s any sense that a content could be anything other than corrupt -- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This sense of identity comes out of the paranoid Marxism which was the real legacy of the 60s.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re either part of the solution or you&#39;re part of the problem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That crazy binary thinking that divided </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113050907744105179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113050907744105179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130509020000#c113050907744105179' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113050066547386989</id><published>2005-10-28T07:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T07:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A close reading of my remark on close reading show...</title><summary type='text'>A close reading of my remark on close reading shows that Bill Empson was NOT invited.  There you go -- only that.  It&#39;s as if this and that phrase triggers automatic uncomprehension.  A deprogrammer is needed.  I&#39;ll try to contact Wilde with the Ouija board and see if he knows anybody.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113050066547386989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113050066547386989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130500620000#c113050066547386989' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113047655168254316</id><published>2005-10-28T01:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-28T01:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirk, closest I got to that poetics/pol reference ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirk, closest I got to that poetics/pol reference was some guy named Russell of &#39;Language&#39; (63) &quot;to be bored means one cannot produce the text, play it, release it, make it go.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Produce, release, deFrost the glacier.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113047655168254316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113047655168254316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130476500000#c113047655168254316' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113047126925223527</id><published>2005-10-27T23:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-27T23:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Enter the proverbial close reading, carried by &quot;Bi...</title><summary type='text'>Enter the proverbial close reading, carried by &quot;Bill&quot; Empson on a tray. The eyes open, the head speaks: &quot;Up high where the cold / Eternal only endures / Because you surpass it / All of you O glaciers...&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m also tired of theory-bashing, avant-bashing, SoQ-bashing, post-post-bashing, all the bash-bash-bashing. The eternity of glaciers.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Generalizations, in any case. We&#39;ve had </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113047126925223527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113047126925223527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130471220000#c113047126925223527' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113046777367139223</id><published>2005-10-27T22:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-27T22:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, I must awa to get Kirby&#39;s book from the libr...</title><summary type='text'>Well, I must awa to get Kirby&#39;s book from the library but yes you are right.  What never happens here is close attention to the poem without first placing the poet in this or that ideological postion in the most superficial way.  Curtis replied to the Merwin poem in the first instance only with generalities. It was obvious he wasn&#39;t giving it a chance -- wanting to know who those ghosts were and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113046777367139223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113046777367139223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130467740000#c113046777367139223' 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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113046450002216632</id><published>2005-10-27T21:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-27T21:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That, by the way, was a response to earlier posts,...</title><summary type='text'>That, by the way, was a response to earlier posts, and not your last one, which I quite liked.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113046450002216632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113046450002216632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130464500000#c113046450002216632' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113046435736464008</id><published>2005-10-27T21:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-10-27T21:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lon,Here&#39;s a possible explanation for the recurrin...</title><summary type='text'>Lon,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here&#39;s a possible explanation for the recurring assumptions about where your sympathies lie (I&#39;m sure it&#39;s not the only one, and not sure it&#39;s correct anyway):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In many of your posts you attack others&#39; criticisms of poems &amp; poets by saying they are &quot;blind to what is there,&quot; and you accuse the critic of being motivated by group affiliation or inherited critical approaches. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113046435736464008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113019178158113122/comments/default/113046435736464008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html?showComment=1130464320000#c113046435736464008' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/i-have-just-received-word-that-under.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113019178158113122' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113019178158113122' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2005"/></entry></feed>