<?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.post113794161972516260..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/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113920191683500575</id><published>2006-02-05T23:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T23:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you so much for the association with Rezniko...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you so much for the association with Reznikoff, Kirby.  He is always in my mind.&lt;BR/&gt;Mairead</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113920191683500575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113920191683500575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1139201880000#c113920191683500575' title=''/><author><name>mairead</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15053828520847829935</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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1620054078"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113807435681327837</id><published>2006-01-23T22:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T22:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Perceptions are only judgments when they don’t ref...</title><summary type='text'>Perceptions are only judgments when they don’t reference the self; in other words, never.   Not in ‘Testimony,’ either.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113807435681327837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113807435681327837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1138074300000#c113807435681327837' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113806713715022134</id><published>2006-01-23T20:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T20:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I was thinking about Kant&#39;s statement that every a...</title><summary type='text'>I was thinking about Kant&#39;s statement that every act of perception is a judgment.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But obviously the poems in Testimony 1885-1915 are about judgment.  They were the raw facts on which actual cases were based.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113806713715022134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113806713715022134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1138067100000#c113806713715022134' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' 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href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1138051140000#c113805116136946836' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113805081020179176</id><published>2006-01-23T16:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T16:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There are two books of Testimony I think .The one ...</title><summary type='text'>There are two books of Testimony I think .&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The one I have at home is mostly from law extracts around the 1880-1900 period.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He deliberately changed the places, the names, and left out a lot of details that would allow us to look up the cases.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I find this frustrating, but then I realized later that in all the shorter pieces too there is a similar removal of context so </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113805081020179176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113805081020179176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1138050780000#c113805081020179176' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113804745007115528</id><published>2006-01-23T15:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T15:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirbs, Testimony (&amp; Holocaust which is sort of the...</title><summary type='text'>Kirbs, Testimony (&amp; Holocaust which is sort of the same poem) is my favorite Reznikoff, and I surmise that he would love to know that you &#39;can&#39;t figure out the original scenario enough to decide&#39; or &#39;judge.&#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113804745007115528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113804745007115528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1138047420000#c113804745007115528' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113803864273198655</id><published>2006-01-23T12:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T12:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Critics seem to remain close to the notion of a ha...</title><summary type='text'>Critics seem to remain close to the notion of a haiku as background for Reznikoff but what makes the poems more interesting tha tpoetry that captures the essence of amoment or of a season is the way in which they present situations that cannot be judged very easily -- the testimony for instance presents cases in which we can&#39;t figure out the original scenario enough to decide, the shorter poems </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113803864273198655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113803864273198655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1138038600000#c113803864273198655' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113795245732220465</id><published>2006-01-22T12:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-22T12:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Doesn&#39;t mention that Zukofsky would take long walk...</title><summary type='text'>Doesn&#39;t mention that Zukofsky would take long walks too and was put up to writing about Objectivism in Poetry Chicago, so the contrast between his and Reznikoff&#39;s resistance to theory is exaggerated. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But at least the metaphorical comparison between Objectivism and Confessionalism did not have links to items in the home design advertising supplement, or to a computer boxing game where </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113795245732220465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113794161972516260/comments/default/113795245732220465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html?showComment=1137952440000#c113795245732220465' 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/2006/01/nice-review-of-poems-of-charles.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113794161972516260' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113794161972516260' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 22, 2006"/></entry></feed>