<?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.post113896731752239236..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/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/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>54</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114006119965076069</id><published>2006-02-15T22:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T22:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Igor:I wish we weren&#39;t separated by 10,000 miles a...</title><summary type='text'>Igor:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wish we weren&#39;t separated by 10,000 miles and uncommon languages.  I&#39;d like to know what it feels like to read a poem in Russian by Mayakovsky.  Or Pasternak, or Akhamatova, for that matter.  But I can&#39;t.  These may be unbridgeable gaps.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But provinciality has its good flipside.  Why should we all be alike.  The &quot;global&quot; hegemony everyone keeps hinting at--I don&#39;t buy </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/114006119965076069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/114006119965076069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1140061140000#c114006119965076069' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113990825419815220</id><published>2006-02-14T04:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T04:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello, everybody, I think you do need to hear from...</title><summary type='text'>Hello, everybody, I think you do need to hear from a Russian poet, for a change:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis - if you don&#39;t want to be convinced, nothing will change yr mind. &lt;BR/&gt;Still, you have to agree there are plenty of arguments presented here by others to show that Mayakovsky is one of the most INFLUENCIAL poets of the 20th century poetry, and evidently, as I read here, he is still influencial with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113990825419815220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113990825419815220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139908200000#c113990825419815220' title=''/><author><name>Igor Satanovsky</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14195267471317352036</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1467265459"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113954426623174297</id><published>2006-02-09T23:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T23:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In my view, there should be riots in Michigan, Ohi...</title><summary type='text'>In my view, there should be riots in Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Indiana where the Big Three Automakers are busy laying off thousands, cutting pensions, and slashing health care, while the executives are raking in millions upon millions in pay, options, bonuses and perks.  What are people thinking?  The white middle-class is being driven into suburban ghettos.  The standard of living in America is</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113954426623174297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113954426623174297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139544240000#c113954426623174297' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113953372461214013</id><published>2006-02-09T20:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T20:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi folks,I doubt this will particularly resolve th...</title><summary type='text'>Hi folks,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I doubt this will particularly resolve this debate between johannes and curtis, but I&#39;ll give my own sense as to why I read Mayakovsky and consider him a significant source for my work.  In many ways I can understand thinking Mayakovsky is a bad writer.  He&#39;s certainly bad if what one values in poetry is modernist compression--thinking here of Pound or Eliot&#39;s arguments for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113953372461214013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113953372461214013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139533680000#c113953372461214013' title=''/><author><name>Brent Cunningham</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16244764572301596523</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-622900660"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113942802019280222</id><published>2006-02-08T14:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-08T14:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ok.</title><summary type='text'>Ok.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113942802019280222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113942802019280222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139428020000#c113942802019280222' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113942798731685662</id><published>2006-02-08T14:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-08T14:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, that sandwich wine combo sounds nice.  I t...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, that sandwich wine combo sounds nice.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Mayakovsky sounds a lot more volcanic in French.  But I think it was Aragon or someone like that who had translated the poem I had read.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Richard Howard really couldn&#39;t make a poem sound volcanic if he had until the sun burned out.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he turns everything into the same gray mush of Victorian sentiment with actual </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113942798731685662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113942798731685662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139427960000#c113942798731685662' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113934882781606189</id><published>2006-02-07T16:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T16:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Touche, Kirby.  I&#39;m having a delicate French Chard...</title><summary type='text'>Touche, Kirby.  I&#39;m having a delicate French Chardonnay and a nice ham and cheese sandwich.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not reading anything because my cat Mocha is sick and I have to get to the post office by 4:00.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113934882781606189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113934882781606189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139348820000#c113934882781606189' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113933279089354283</id><published>2006-02-07T12:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T12:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I think I dismiss a lot of American litera...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I think I dismiss a lot of American literature because I&#39;m interested in a certain kind of paradoxical wit that isn&#39;t very prevalent here.  Perhaps the extreme example would be Alfred Jarry.  I like that kind of pataphysical area.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Outside of Corso, Codrescu, Brautigan, Equi and a few others I don&#39;t see it a lot in our literature so I tend to look elswhere.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t think </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113933279089354283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113933279089354283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139332740000#c113933279089354283' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113932378945651706</id><published>2006-02-07T09:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T09:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Swedeforgive me for giving the wrong infobut the t...</title><summary type='text'>Swede&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;forgive me for giving the wrong info&lt;BR/&gt;but the truth is I got a bit sloppy&lt;BR/&gt;after seeing your headshot &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was shocked to see it resembled&lt;BR/&gt;a balding root plant&lt;BR/&gt;looking freshly plucked from Oslo&lt;BR/&gt;Stockholm or Helsinki.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the stare of a viking &lt;BR/&gt;turnip setting the world to rights&lt;BR/&gt;with only a dog pal called Ishmael.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lets hear the audio&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113932378945651706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113932378945651706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139323740000#c113932378945651706' title=''/><author><name>IRISH POETS</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1154523763"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113925494300953320</id><published>2006-02-06T14:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T14:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Johannes,I&#39;m not a &quot;friend of Ron&quot; in the sense yo...</title><summary type='text'>Johannes,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not a &quot;friend of Ron&quot; in the sense you mean it here.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Friendship means never having to agree about literature (to paraphrase Erich Segal).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pay attention.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, I don&#39;t read Swedish, so the translators have their work cut out for them.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113925494300953320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113925494300953320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139254920000#c113925494300953320' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113925025527081280</id><published>2006-02-06T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T13:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, Kirby, Henry and the Friends of Ron,Here&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, Kirby, Henry and the Friends of Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here&#39;s the address to the anthology of Swedish-language poetry which I&#39;ve put together, so that you know that I didn&#39;t just invent Henry Parland etc. (Hard to believe! I did invent Anatol Stern and a whole bunch of Eastern European poets from the 20s!)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.typomag.com/issue07/index.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;OK, I&#39;m totally banned from </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113925025527081280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113925025527081280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139250240000#c113925025527081280' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113924976277430553</id><published>2006-02-06T13:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T13:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,No offense. I was talking abt the comments her...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No offense. I was talking abt the comments here, not the blog. Sorry - this field has taken on a life of its own. What are yr thoughts on that?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I know the history of the New Critics, but am quite sorry to see everyone throw out the baby w/ the bathwater. Does anyone do that w/ Pound?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jenny</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924976277430553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924976277430553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139249760000#c113924976277430553' title=''/><author><name>Jenny Vroon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17499407317366551697</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-835167991"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113924614449693547</id><published>2006-02-06T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby:&quot;Curtis your weird comments about minor poet...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Curtis your weird comments about minor poets strikes me as needlessly incendiary. The smaller countries like Sweden and Finland and even Iceland have incredible literatures, and a standard of living that is well above our own. It&#39;s our loss that we can&#39;t read them.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was merely ramifying my original point that simply because it can be asserted (not proven) that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924614449693547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924614449693547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139246100000#c113924614449693547' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113924461421142089</id><published>2006-02-06T11:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T11:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let&#39;s posit a conceptual category for political &quot;l...</title><summary type='text'>Let&#39;s posit a conceptual category for political &quot;leaning.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We could call it &quot;drift.&quot;  A very imprecise term, almost like referring to a &quot;breeze.&quot;  &quot;The breeze was blowing roughly south by southwest, but never exactly by the compass.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like the dialectic created by advocating an apparent formality which tends to undermine a previously rigid formality.  But writing, like art, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924461421142089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924461421142089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139244600000#c113924461421142089' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113924395855565972</id><published>2006-02-06T11:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T11:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis your weird comments about minor poets strik...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis your weird comments about minor poets strikes me as needlessly incendiary.  The smaller countries like Sweden and Finland and even Iceland have incredible literatures, and a standard of living that is well above our own. It&#39;s our loss that we can&#39;t read them.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Even to read the writing of a museum country like France (they can no longer win wars and haven&#39;t won one since the 1850s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924395855565972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113924395855565972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139243940000#c113924395855565972' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113922776429468746</id><published>2006-02-06T07:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T07:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;One of the great ironies of this sort of dismissa...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;One of the great ironies of this sort of dismissal is that a Joseph Brodsky, whose solution was a return to the formal precision of pre-Soviet poetics &amp; to abstain from collaborating with the aesthetic bureaucrats of his time, easily fell into the hands of the same sort of apparatchiks once he was able to come west.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All this demonstrates, Ron, is that you&#39;ve absolutely No idea what </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113922776429468746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113922776429468746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139227740000#c113922776429468746' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11217856911720898729</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876787782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113922705425824854</id><published>2006-02-06T06:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T06:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jenny,I certainly have never taken that position v...</title><summary type='text'>Jenny,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I certainly have never taken that position vis-a-vis Ashbery, which a little reading here will make self-evident.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;New Criticism cooked the books. It was a strategy that was used -- by poets, by the way -- to institutionally capture English Departments during the 1940s on behalf of &quot;specialized readers.&quot; But it also had to defend the arch-conservative (and in some </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113922705425824854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113922705425824854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139227020000#c113922705425824854' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113920884249229044</id><published>2006-02-06T01:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T01:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let me see if I understand how things work on here...</title><summary type='text'>Let me see if I understand how things work on here:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;New Criticism: BAD (nevermind if we&#39;ve actually read any of it)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Experimentalism: GOOD EXCEPT WHEN IT&#39;S NOT&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;John Ashbery: WAS GOOD NOW &quot;CONSERVATIVE,&quot; apparently because he stopped writing nonsense&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Harold Bloom, Helen Vendler: SELF-EVIDENTLY BAD, no need to address any particular arguments&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Choosing the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113920884249229044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113920884249229044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139208840000#c113920884249229044' title=''/><author><name>Jenny Vroon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17499407317366551697</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-835167991"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113920121339565488</id><published>2006-02-05T23:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T23:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Everyone in the computer industry knows that VM st...</title><summary type='text'>Everyone in the computer industry knows that VM stands for &lt;B&gt;Virtual Machine&lt;/B&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113920121339565488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113920121339565488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139201160000#c113920121339565488' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113919993003198851</id><published>2006-02-05T23:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T23:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>VM isn&#39;t translated much into English because his ...</title><summary type='text'>VM isn&#39;t translated much into English because his riotous sound-play, neologisms, and destabilized meter are very daunting material to carry over into English. His Russian is truly volcanic. There&#39;s a horde of young American poets raised on Mayakovsky - I&#39;m one of them - who are just now hitting the scene. Look for a big-time VM resurrection in the coming years. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you haven&#39;t read VM </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113919993003198851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113919993003198851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139199900000#c113919993003198851' title=''/><author><name>Lara Glenum</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10970079044298842219</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2064852629"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113919563038941768</id><published>2006-02-05T22:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T22:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>VM--just a minor poet writing in &quot;interesting time...</title><summary type='text'>VM--just a minor poet writing in &quot;interesting times.&quot;  Nothing more, nothing less.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If 100 obscure poets living in 20 countries each writes a &quot;Mayakovsky&quot; poem, well, then, good for them.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bad model, bad imitators.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bad all around.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Zzzzzzzz....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113919563038941768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113919563038941768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139195580000#c113919563038941768' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113918650923817190</id><published>2006-02-05T19:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T19:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wonderful riposte.  I bow to your command of Engli...</title><summary type='text'>Wonderful riposte.  I bow to your command of English, Johannes.  May Swedes rule once more over the Baltic and the globe.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I travelled through your great country five summers ago and marvelled at it.  Plus, tomorrow, I will travel to an IKEA in the lousy state of New Jersey near the almost impossibly downtrodden city of Patterson simply to pay homage to your countrymen&#39;s sense of design </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113918650923817190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113918650923817190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139186460000#c113918650923817190' 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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113918076632140464</id><published>2006-02-05T18:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T18:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>First of all, Irish guy -- Mayakovsky didn&#39;t write...</title><summary type='text'>First of all, Irish guy -- Mayakovsky didn&#39;t write &quot;Victory of the Sun&quot; - That was Kruchenyk (plus Malevich&#39;s design, perhaps more importantly, and Matuchkin made the music). Though it was staged next to Mayakovsky&#39;s &quot;Mayakovsky - A Tragedy&quot;. Why am I being a pedant? Because you annoy me. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for Curtis -&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree about your analysis about Ashbery. I&#39;ve written about this on my </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113918076632140464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113918076632140464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139180760000#c113918076632140464' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113917475170856307</id><published>2006-02-05T16:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T16:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s the linkhttp://www.thunderpaw.com/neocelt/p...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s the link&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.thunderpaw.com/neocelt/poesy.htm</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113917475170856307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113917475170856307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139174700000#c113917475170856307' title=''/><author><name>IRISH POETS</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1154523763"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113917423551817623</id><published>2006-02-05T16:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T16:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oooh arrggh me tough talking ranters of poesie. Wh...</title><summary type='text'>Oooh arrggh me tough talking ranters of poesie. What a palavar of posturing and peroration. As I sit here in my virtual ringside seat at a cyber café cum sweet shop 200 yards from the Hapenny Bridge in Dublins fair city where the girls are sooh like pretty much questioning  everything with an inflection in the accent la la land style (due to the spread of quality omniscient sitcom from the home </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113917423551817623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113896731752239236/comments/default/113917423551817623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html?showComment=1139174220000#c113917423551817623' title=''/><author><name>IRISH POETS</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944</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/2006/02/at-some-point-spread-of-literacy-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113896731752239236' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113896731752239236' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1154523763"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2006"/></entry></feed>