<?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.post115026047210774196..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/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/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-115048959213222398</id><published>2006-06-16T16:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T16:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy,taking a possible positive spin on this backg...</title><summary type='text'>Andy,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;taking a possible positive spin on this background music idea (one might view it variously, or read differing implications, at least with some works -- or in some critical moods), another musical metaphor for it might be:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the tonal drone that underpins most performances of Indian classical music -- the drone (usually of the tonic plus the fifth) that gives an underlying </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115048959213222398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115048959213222398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150489560000#c115048959213222398' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115048809246300286</id><published>2006-06-16T16:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T16:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So, in poetry, that would mean that I want tone to...</title><summary type='text'>So, in poetry, that would mean that I want tone to be a conscious factor, and not just a default state intended to fill gaps, smooth transitions, keep people&#39;s attention in the absence of other reasons for that, and trick them into liking it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115048809246300286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115048809246300286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150488060000#c115048809246300286' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115048773296059749</id><published>2006-06-16T15:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T15:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Scott:I&#39;m uncomfortable with saying that Spicer&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>Scott:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m uncomfortable with saying that Spicer&#39;s dictation comes from &quot;the spiritual realm.&quot; That&#39;s not &quot;outside&quot; enough for him, and has too many &quot;inside&quot; (our &quot;realm&quot;) connotations. As he says repeatedly, &quot;Martians&quot; and &quot;ghosts&quot; are just stand-in words for &quot;whatever,&quot; which is always more radically exterior (defined only negatively) than any concepts of spiritual matters have given </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115048773296059749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115048773296059749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150487700000#c115048773296059749' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115047800218650593</id><published>2006-06-16T13:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T13:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curious to consider in this connection are films (...</title><summary type='text'>Curious to consider in this connection are films (rarely created these days) -- such as Jacques Demy&#39;s &lt;A HREF=&quot;Jacques Demy&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Umbrellas of Cherbourg&lt;/A&gt; -- where every word is sung. Thus, akin to opera.  In such a case, the music is interfused with the text or dialogue.  The &quot;background music&quot; metaphor perhaps no longer operates so cleanly if considering this form; the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047800218650593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047800218650593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150477980000#c115047800218650593' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115047384869636240</id><published>2006-06-16T12:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T12:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Movie music is difficult to do well.  Many of its ...</title><summary type='text'>Movie music is difficult to do well.  Many of its most frequent practitioners could not have made &quot;straight&quot; concert-music, but did yeomanly work on countless soundtracks.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The problem in cinematic narrative is either to enhance the action, without becoming obtrusive, or writing well enough that the music actually becomes a character or a commentator on the action like a Greek chorus.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047384869636240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047384869636240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150473840000#c115047384869636240' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115047247435453693</id><published>2006-06-16T11:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T11:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Regarding Ron&#39;s comment, I&#39;m having trouble seeing...</title><summary type='text'>Regarding Ron&#39;s comment, I&#39;m having trouble seeing the lyric vs. post-avant division as a question of temporal orientation (past or future-facing) as much as it is one of tone, content, and style.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lyric as bardic tradition suggests that the term has a historical, retrospective lineage to it, a kind of verse that has been typically held up as a lens for synthesizing personal and social </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047247435453693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047247435453693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150472460000#c115047247435453693' title=''/><author><name>Scott Glassman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09765668936962074730</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1630916886"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115047116602398055</id><published>2006-06-16T11:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T11:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy:You&#39;re spot on about Strand&#39;s &quot;serious&quot; mood ...</title><summary type='text'>Andy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re spot on about Strand&#39;s &quot;serious&quot; mood music.  Too often, poets of his ilk will insist on an authority that isn&#39;t bolstered by content.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now, my children, I&#39;m going to tell you a very dark tale, so sit on the edge of your seats, try not to cry or scream, and I&#39;ll relate it to you.  It&#39;s about the death of my father.  Now you didn&#39;t know my father, but he was a very </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047116602398055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115047116602398055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150471140000#c115047116602398055' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115045365659705832</id><published>2006-06-16T06:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T06:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I remember being favorably impressed by a poem of ...</title><summary type='text'>I remember being favorably impressed by a poem of Duncan&#39;s that made reference to a dripping faucet.  The sense that lingers in mind (some decades after reading it) involves a feeling of destiny, or an idea of the inevitability of being in the room and hearing the particular dripping faucet.  I should like to find that passage again sometime...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Expanding the soundtrack thing a bit Andy -</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045365659705832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045365659705832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150453620000#c115045365659705832' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115045302716096718</id><published>2006-06-16T06:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T06:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>psst: does the &quot;voice&quot; of the poet reside in the s...</title><summary type='text'>psst: does the &quot;voice&quot; of the poet reside in the soundtrack itself, or is it more a kind of pervasive voiceover?  And when dialogue appears -- hey!  It&#39;s still him!?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yesterday on bus, I read Merwin&#39;s prose preface to The Second Four Books (Copper Canyon) -- which gives some cogent background for his (lately-noted) sorta-grave mien.  The topic of soundtrack is relevant to Merwin studies.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045302716096718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045302716096718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150453020000#c115045302716096718' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115045300235115626</id><published>2006-06-16T06:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T06:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, I find the metaphor useful... though I don&#39;t...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, I find the metaphor useful... though I don&#39;t want to depend on it too much. &quot;Tone&quot; is an important compositional... thingy (it&#39;s 5 a.m., bedtime, ok?) and as large as DRI implies. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve already misused the metaphor to criticize Duncan, who I think is often clearly wonderful... and who I&#39;m still searching for, with some more well-thought-out frustration... what&#39;s great there is (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045300235115626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045300235115626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150452960000#c115045300235115626' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115045185417161034</id><published>2006-06-16T05:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T05:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,the future v. the past is a false (albeit comm...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the future v. the past is a false (albeit commonplace) dichotomy.&lt;BR/&gt;-- that not being an actual assertion of belief; but I was curious to see how it would sound.&lt;BR/&gt;But in point of fact, your terse sentence seems a powerful key, or lens, or something.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;all interesting.  My minor anecdote about James Tate: I remember chatting with the late Lynne Beyer on subway</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045185417161034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115045185417161034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150451820000#c115045185417161034' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043357393002081</id><published>2006-06-16T00:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T00:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lyric vs. post-avant is a false dichotomy. It real...</title><summary type='text'>Lyric vs. post-avant is a false dichotomy. It really is about facing the calendar, one looking to the future, the other to the past.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043357393002081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043357393002081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150433520000#c115043357393002081' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043328029972002</id><published>2006-06-16T00:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T00:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, here&#39;s another one, to clarify.I meant to say,...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, here&#39;s another one, to clarify.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I meant to say, Scott, that I&#39;m very attracted to these qualities you mention; they&#39;re also some of the qualities that got me really excited about poetry... but that&#39;s one reason I try to maintain skepticism about them... though I&#39;m not skeptical of Rimbaud, the first mind-blower for me. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And on the tone/Strand thing: compare somebody like </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043328029972002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043328029972002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150433280000#c115043328029972002' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043292748484585</id><published>2006-06-16T00:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T00:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>But the sewing machine IS making love to the hatra...</title><summary type='text'>But the sewing machine IS making love to the hatrack! At least I think that&#39;s what they&#39;re doing. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On the Strand stanza Scott cites (sssss):&lt;BR/&gt;Yeah, that one has always struck me as very powerful. The problem I&#39;ve grown to have with his work is this: it seems like the TONE carries the whole thing, that if an inconsistency, a disruption came into the poem, the whole thing would be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043292748484585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043292748484585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150432920000#c115043292748484585' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115043208467279414</id><published>2006-06-16T00:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-16T00:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I recall a friend going to one of Strand&#39;s early r...</title><summary type='text'>I recall a friend going to one of Strand&#39;s early readings at Berkeley--this would have been in about 1968--and saying that Strand was very camp--very arch and coy, that was and I think still is his reading style.  A guy I know who once knew him well says he lives high, the best food and the best wine, and the best women and the best clothes and so on and on.  In youth and middle age, he was a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043208467279414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115043208467279414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150432080000#c115043208467279414' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115042986335098856</id><published>2006-06-15T23:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T23:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>andy, david, curtis, mike-- thank you guys for the...</title><summary type='text'>andy, david, curtis, mike-- thank you guys for the suggested poets, i will see where they take me . . &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree that in Wright&#39;s latest, &quot;God&#39;s Silence&quot; he&#39;s lost some of the restraint that made Martha&#39;s Vineyard so good, letting religious exuberance propel him into bad verse.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;David, that dark surrealist quality of Simic and Strand is what got me into poetry in the first place --</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042986335098856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042986335098856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150429860000#c115042986335098856' title=''/><author><name>Scott Glassman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09765668936962074730</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1630916886"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115042985133250636</id><published>2006-06-15T23:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T23:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>andy, david, curtis, mike-- thank you guys for the...</title><summary type='text'>andy, david, curtis, mike-- thank you guys for the suggested poets, i will see where they take me . . &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree that in Wright&#39;s latest, &quot;God&#39;s Silence&quot; he&#39;s lost some of the restraint that made Martha&#39;s Vineyard so good, letting religious exuberance propel him into bad verse.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;David, that dark surrealist quality of Simic and Strand is what got me into poetry in the first place --</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042985133250636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042985133250636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150429800000#c115042985133250636' title=''/><author><name>Scott Glassman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09765668936962074730</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1630916886"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115042874651366480</id><published>2006-06-15T23:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T23:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe [as it were],I&#39;d forgotten that Strand poem Ke...</title><summary type='text'>Joe [as it were],&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;d forgotten that Strand poem &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/453.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Keeping Things Whole&lt;/A&gt; -- and vaguely thought your phrase here was from Stevens.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042874651366480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042874651366480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150428720000#c115042874651366480' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115042054350608037</id><published>2006-06-15T21:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T21:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In a field Mark Strand was the absence of the fiel...</title><summary type='text'>In a field Mark Strand was the absence of the field.  Giving me one of my best lines.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042054350608037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115042054350608037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150420500000#c115042054350608037' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115041854749755975</id><published>2006-06-15T20:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T20:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy,that&#39;s interesting about the (from what you s...</title><summary type='text'>Andy,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;that&#39;s interesting about the (from what you say) resurgence of the lyric.  That reminds, I should get that Bay Poetics and see what the kids are up to lately.  (Or is there some more-recommended singular place to see such, post-avant-wise?)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041854749755975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041854749755975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150418520000#c115041854749755975' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115041758887397894</id><published>2006-06-15T20:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T20:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I happen (too) to like Mark Strand (particularly e...</title><summary type='text'>I happen (too) to like Mark Strand (particularly early work), which arguably shares something (when speaking generally) with James Tate and Charles Simic -- all at least are willing to play with eddies of the dark surreal.  For some reason Strand got bracketed (at one time) as a socalled deep image poet, an alleged school whose named figures included Merwin, Bly, and the pater familias James </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041758887397894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041758887397894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150417560000#c115041758887397894' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115041752938502239</id><published>2006-06-15T20:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T20:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Early Watten is great.Late Watten is great, too.So...</title><summary type='text'>Early Watten is great.&lt;BR/&gt;Late Watten is great, too.&lt;BR/&gt;Sometimes he&#39;s pretty funny, even in really gnarled works like &lt;I&gt;Conduit&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Strand?&lt;BR/&gt;Pretense. At least it seems so to me. Basically shallow poems in which the interesting stuff is just spice (or, better, frosting). Not atrocious, though; I think he thinks. I find him hard to take as a reader, very full of himself, and that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041752938502239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041752938502239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150417500000#c115041752938502239' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115041726635632590</id><published>2006-06-15T20:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T20:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;post-avant&quot; poets who might be &quot;lyrical,&quot; at leas...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;post-avant&quot; poets who might be &quot;lyrical,&quot; at least sometimes:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Fanny Howe, certainly.&lt;BR/&gt;Michael Palmer&lt;BR/&gt;Tony Tost&lt;BR/&gt;C.D. Wright&lt;BR/&gt;Frank O&#39;Hara&lt;BR/&gt;Kit Robinson&lt;BR/&gt;Peter Gizzi&lt;BR/&gt;Robert Duncan&lt;BR/&gt;Rae Armantrout&lt;BR/&gt;Juliana Spahr&lt;BR/&gt;David Bromige&lt;BR/&gt;Alice Notley&lt;BR/&gt;Maureen Owen&lt;BR/&gt;Laura Moriarty&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;plenty more. Some of these are definitely &quot;sometimes.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;List </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041726635632590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115041726635632590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150417260000#c115041726635632590' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115040959044001269</id><published>2006-06-15T18:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T18:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Barry Watten is certainly post-Modern, and Lang-po...</title><summary type='text'>Barry Watten is certainly post-Modern, and Lang-po, and gravely serious most of the time, but since about 1975, I can&#39;t think of anything he&#39;s written that seems &quot;lyrical&quot;--I&#39;m sure he would place himself &quot;beyond&quot; lyricism, in a place where what is said cannot so simply be defined.  But I think it&#39;s just terrific, nonetheless.    &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lyricism versus Whatever is a poor dichotomy, anyway.&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115040959044001269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115040959044001269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150409580000#c115040959044001269' 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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115040952916999592</id><published>2006-06-15T18:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-15T18:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>repetition is lyrical...lyrical(fanny howe that wo...</title><summary type='text'>repetition is lyrical...lyrical&lt;BR/&gt;(fanny howe that works, isn&#39;t it?)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115040952916999592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115026047210774196/comments/default/115040952916999592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html?showComment=1150409520000#c115040952916999592' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/06/donald-hall-poet-laureate-william.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115026047210774196' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115026047210774196' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 15, 2006"/></entry></feed>