<?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.post115857477788563581..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/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115886502582026193</id><published>2006-09-21T14:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T14:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Ron I suspect was in a heightened state of pleasu...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Ron I suspect was in a heightened state of pleasure and tone while composing this--as all of--his works.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I envision you observing him carefully, lending him support the subtle motions of your spirit as expressed through your face and specifically your tongue but also your hands below, ballooning lips dangling from his meaty string as if you were Fedor Emelienanko slurping sausage vodka</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115886502582026193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115886502582026193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158865020000#c115886502582026193' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115881575331104773</id><published>2006-09-21T01:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T01:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;rabid&quot; is over-strong, especially when taken out ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;rabid&quot; is over-strong, especially when taken out of context.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron I suspect was in a heightened state of pleasure and tone while composing this--as all of--his works.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I just can&#39;t read more than about 20 questions before feeling as I did as a school-boy taking endless tests with multiple choice and direct interrogatories.  As serious readers, we train ourselves to read with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115881575331104773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115881575331104773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158815700000#c115881575331104773' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115880575280317319</id><published>2006-09-20T22:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T22:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven,my gnomic ditty owes some debt to the final...</title><summary type='text'>Steven,&lt;BR/&gt;my &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://kirwani.blogspot.com/2006/09/true-or-false-gnomic-ditty.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;gnomic ditty&lt;/A&gt; owes some debt to the final paragraph of your remarks.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;ps: my note about &quot;the Chelsea&quot; above should have been appended to Ron&#39;s Sept.19 post, not to this one.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115880575280317319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115880575280317319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158805740000#c115880575280317319' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115879510685580706</id><published>2006-09-20T19:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T19:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis writes, regarding the &quot;rabid&quot; use of (repea...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis writes, regarding the &quot;rabid&quot; use of (repeated) questions, &quot;Either we become numbed to the special quality of attention [the interrogative] evokes (when over-used), or we simply stop reading them as true “questions” and read them as declarative statements.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I imagine Ron rabid, writing &lt;I&gt;Sunset Debris&lt;/I&gt; alone, not eating, with dilated eyes, and attacking anything that tries to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115879510685580706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115879510685580706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158795060000#c115879510685580706' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115876426328083085</id><published>2006-09-20T10:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T10:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I find works composed entirely of questions to be ...</title><summary type='text'>I find works composed entirely of questions to be irritating, like brushing dog’s fur the wrong way over and over and over again.  A question creates a tension in the reader—the mind sets up an equation which we then “solve” by anticipating the possible answer, even positing possible fill-ins for that answer.  By not answering those questions, the writer thwarts this process, and the resulting </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115876426328083085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115876426328083085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158764220000#c115876426328083085' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115872826007901208</id><published>2006-09-20T00:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T00:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well I find a lot of them are, like&quot;you might find...</title><summary type='text'>Well I find a lot of them are, like&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;you might find anything on the small shelf in a phone booth&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s from Lit&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And I recall a Santa Claus pushing a shopping cart cross San Pablo being hassled by the police - this was a short sentence. It might even have been October...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115872826007901208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115872826007901208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158728220000#c115872826007901208' title=''/><author><name>chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068391526111662520</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1320777018"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115872190123241735</id><published>2006-09-19T23:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T23:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On different topic -- but concerning Ron&#39;s long pr...</title><summary type='text'>On different topic -- but concerning Ron&#39;s long prose poems -- Ron writes that Bob Perelman once said that in Ron&#39;s prose work &quot;every sentence is its own short story.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Perelman&#39;s assessment over-states it and slightly misses the mark.  Having just re-read &lt;I&gt;Tjanting&lt;/I&gt;, I&#39;d say most of the sentences in each of its paragraphs, including the 79 pager that ends the poem, could </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115872190123241735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115872190123241735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158721860000#c115872190123241735' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115870087018736319</id><published>2006-09-19T17:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T17:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,this is a tiny matter, but: you use the word &quot;...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;this is a tiny matter, but: you use the word &quot;Chelsea&quot; four times in this piece.  Two of those times, it&#39;s simply &quot;Chelsea,&quot; the other two times it&#39;s &quot;the Chelsea.&quot;  When it&#39;s a case of referring to the neighborhood, I have never [heretofore] heard or seen the definite article used; only when referring to the eponymous hotel, is it (inevitably) used -- in my experience.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115870087018736319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115870087018736319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158700860000#c115870087018736319' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115869903671975358</id><published>2006-09-19T16:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T16:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Just to add to the small catalogue of question poe...</title><summary type='text'>Just to add to the small catalogue of question poems, if my memory&#39;s right, Merwin has one in The Rain In The Trees (volume not on hand at the moment), I think entirely comprised of questions that might be posed to tourists in Hawaii.  Probably dates somewhat after Ron&#39;s volume (with Neruda as poss. direct or indirect antecedent).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The transcultural history of the rhetorical question in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115869903671975358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115869903671975358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158699000000#c115869903671975358' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115868650061345245</id><published>2006-09-19T13:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T13:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As for &quot;a poem full of questions&quot;---I&#39;m sure Ron w...</title><summary type='text'>As for &quot;a poem full of questions&quot;---I&#39;m sure Ron was familiar with Langston Hughes&#39;s poem starting &quot;What happens to a dream deferred?&quot; Should it be surprising that, to a certain extent, &lt;I&gt;Sunset Debris&lt;/I&gt; is a radical formal extension of Hughes?....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There are also echo poems that take on a question-and-answer form, like George Herbet&#39;s. But they have answers as well as questions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115868650061345245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115868650061345245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158686460000#c115868650061345245' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115867945106552516</id><published>2006-09-19T11:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T11:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&#39;t know about the Neruda, tho it doesn&#39;t sho...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&#39;t know about the Neruda, tho it doesn&#39;t shock me. Inger Christensen is a Danish poet who began use the Fibonacci system in her poetry at almost the same moment I did as well. Even spookier, she named her Fibonacci-based book &lt;I&gt;Alfabet&lt;/I&gt;!?!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867945106552516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867945106552516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158679440000#c115867945106552516' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115867836197937588</id><published>2006-09-19T11:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T11:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>James -- Thanks for posting the information about ...</title><summary type='text'>James -- Thanks for posting the information about Neruda&#39;s &lt;I&gt;The Book of Questions&lt;/I&gt;.    &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whether Ron knew of Neruda&#39;s book, or approach, is another question.   Neruda&#39;s book was written  in 1973, but apparently published only in Spanish (in Buenos Aires) as &lt;I&gt;Libro de las preguntas&lt;/I&gt;  in 1974.  The first  English edition of Neruda&#39;s book apparently was not published until 1991 (by</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867836197937588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867836197937588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158678360000#c115867836197937588' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115867148812696234</id><published>2006-09-19T09:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T09:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pablo Neruda&#39;s The Book of Questions was written i...</title><summary type='text'>Pablo Neruda&#39;s The Book of Questions was written in his last year, 1973.  It&#39;s entirely composed of questions, 316 of them.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867148812696234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867148812696234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158671460000#c115867148812696234' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115867092224146452</id><published>2006-09-19T09:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T09:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Can I ask you a Question?(I recall the rocknroll l...</title><summary type='text'>Can I ask you a Question?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(I recall the rocknroll lyric I found so instructive: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;half the trouble is in the askin&quot;)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Its the one instance those penchants for comparing baseball and poetry didn&#39;t make me roll my eyes - questions a writer pitches a reader - &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;stop right there...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sunset Debris&#39; a little Goose Gossagey?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t have the text at </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867092224146452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115867092224146452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158670920000#c115867092224146452' title=''/><author><name>chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11068391526111662520</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1320777018"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115863954973979668</id><published>2006-09-19T00:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T00:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>All questions of the word &#39;astoined&#39; aside, I find...</title><summary type='text'>All questions of the word &#39;astoined&#39; aside, I find Ron&#39;s post quite moving.  It taught me something. Several things.  And raised several questions I must ask myself.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thanks a lot!  Now I&#39;ve got to read Hejinian&#39;s &lt;I&gt;My Life&lt;/I&gt;, a work I&#39;ve read about but but never read.  I know her by reputation and from her work in &#39;The Best of . . .&#39; series, one of which I believe she edited.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115863954973979668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115863954973979668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158639540000#c115863954973979668' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115863103250718435</id><published>2006-09-18T21:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T21:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven,on grounds akin to (some of) those you note...</title><summary type='text'>Steven,&lt;BR/&gt;on grounds akin to (some of) those you note for astonied, I&#39;ve (at times, at least rhetorically or hypothetically) piped up in favor of &quot;spont&quot; (as an adjective) over &quot;spontaneous&quot; -- the latter seeming a tad syllabically cluttered for so freewheeling a moiety. ;-)&lt;BR/&gt;d.i.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115863103250718435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115863103250718435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158631020000#c115863103250718435' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115862860836717993</id><published>2006-09-18T21:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T21:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Some of Chaucer&#39;s most-cited lines recently (mostl...</title><summary type='text'>Some of Chaucer&#39;s most-cited lines recently (mostly because of the (o/au)rality debate) revolve around that similarity between astonied and stoned (though I doubt he was referring to reefer... maybe to drunkenness, from which the now utterly dominant marijuana reference was derived (using &quot;stoned&quot; to mean drunk is now archaic)):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;That is, that thou hast no tydynges&lt;BR/&gt;Of Loves folk yf</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115862860836717993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115862860836717993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158628560000#c115862860836717993' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115861715254593016</id><published>2006-09-18T18:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T18:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sure enough, a quick googling of  the words &quot;aston...</title><summary type='text'>Sure enough, a quick googling of  the words &quot;astonied&quot; and Chaucer shows at least three instances of its use -- in &lt;I&gt;The Clerk&#39;s Tale&lt;/I&gt;, &lt;I&gt;The Legend of Good Women&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Troilus and Criseyde&lt;/I&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In Ron&#39;s mid-1980s &lt;I&gt;Paradise&lt;/I&gt;, the archaic &quot;astonied&quot; (meaning astonished, essentially)  brought to my  mind a more modern connotation --  &quot;stoned.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Even without the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115861715254593016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115861715254593016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158617100000#c115861715254593016' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115861531464996097</id><published>2006-09-18T17:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T17:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Assuming that Sunset Debris was the first to use t...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Assuming that Sunset Debris was the first to use the approach of pages of questions&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;I had a sudden vision of gigantic curves and whorls and partial inverse s-shapes and line-fragments and dots and black blobs (some printed to resemble tears in the page---photocopied rips?) alternating with fragmented miniscule portions of curves resolving into (as the book progresses over the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115861531464996097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115861531464996097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158615300000#c115861531464996097' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115861478307281380</id><published>2006-09-18T17:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T17:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?  Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115861478307281380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115861478307281380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158614760000#c115861478307281380' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115860073945750922</id><published>2006-09-18T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Astonied,&quot; if memory serves, is straight out of C...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Astonied,&quot; if memory serves, is straight out of Chaucer.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115860073945750922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115860073945750922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158600720000#c115860073945750922' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115859803094416284</id><published>2006-09-18T12:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T12:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron gives  Hejinain&#39;s My Life a nice (and neat) ti...</title><summary type='text'>Ron gives  Hejinain&#39;s &lt;I&gt;My Life&lt;/I&gt; a nice (and neat) tip of the poet&#39;s hat in his &lt;I&gt;Paradise&lt;/I&gt;, which he wrote and had published just a few years after Hejinain&#39;s book. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One of the classic repeated lines in &lt;I&gt;My Life&lt;/I&gt; is &quot;For we who love to be astonished.&quot;   Ron is his &lt;I&gt;Paradise&lt;/I&gt; uses that exact line one or two times, but then one time (warning: spolier ahead) tweaks it so </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115859803094416284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115859803094416284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158598020000#c115859803094416284' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115859202965877484</id><published>2006-09-18T11:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T11:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,of your many decorous gestures in the form of ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;of your many decorous gestures in the form of attentive book reviews, this one seems the most decorous of all: an interesting and appealing instance of the book critique as act of self-criticism.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Speaking of speaking of compassion: coincidentally (&amp; uniquely for me), I happened, earlier this morning, to title a poem &quot;&lt;A HREF=&quot;http://kirwani.blogspot.com/2006/09/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115859202965877484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115857477788563581/comments/default/115859202965877484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html?showComment=1158592020000#c115859202965877484' 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/2006/09/photo-by-ben-friedlander-when-lyn.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115857477788563581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115857477788563581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2006"/></entry></feed>