<?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.post116289450719764920..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/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.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>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116355161075040501</id><published>2006-11-14T19:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T19:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We must all speak as we see fit.  I try not to be ...</title><summary type='text'>We must all speak as we see fit.  I try not to be pompous, but when I believe something firmly, I see no reason to hedge and qualify with apology and self-deprecation.  It&#39;s just &quot;my opinion&quot;--why, of course, who else&#39;s WOULD it be??  I also try not to speak over my head.  I did not &quot;go to school&quot; with Breton etc., but I&#39;ve read thousands of surrealist poems and looked at hundreds of surrealist </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116355161075040501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116355161075040501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163551560000#c116355161075040501' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116309816795798842</id><published>2006-11-09T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T13:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, My reaction can be accounted for by the fa...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, My reaction can be accounted for by the fact that a lot of disingenuous essays have been written in several continents for three quarters of a century utilizing some theoretical contrivance to demonstrate the ‘failure of Surrealism’ along with a false, self-aggrandizing claim of evolution.  In general, the knowledge you bring to your commentary is not only authoritative but is in the eye </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116309816795798842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116309816795798842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163098140000#c116309816795798842' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116308683496621944</id><published>2006-11-09T10:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T10:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sentences has been out of print for a long time.  ...</title><summary type='text'>Sentences has been out of print for a long time.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Apparently Michael Waltuch has never been in a position to have a second printing (or edition) done since there&#39;s no cost effective way to have the boxes made.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have a single copy in my own collection, but no more.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have suggested to Bob that it be reissued, but he&#39;s not particularly keen on the idea, since he&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116308683496621944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116308683496621944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163086800000#c116308683496621944' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116307981857961926</id><published>2006-11-09T08:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-09T08:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Both the physical and online editions of Sentences...</title><summary type='text'>Both the physical and online editions of &lt;B&gt;Sentences&lt;/B&gt; are in courier, yes, Steven.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116307981857961926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116307981857961926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163079780000#c116307981857961926' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116303895113030632</id><published>2006-11-08T21:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T21:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I’ve already responded (in a conversation ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I’ve already responded (in a conversation with you) to your version of poetic history presented here on Ron’s May 16 thread (reprinted since it is hard to scroll down and find it there):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;‘Looking at modernity-post-modernity through the prism of fate, Surrealism dealt with fate in a way that can‘t be summarized, but extending out Rimbaud‘s ‘change life,’ followed by Existentialism</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116303895113030632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116303895113030632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163038920000#c116303895113030632' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116303328545055764</id><published>2006-11-08T19:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T19:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow!The whalecloth link for Sentences is working a...</title><summary type='text'>Wow!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The whalecloth link for &lt;I&gt;Sentences&lt;/I&gt; is working again!  It was kaput for the longest time.  Good to see that.  I wonder if the typeface and font of the on-line version is the same as the original?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Of course, Curtis if you are ever ready to sell a hard copy, assuming you have the same to sell, keep me in mind.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And regardless, good posts here.  An important </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116303328545055764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116303328545055764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163033280000#c116303328545055764' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116300471436768327</id><published>2006-11-08T11:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T11:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks, tony, for the good response.  Grenier was ...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks, tony, for the good response.  Grenier was never about ratiocination.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As creatures fallen from grace--to extend my metaphorical version further--we are &quot;stuck&quot; with using words which can only &quot;explain&quot; and &quot;demonstrate&quot; and not simply and directly &quot;embody&quot; the state of immediacy which Bob&#39;s best poems do. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Surrealists had part of the argument right:  They realized </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116300471436768327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116300471436768327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1163004660000#c116300471436768327' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116296131706349893</id><published>2006-11-07T23:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T23:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,So, I HATE SPEECH is an Olsonian call for a...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So, I HATE SPEECH is an Olsonian call for a return to immediacy?  It seems like the same program from the surrealists (access to the immediacy of the unconscious) to ethnopoetics (access to the immediacy of primal rituals).  Or, same as Heidegger (access to the immediacy of being/of things), or even Deleuze (access to the immediacy of difference/novelty).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I love most, if</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116296131706349893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116296131706349893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162961280000#c116296131706349893' title=''/><author><name>Tony Tost</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229</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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599768463"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116295705984428714</id><published>2006-11-07T22:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T22:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,along similar lines, I&#39;ve admired the gnomi...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;along similar lines, I&#39;ve admired the gnomic, urban-folkloric (de-authorial) utterance &quot;I love New York&quot; for its pithy representation of the idealized (Augustinian) city glimmering within the form (and amid the ethos) of the mundane (American) actual.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116295705984428714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116295705984428714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162957020000#c116295705984428714' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116294621062768594</id><published>2006-11-07T19:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T19:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron tends to oversimplify Grenier&#39;s statement.  I&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Ron tends to oversimplify Grenier&#39;s statement.  I&#39;m sure that Bob never intended that statement to summarize his feelings about the state of poetry at that point in time.  He&#39;s not a calculating critical kind of thinker.  Much more to the point would be:  I hate fallen man.  I.e., after man emerged from the &quot;original&quot; state in which words--and things--and words AS/things--were abandoned in favor </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116294621062768594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116294621062768594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162946160000#c116294621062768594' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116293133613461925</id><published>2006-11-07T15:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T15:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,You&#39;re a context-sensitive kind of guy, but yo...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re a context-sensitive kind of guy, but you quote here Grenier&#39;s &#39;I HATE SPEECH&quot; statement without refering to what was written after that.  I&#39;m not home so can&#39;t check my copy of &lt;I&gt;This&lt;/I&gt; but as I remember Grenier immediately after wrote something along the lines of &quot;I like talk.&quot;  No, its not a contradiction but a refinement to or a nuance of the original statement.  But </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116293133613461925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116293133613461925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162931280000#c116293133613461925' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116292353554377389</id><published>2006-11-07T13:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T13:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Like a lot of talented young people of that era w...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Like a lot of talented young people of that era whose careers were diverted by drugs, politics, sex, disease or poverty.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Certainly not just young poets of that era. . . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116292353554377389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116292353554377389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162923480000#c116292353554377389' title=''/><author><name>Rocco DiStreitlmahn</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05401952796335386301</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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-522616634"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116291673721889194</id><published>2006-11-07T11:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T11:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There is also one name that I should mention in th...</title><summary type='text'>There is also one name that I should mention in this context, as someone who was in the middle of the Berkeley/Grenier scene in 1968--that would be Patrick Schnoor.  Patrick had grown up in Los Banos, his family had been ranchers I think for a couple of generations.  Patrick was a boisterous big German red-head with a jovial wit and a sense of daring.  He&#39;d written a brilliant sonnet sequence at </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116291673721889194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116291673721889194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162916700000#c116291673721889194' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116291486012425862</id><published>2006-11-07T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-07T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I could make a number of historical corrections to...</title><summary type='text'>I could make a number of historical corrections to this account, but I&#39;m not sure that matters.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The first thing that occurs to young writers (or artists) of original vision is a sense of FRUSTRATION.  Then comes ANGER.  Then comes a shrewd, conspiratorial biding.  (Not all writers, of course--some people never get excited about anything, but that&#39;s another matter).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyway, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116291486012425862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116289450719764920/comments/default/116291486012425862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html?showComment=1162914840000#c116291486012425862' 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/2006/11/i-first-met-barrett-watten-in-fall-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116289450719764920' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116289450719764920' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2006"/></entry></feed>