<?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.post116350609398851506..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/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116422661455426425</id><published>2006-11-22T15:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T15:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CA, you&#39;re such a tease.  With the raised salute m...</title><summary type='text'>CA, you&#39;re such a tease.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;With the raised salute my jolly roger, here&#39;s wishing you a meat-free Thanksgiving.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116422661455426425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116422661455426425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1164226560000#c116422661455426425' 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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116362509516882405</id><published>2006-11-15T16:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T16:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, don&#39;t you agree that Ms. Miasma would be a...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, don&#39;t you agree that Ms. Miasma would be a fantastic drag name?  Hmm, who could we convince to use it?  What poet do we know who best fits the name?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hmm, tough one.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CAConrad</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116362509516882405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116362509516882405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163625060000#c116362509516882405' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116357278324618353</id><published>2006-11-15T01:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T01:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>okay :-)The reason I was aware of the Barr article...</title><summary type='text'>okay :-)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The reason I was aware of the Barr article some time ago (anecdotally), is because an American guy in New Delhi posted to a mainly-South-Asian writers&#39; network that I hang out at, posing some general idea-questions based on Barr&#39;s ruminations. [department of small woild]  I did in fact (on said network] mention the fact the chap was lamenting the lack of new things while </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116357278324618353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116357278324618353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163572740000#c116357278324618353' 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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116356288477862331</id><published>2006-11-14T22:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T22:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>David, I&#39;m not sure the chronology matters.  It&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>David, I&#39;m not sure the chronology matters.  It&#39;s all part of the same miasma.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116356288477862331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116356288477862331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163562840000#c116356288477862331' 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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' 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-116355617221624043</id><published>2006-11-14T21:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T21:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>David, yes I know September was before November, b...</title><summary type='text'>David, yes I know September was before November, but it didn&#39;t circulate widely until just now.  So I&#39;m treating it as news, at least to me.  Maybe because you read it in September it&#39;s old news now, but thanks for the tip.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CAConrad</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116355617221624043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116355617221624043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163556120000#c116355617221624043' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116353964277266661</id><published>2006-11-14T16:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T16:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CAConrad,re: the opening (I guess arch, rhetorical...</title><summary type='text'>CAConrad,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;re: the opening (I guess arch, rhetorical?) salvo in your Open Letter to John Barr --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;&lt; Dear Mr. Barr, first the Democrats take back control, then Rumsfeld steps down, and then, AND THEN, you finally admit to being bored with the company you keep in the latest issue of POETRY Magazine....&gt;&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;-- um, that essay of Barr&#39;s is from the September 2006 issue.  Your chronology </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116353964277266661'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116353964277266661'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163539620000#c116353964277266661' 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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116353866012746511</id><published>2006-11-14T16:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T16:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>CA, it seems true of all poets: give &#39;em 5 minutes...</title><summary type='text'>CA, it seems true of all poets: give &#39;em 5 minutes to bask in the light an they&#39;ll take 45, sometimes 60.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116353866012746511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116353866012746511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163538660000#c116353866012746511' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18315356369259909084</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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277623651"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116353797950093178</id><published>2006-11-14T15:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T15:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah, isn&#39;t that nearly always the case when two poe...</title><summary type='text'>Ah, isn&#39;t that nearly always the case when two poets with vastly distant styles are compared side by side? Readers who love one, are ultimately frustrated by the other. Your advice is key...understand the logic behind the words. Exactly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you for yet another good read.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116353797950093178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116353797950093178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163537940000#c116353797950093178' title=''/><author><name>ClaudBLOG</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13794923956292209938</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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1323033163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116352566828055701</id><published>2006-11-14T12:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T12:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There were SO MANY people (many of them good frien...</title><summary type='text'>There were SO MANY people (many of them good friends) nothing short of pissed off when, years ago, against their advice, against their whispers, I went to hear Charles Bernstein read, only to report back how I believe genius what at hand and that they were missing out.  At this point I still was unclear if the other rumors about him were true, that he was a wicked tyrant who LOVED more than </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116352566828055701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116352566828055701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163525640000#c116352566828055701' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116352047313453413</id><published>2006-11-14T11:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T11:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Coolidge is of an earlier generation.  His Ing, Sp...</title><summary type='text'>Coolidge is of an earlier generation.  His Ing, Space and other early efforts clearly precede the appearance of the so-called Language School.  The Maintains and Polaroid were published essentially as homages to the antecedents, choosing the past to better define (and influence) the future.  And though he technically is contemporary with LangPo, Michael Palmer is also pre-LangPo.  Coolidge&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116352047313453413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116352047313453413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163520420000#c116352047313453413' 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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' 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-116350785827643395</id><published>2006-11-14T07:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T07:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Of all the language poets, Watten is perhaps the ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Of all the language poets, Watten is perhaps the closest to the tradition of the troubadours, and especially of the concept of trobar clus, a literature that pulls out all the stops &amp; tries to be all that language might be, that makes conscious demands on readers &amp; expects them to actually want these demands, &amp; to understand the pleasure that comes in reading a dense (if not “difficult”) text. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116350785827643395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116350609398851506/comments/default/116350785827643395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html?showComment=1163507820000#c116350785827643395' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/on-wednesday-of-last-week-there-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116350609398851506' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116350609398851506' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2006"/></entry></feed>