<?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.post116782225792251818..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/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.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>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116801823570797297</id><published>2007-01-05T12:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T12:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Omby, it probably was Clarissa--which rhymes with ...</title><summary type='text'>Omby, it probably was Clarissa--which rhymes with ERISA (the Federal Law that sets minimum standards for most volunatrily established pension and health plans in private industry--Employee Retirement Income Security Act--and which scares corporations so much they&#39;re inclined to declare bankruptcy just to rid themselves of it).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Epistolary novels.  Personally I like the picaresque romps-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116801823570797297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116801823570797297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1168018200000#c116801823570797297' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116801738143163306</id><published>2007-01-05T12:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T12:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think he lived to a great extent off of painting...</title><summary type='text'>I think he lived to a great extent off of paintings.  He would buy and sell.  Ok, at least we have the same source -- Polizzotti.  I have never been able to afford my own copy. I keep getting it out of libraries.  That book never goes down in price for some reason.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So he kept up the rent on Breton&#39;s apartment in Paris throughout the war.  That would have meant about five years rent?  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116801738143163306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116801738143163306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1168017360000#c116801738143163306' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116800829547531605</id><published>2007-01-05T09:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-05T09:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirbs, Having checked all the Louis Breton citatio...</title><summary type='text'>Kirbs, Having checked all the Louis Breton citations in the Polizzotti bio, there’s two instances of him pitching in financially after 1920 – making rent payments during WW2 when Breton had to leave Paris and in 1950, when the aging Louis gave him money to buy a house on the Lot Valley.  This phenomenon doesn’t shed light on how Breton sustained himself as you suggest. My source for the fact that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116800829547531605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116800829547531605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1168008240000#c116800829547531605' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116796704520053877</id><published>2007-01-04T22:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-04T22:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis wrote: &quot;In those days, candidates were expe...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis wrote: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;In those days, candidates were expected to have familiarized themselves with the whole of English literature from Beowulf to Yeats,&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;By which you mean, the canon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now graduate students are expected to familiarize themselves with popular and historically relevant literature. And with whatever the professor happens to be working on at the moment. Went to &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116796704520053877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116796704520053877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167967020000#c116796704520053877' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116793952881543710</id><published>2007-01-04T14:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-04T14:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, you don&#39;t list a source for your information ...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, you don&#39;t list a source for your information that Breton was never helped after his 24th birthday by his dad.  In Mark Polizzotti&#39;s giant biography, he remarks in one of the later chapters that Breton&#39;s father had secretly kept in touch with his son (despite the mother&#39;s disapproval) throughout his life.  His father was a postal worker but assiduously saved money to send to his son </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116793952881543710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116793952881543710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167939480000#c116793952881543710' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116793014144075756</id><published>2007-01-04T12:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-04T12:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t think Hugh Kenner could ever have written ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t think Hugh Kenner could ever have written interesting poems or fiction.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t think William Carlos Williams was capable of solemn, methodical exegesis.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The criticism of poets tends towards either opinionated wisecracking, or shoptalk.  The creative writing of critics tends to be precious, imitative and bland.  Exceptions would include T.S. Eliot--a talented critic and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116793014144075756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116793014144075756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167930120000#c116793014144075756' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116788126987541827</id><published>2007-01-03T22:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T22:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If the goal is to write, and to write, and to writ...</title><summary type='text'>If the goal is to write, and to write, and to write, then the goal is to free time and resources and throw them into your creative furnace. Throw out everything that&#39;s not tied down to keep the ship afloat.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s hip and posh to be in Manhattan, but a less-expensive city with roommates and a part-time job can free up plenty of writing time. Perhaps grow narcotics. Work ten hours a week, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116788126987541827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116788126987541827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167881220000#c116788126987541827' title=''/><author><name>Nate the Writer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13738644181345761853</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://myspace-306.vo.llnwd.net/00378/60/36/378166306_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-511930811"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116787543940050622</id><published>2007-01-03T20:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T20:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I had a good time during a few visits (book browsi...</title><summary type='text'>I had a good time during a few visits (book browsing - attempting to read the mockup of The Age of Huts at the UCP booth along with several other books while standing there, offsite reading and afterparty, even taking notes at the Presidential Lectures) while the circus was in town.  A few responses to comments..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby: “Breton&#39;s father helped him out throughout his life.” – Breton’s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116787543940050622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116787543940050622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167875400000#c116787543940050622' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116787341988503837</id><published>2007-01-03T20:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T20:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;The haven from candidates and conventionsLeaks th...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;The haven from candidates and conventions&lt;BR/&gt;Leaks through its thatch;&lt;BR/&gt;He offers macrobiotic cooking;&lt;BR/&gt;The router has a home-made patch.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116787341988503837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116787341988503837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167873360000#c116787341988503837' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116787196518909250</id><published>2007-01-03T19:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T19:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My MFA landed me a teaching job.  12 hours.  Good ...</title><summary type='text'>My MFA landed me a teaching job.  12 hours.  Good money.  Long vacation.  Just that this job happens to be in Korea teaching EFL.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116787196518909250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116787196518909250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167871920000#c116787196518909250' title=''/><author><name>JWG</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15983966674045451970</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4813/939/1024/NC%202006.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1310991121"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116786849554003624</id><published>2007-01-03T18:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T18:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If we&#39;re going to talk about timing, the venn diag...</title><summary type='text'>If we&#39;re going to talk about timing, the venn diagram overlap between &quot;poet&quot; and &quot;professor,&quot; as has been oft pointed out, is a relatively new thing. To realize that there&#39;s already some sense of entitlement about it lurking in the back corners of all those newly-minted MFAs and Ph.D.s is both dismaying and ironically hilarious. (I have a Bachelor&#39;s in Music Composition, and an almost-finished </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116786849554003624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116786849554003624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167868440000#c116786849554003624' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07399620147907002735</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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1119200278"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116786125740083968</id><published>2007-01-03T16:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T16:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>being a student is a time to work like mad; regard...</title><summary type='text'>being a student is a time to work like mad; regardless of the work you get you might never have that much time again</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116786125740083968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116786125740083968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167861240000#c116786125740083968' title=''/><author><name>michaelf</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03896092358881060164</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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-107943565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116785068055636676</id><published>2007-01-03T13:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T13:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon says.And good for you Simon.  Actually, non-...</title><summary type='text'>Simon says.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And good for you Simon.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, non-academic work can have a very deleterious influence on one&#39;s artistic career.  There are a few significant exceptions, such as Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.  But for the most part, having a day job to support a family&#39;s needs makes writing (or painting, or photographing) a difficult avocation.  Ironically, it may</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116785068055636676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116785068055636676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167850680000#c116785068055636676' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116785062420066746</id><published>2007-01-03T13:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T13:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Can you please &quot;unpack&quot; what you mean when yo...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Can you please &quot;unpack&quot; what you mean when you suggest that whatever has been  offered (by whom is not clear) about the poet Jack Gilbert operating in isolation is &quot;farce&quot;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your statement of &quot;farce&quot; without any explanatory context comes off as some sort of ad hominen personal swipe. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You have previously arm-chair analyzed Gilbert by stating (March 2, 2006): &quot;I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116785062420066746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116785062420066746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167850620000#c116785062420066746' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784901714405432</id><published>2007-01-03T13:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T13:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven wrote:&quot;I mean, of the ten poets writing the...</title><summary type='text'>Steven wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I mean, of the ten poets writing the (your) collective autobiography The Grand Piano, six teach in the academy.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Famous poets get offered professorships. They&#39;re relatively plush and probably hard to turn down. Silliman and Bernstein have no advanced degrees (maybe some honorary ones?). On the other hand, Bob Perelman went through the whole PhD-acquiring process (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784901714405432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784901714405432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167849000000#c116784901714405432' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784772083564389</id><published>2007-01-03T13:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T13:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t believe that any of the surrealist poets h...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t believe that any of the surrealist poets had academic jobs.  Soupault did later teach at Swarthmore and at the University of Washington but only for one-year visiting gigs.  He worked as a bureaucrat for oil companies and later for UNESCO, but his family had money.  His uncle was the Louis Renault who started the car company.  Breton&#39;s father helped him out throughout his life, and Breton</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784772083564389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784772083564389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167847680000#c116784772083564389' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784646748818472</id><published>2007-01-03T12:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T12:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>one more thing to confirm the rightness of my deci...</title><summary type='text'>one more thing to confirm the rightness of my decision to drop out of my MFA program in the first week. . .=)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784646748818472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784646748818472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167846420000#c116784646748818472' title=''/><author><name>Fabian Delecto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06212144823606055500</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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1031207256"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784541342605671</id><published>2007-01-03T12:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T12:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A degree in Creative Writing can get you a job tod...</title><summary type='text'>A degree in Creative Writing can get you a job today in Accounting!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Totally worth it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And no matter how many thousands of poets go left out of the system, and no matter how many times those going for degrees in CW are told they aren&#39;t getting a job teaching poetry, thousands of poets are still going to believe they will because poets live in la la land and always think they&#39;re </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784541342605671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784541342605671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167845400000#c116784541342605671' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277623651"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784532954898807</id><published>2007-01-03T12:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T12:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh wow this is a perfectly-timed post as it&#39;s some...</title><summary type='text'>Oh wow this is a perfectly-timed post as it&#39;s something I just thought about started writing about on my own little bloggy but you&#39;re writing about it from a different angle (lately I&#39;ve been thinking about how most poets I know are undergraduates and how that shapes their poetry, most of their working having been crafted in a classroom environment after all).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But keep writing about this</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784532954898807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784532954898807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167845280000#c116784532954898807' title=''/><author><name>Brooke S. Palmieri</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04070828928473381195</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://www.phillyist.com/attachments/philly_jim/philly_brooke.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1830746086"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784460615788070</id><published>2007-01-03T12:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T12:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear poets seeking a job as professional academic ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear poets seeking a job as professional academic poet,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I love many of you dearly. As an academic myself, I understand the appeal of the wall-clinging ivy, the passionate students, the gym and library access -- indeed, that indefinable social status that comes from being involved in one of the most successful and functional parts of American society.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can&#39;t help thinking, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784460615788070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784460615788070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167844560000#c116784460615788070' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784338960521930</id><published>2007-01-03T11:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T11:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Among other things Ron, your emphatic declaration ...</title><summary type='text'>Among other things Ron, your emphatic declaration today that &quot;poetry is a community&quot; does I infer respond to my implied question yesterday regarding the purpose 60 poets reading for about two minutes each.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your point is a good one.  The MLA off-site mega-reading no doubt had an important social function for poets.   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Still, my point that the brevity of each poet&#39;s readings made </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784338960521930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784338960521930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167843360000#c116784338960521930' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116784262473676931</id><published>2007-01-03T11:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T11:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m applying for the third time to an MFA program ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m applying for the third time to an MFA program (I won&#39;t say which one, though I suppose you could just follow to my blog) and I&#39;ve been wondering what exactly the point is.  I&#39;m getting published without it, so perhaps it&#39;s not quite some important, though even if I don&#39;t end up teaching, it seems as though the MFA opens some doors.  Perhaps this isn&#39;t the way it should be, but it seems to be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784262473676931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116784262473676931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167842580000#c116784262473676931' title=''/><author><name>Amish Trivedi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11839976680249253602</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos.friendster.com/photos/85/22/2562258/25957220760734l.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832955061"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116783963581839235</id><published>2007-01-03T10:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T10:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Barrett Watten sent an email to say: As one who wo...</title><summary type='text'>Barrett Watten sent an email to say: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As one who worked the interview room and reveled in community at MLA, I found merit in Ron&#39;s post. The relation of poetry to academia of course has a long history, beginning with the transformative moment some inspired teacher opened the portals of the imagination (in a scene reproduced many times from the 40s to the 60s) via Shakespeare or &lt;I&gt;The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116783963581839235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116783963581839235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167839580000#c116783963581839235' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116783226204261847</id><published>2007-01-03T08:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T08:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>From Timothy Burke&#39;s blog, Easily Distracted: http...</title><summary type='text'>From Timothy Burke&#39;s blog, Easily Distracted: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/gradschool.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;From The Chronicle of Higher Education: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/06/2003060301c.htm&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;From Confessions of a Community College Dean: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2005/04/how-grad-school-fails-or-playing-well.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116783226204261847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116783226204261847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167832260000#c116783226204261847' 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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-522616634"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782996366918654</id><published>2007-01-03T08:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T08:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, my daughter is in an MFA program.  We talked ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, my daughter is in an MFA program.  We talked a lot about the &#39;economics&#39; of being a poet and she was well aware before she got her undergraduate degree that she would have to do something else to support herself.  She has no desire to teach writing anyway and is thinking about getting certified in ESL.  The program she is in also makes all first year MFA students take a course in the reality</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116782996366918654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116782225792251818/comments/default/116782996366918654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html?showComment=1167829920000#c116782996366918654' title=''/><author><name>tom</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13411377393295873655</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/2007/01/to-accompany-modern-language.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116782225792251818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116782225792251818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-823581444"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2007"/></entry></feed>