<?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.post117049938049289188..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/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.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>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117082581212749519</id><published>2007-02-07T00:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T00:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>TFJ---It&#39;s mystical in the best way, like suicide ...</title><summary type='text'>TFJ---&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s mystical in the best way, like suicide bombing or crucifixion. Or possession trance.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Assertion of personae as a transient locus for archetypal anarchic experiments in becoming the best itself, even if that best-ness is something like the essence of best-ness asymptotically besting its beast, basting in bliss. Bust-\ed.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The rope-a-dope of humbleness, the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117082581212749519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117082581212749519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170825780000#c117082581212749519' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117082479685240806</id><published>2007-02-07T00:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-07T00:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby---the Empson poem you&#39;re thinking of is the ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby---the Empson poem you&#39;re thinking of is the one that starts, &quot;Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. / It is not the effort nor the failure tires. / The waste remains, the waste remains and kills&quot;. It&#39;s a villanelle, one of the four best of the last century (and the most obscure (and (arguably?) by far most Quietudinous, and strange)). (Strangely, I have all four memorized. Perhaps</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117082479685240806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117082479685240806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170824760000#c117082479685240806' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117081482175128724</id><published>2007-02-06T21:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-06T21:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, I&#39;m not sure who I&#39;m arguing with here.  Not...</title><summary type='text'>Well, I&#39;m not sure who I&#39;m arguing with here.  Not you, I guess.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Certainly, there have been writers--and good ones, too--who have had mental illnesses.  James Schuyler was seriously disturbed much of the time, but managed to write some brilliant poems despite this.  There are, also, some of his poems that seem just awful, slack, pointless diary-like entries, which I suspect were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117081482175128724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117081482175128724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170814800000#c117081482175128724' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117080519336890354</id><published>2007-02-06T18:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-06T18:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&gt;. But we don&#39;t much care whether either &gt;man feel...</title><summary type='text'>&gt;. But we don&#39;t much care whether either &gt;man feels some kind of clinical &quot;need&quot; &gt;to have done it in the first place. It &gt;just doesn&#39;t matter&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree, but the writer of the original linked article seems to argue that it does matter. Or, perhaps, that writer would say ETHICALLY a book written out of clinical need is better than one written out of a healthy, flourishing will to power.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117080519336890354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117080519336890354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170805140000#c117080519336890354' title=''/><author><name>The Final Judgment</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15876056244441430371</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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-322183753"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117078903445536373</id><published>2007-02-06T14:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-06T14:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,Yep.</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yep.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117078903445536373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117078903445536373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170789000000#c117078903445536373' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117072730006850654</id><published>2007-02-05T21:01:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-05T21:01:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Judge:I really think this is YOUR hang-up, no...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Judge:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I really think this is YOUR hang-up, not ours.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No one has claimed that writing is some kind of mental compulsion, and even if they had, that&#39;s just another way of saying what you seem to think amounts to the same thing--a desire to make a &quot;subject-driven&quot; statement.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s no meaningful distinction to be made, in the last analysis, between those who </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117072730006850654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117072730006850654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170727260001#c117072730006850654' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117072727413379463</id><published>2007-02-05T21:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-05T21:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the final judgment,Nuh-uh! &quot;Feminizing?&quot; Whoa. And...</title><summary type='text'>the final judgment,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nuh-uh! &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Feminizing?&quot; Whoa. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And &quot;objectiving&quot; isn&#39;t a word.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yeah, it takes will as well. A good deal of it. And it does provide great pleasure, when it goes well. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I also dislike the clinical and mystical aspects, and tried to make a distinction from it (I&#39;m not trying to cope, nor am I being whipped by a cruel muse). And I&#39;m </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117072727413379463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117072727413379463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170727260000#c117072727413379463' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117071474525345356</id><published>2007-02-05T17:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-05T17:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Responses to my comment so far both make the mista...</title><summary type='text'>Responses to my comment so far both make the mistake of the original article. I had trouble specifying it exactly but now I know what it is--feminizing and objectiving the writer. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why are writers so reluctant to have the same subject-centered attitude as professionals or pop stars? I&#39;m sick and tired of artists talking about their &quot;need&quot; or compulsion to doing their art, despite how &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117071474525345356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117071474525345356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170714720000#c117071474525345356' title=''/><author><name>The Final Judgment</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15876056244441430371</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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-322183753"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117070234336254999</id><published>2007-02-05T14:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-05T14:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;The Final Judgment&quot; wrote:&quot;What the &#39;must write&#39; ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;The Final Judgment&quot; wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;What the &#39;must write&#39; category of writers boils down to are the people who are so consumed with despair and neurosis that writing is a form of coping for them.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not so. I don&#39;t write to &quot;cope,&quot; and though I may be a fuckup in some respects, I wouldn&#39;t say at all that I&#39;m &quot;consumed by despair and neurosis.&quot; If I don&#39;t write for awhile, I feel bad, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117070234336254999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117070234336254999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170702300000#c117070234336254999' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117069058622730154</id><published>2007-02-05T10:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-05T10:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, there are no hard and fast truths about why ...</title><summary type='text'>Well, there are no hard and fast truths about why people write--or what the relationship is between the need or desire to write, and the probably quality of what is thus produced.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Many writers of serious fiction and non-fiction will say it is &quot;hard&quot; to write, even when (or if) they churn out a good deal of material.  Many successful writers describe specific habits that &quot;force&quot; them to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117069058622730154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117069058622730154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170690540000#c117069058622730154' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117064419345011263</id><published>2007-02-04T21:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T21:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice blog, well done, you&#39;re linked, thanks!absurd...</title><summary type='text'>Nice blog, well done, you&#39;re linked, thanks!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;absurd thought -&lt;BR/&gt;God of the Universe says&lt;BR/&gt;outlaw political poetry&lt;BR/&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117064419345011263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117064419345011263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170644160000#c117064419345011263' title=''/><author><name>USpace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00786470726332272129</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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-813825771"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117061565391726209</id><published>2007-02-04T14:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T14:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Frost&#39;s resistance to easy categorization has been...</title><summary type='text'>Frost&#39;s resistance to easy categorization has been noted by a number of critics, so Mr Orr isn&#39;t saying anything new. For me, it was Lentricchia&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Modernist Quartet&lt;/I&gt; that pointed out Frost is a very uneasy nature poet who quite consciously wanted to smuggle in a new aesthetic.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117061565391726209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117061565391726209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170615600000#c117061565391726209' title=''/><author><name>Badger</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09185212382660892854</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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1646089390"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117055966093089592</id><published>2007-02-03T22:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T22:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A friend of mine says that every irish person has ...</title><summary type='text'>A friend of mine says that every irish person has at least 5 poems in them to write.  Perhaps everyone wrote their five already?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117055966093089592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117055966093089592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170559620000#c117055966093089592' title=''/><author><name>The Cubicle Reverend</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07698802395603296603</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2612/1188/1600/Feb16%20016.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1565099610"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117054654955839896</id><published>2007-02-03T18:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T18:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Re: &quot;The only people writing should be&quot;I just don&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Re: &quot;The only people writing should be&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I just don&#39;t get this. People do what they do out of a variety of motives. One person might write entirely or mainly for profit, another person entirely or mainly for self-therapy, another entirely or mainly to critique our society, etc. What the &#39;must write&#39; category of writers boils down to are the people who are so consumed with despair and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117054654955839896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117054654955839896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170546540000#c117054654955839896' title=''/><author><name>The Final Judgment</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15876056244441430371</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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-322183753"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117051971657122840</id><published>2007-02-03T11:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T11:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I can&#39;t read the the article on Robert Frost becau...</title><summary type='text'>I can&#39;t read the the article on Robert Frost because the link to it leads to a pay site: the NY Times &quot;Times Select&quot; feature, only available (if not a subscriber to the hard copy Times) for $50 a year. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The &quot;free trial&quot; that is offered ain&#39;t so easy -- you have to hand over all information, including credit card number, which they will use to start charging you (at the higher monthly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117051971657122840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117051971657122840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170519660000#c117051971657122840' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117051787655228132</id><published>2007-02-03T10:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T10:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The article on the Derrida lawsuit is badly done, ...</title><summary type='text'>The article on the Derrida lawsuit is badly done, in part.  It says there is a lawsuit, speculates on the ultimate purpose of the suit, but NEVER just reports the suit&#39;s basis (what facts are alleged and what legal violation is asserted) or what relief is sought (what UC wants the court to do).  These facts should be, and generally are, essential elements any story on a formal lawsuit.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117051787655228132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117051787655228132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170517860000#c117051787655228132' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 03, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117051653873187188</id><published>2007-02-03T10:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-03T10:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anything would be better than the crummy socialist...</title><summary type='text'>Anything would be better than the crummy socialist realist criticism of the last forty years that has wiped out everything else. If the woman is strong and smart and the man is a dipshit it&#39;s a good poem. Empson&#39;s criticism at least has the virtue of telling me something new now and then.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Larry Fagin liked Empson&#39;s poetry, and introduced us to it at Naropa. I particularly remember one </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117051653873187188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/117049938049289188/comments/default/117051653873187188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html?showComment=1170516480000#c117051653873187188' 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/2007/02/frosty-snow-job-whats-wrong-with-irish.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-117049938049289188' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/117049938049289188' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 03, 2007"/></entry></feed>