<?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.post2499898924913389660..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/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3419684099799771775</id><published>2010-07-19T19:04:42.256-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T19:04:42.256-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Jeez Ry, quite a lot of rambling.  Chomsky hardly ...</title><summary type='text'>Jeez Ry, quite a lot of rambling.  Chomsky hardly presents a coherent ...ontology--while I would agree Chomsky  made some important criticisms of Skinner and Quine (if somewhat superficial ), he doesn&amp;#39;t really justify his own pseudo-cartesian views and universal grammar. Neither a Chomsky or Skinner be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m for rationalism, and generally opposed to Quinean Uncle-Meat </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3419684099799771775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3419684099799771775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279580682256#c3419684099799771775' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6233290212788130842</id><published>2010-07-19T18:08:34.542-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T18:08:34.542-04:00</updated><title type='text'>so&#xa;&#xa;if I got &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; a-specific:&#xa;&#xa;not to go...</title><summary type='text'>so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;if I got &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; a-specific:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not to go (in &amp;#39;art&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;poetry&amp;#39;, &amp;#39;philosophy&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when creating a piece&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;not from  concrete to imagination&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but, just the opposite:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from the Imagination to the  Concrete.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;maybe one should &amp;quot;trip&amp;quot; into Mexico with Artaud?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;say  a visit into The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/6233290212788130842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/6233290212788130842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279577314542#c6233290212788130842' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7467215814681385486</id><published>2010-07-19T15:07:54.019-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T15:07:54.019-04:00</updated><title type='text'>jeez J&#xa;&#xa;I am aware of all the stuff you mentioned....</title><summary type='text'>jeez J&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am aware of all the stuff you mentioned. Wittgenstein made a big turnaround though. Wittgenstein&amp;#39;s language philosophy is far more behavioristic/externalist than say a chomskyian/rationalist approach to language. what are you talking about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and most of his followers are thoroughly materialist/externalist/extensionist or whatever: language-games into derrida&amp;#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7467215814681385486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7467215814681385486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279566474019#c7467215814681385486' title=''/><author><name>Ry</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175809969730449639</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cw_VYGRm1-w/S_GZ_wTu5FI/AAAAAAAAACI/IU_I3_K_gXg/S220/swirlermarx6.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1375212339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772645321123598423</id><published>2010-07-19T12:58:25.445-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T12:58:25.445-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why not read the Philosophical Investigations or T...</title><summary type='text'>Why not read the Philosophical Investigations or Tractatus itself?  Not that difficult (well, Witt&amp;#39;s odd use of tautology in the TLP is a bit..odd), compared to say Hegel&amp;#39;s Logick, or Plato&amp;#39;s Republic for that matter.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Besides any &amp;quot;poet&amp;quot; who praises &amp;quot;rational scientific whatever&amp;quot; and tosses the greeks and latin scribes (or all french philosophers for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/2772645321123598423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/2772645321123598423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279558705445#c2772645321123598423' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7247415470134378456</id><published>2010-07-19T11:57:50.809-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T11:57:50.809-04:00</updated><title type='text'>try this book.. &amp;quot;Introducing Wittgenstein&amp;quo...</title><summary type='text'>try this book.. &amp;quot;Introducing Wittgenstein&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510W8AQ3X1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a BARGIN via amazon and &lt;br /&gt;v e r y accurate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and  as &lt;br /&gt;Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (once) said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Totem has an whole series of these books   &lt;br /&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7247415470134378456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7247415470134378456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279555070809#c7247415470134378456' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3164035289427948210</id><published>2010-07-18T15:40:15.092-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T15:40:15.092-04:00</updated><title type='text'>so the Ryster, given his praise of &amp;quot;rationali...</title><summary type='text'>so the Ryster, given his praise of &amp;quot;rationalist scientists of language&amp;quot; and detestation of philosophy would prefer say a strictly Darwinian school of poetics--? or maybe BF Skinner operant conditioning....  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PB Shelley, falling upon the thorns of life and...bleeding! definitely improper conditioning....emotional disorder..PBS obviously needed some proper reinforcement-ware to</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3164035289427948210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3164035289427948210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279482015092#c3164035289427948210' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2197650520708167396</id><published>2010-07-18T13:42:25.351-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T13:42:25.351-04:00</updated><title type='text'>nada,&#xa;&#xa;all philosophy, in my reading, is BS. i gue...</title><summary type='text'>nada,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all philosophy, in my reading, is BS. i guess i get the feeling that, after nosing around english departments and such, poststructuralism is absolute truth to some (which is kinda a contradction). i think people just like to look at french pseudo-philosophers in B&amp;amp;W photos and think they are &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot; and therefore good at philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and wittgenstein is a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/2197650520708167396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/2197650520708167396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279474945351#c2197650520708167396' title=''/><author><name>Ry</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175809969730449639</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cw_VYGRm1-w/S_GZ_wTu5FI/AAAAAAAAACI/IU_I3_K_gXg/S220/swirlermarx6.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1375212339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4154207542665764572</id><published>2010-07-17T11:49:59.033-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T11:49:59.033-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading Cole&amp;#39;s poem and trying to &amp;quot;connec...</title><summary type='text'>Reading Cole&amp;#39;s poem and trying to &amp;quot;connect the dots,&amp;quot; as Curtis put it, I was reminded of Ashbery: it resists explication, but there are repetitions, motifs, suggestions that some pattern was intended. Pearls are obviously related to starfish, and fog to a film of dust, and a film of dust to an eclipse. (Work eclipses life the way dust eclipses leaves.) We eat pearls and we eat dust</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/4154207542665764572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/4154207542665764572'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279381799033#c4154207542665764572' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/S6fjRg-MVRI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-66g7EaCfIY/S220/David_and_Robbie_portrait%5B2%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 17, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1689972337274897805</id><published>2010-07-17T09:05:22.110-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T09:05:22.110-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apparently Ginsberg became himself early, in the E...</title><summary type='text'>Apparently Ginsberg became himself early, in the Empty Mirror period, the late 40s. &amp;quot;Hymn&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Paterson&amp;quot; are very &amp;quot;Howl&amp;quot;-like. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I almost wrote that G. went straight from stuff like &amp;quot;Or did the laughng lamb embolden/ To loll where has the lion lain&amp;quot; to the Howlishness of &amp;quot;Hymn&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Paterson,&amp;quot; but then I remembered those poems</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/1689972337274897805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/1689972337274897805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279371922110#c1689972337274897805' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/S6fjRg-MVRI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-66g7EaCfIY/S220/David_and_Robbie_portrait%5B2%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 17, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8973259133994210460</id><published>2010-07-16T17:12:38.964-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T17:12:38.964-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pollack: derogatory term for an abstract expressio...</title><summary type='text'>Pollack: derogatory term for an abstract expressionist?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this site could use some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/chupacabra-pictures-texas_n_646379.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chupacabras&lt;/a&gt;. Chupie-Ode. ahyeahh</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/8973259133994210460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/8973259133994210460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279314758964#c8973259133994210460' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5279777187352603319</id><published>2010-07-16T16:53:44.171-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T16:53:44.171-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apologies to Sydney Pollack and all others with th...</title><summary type='text'>Apologies to Sydney Pollack and all others with that surname, but the painter is Pollock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It drives me nuts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We should all know how to spell the names of those we reference. I&amp;#39;m sure that Mr. Percasso would agree.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/5279777187352603319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/5279777187352603319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279313624171#c5279777187352603319' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12096685990751580031</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J9N1PbDDQYo/S9hvqt3N1qI/AAAAAAAAAAM/cZoIoWD1k-U/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-413633620"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6890851570505826481</id><published>2010-07-16T16:15:40.772-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T16:15:40.772-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks Steven, and Thanks Gary, for these necessar...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks Steven, and Thanks Gary, for these necessary clarifications!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/6890851570505826481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/6890851570505826481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279311340772#c6890851570505826481' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4724581501167332115</id><published>2010-07-16T14:30:34.400-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T14:30:34.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/4724581501167332115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/4724581501167332115'/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12096685990751580031</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J9N1PbDDQYo/S9hvqt3N1qI/AAAAAAAAAAM/cZoIoWD1k-U/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-413633620"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3637701416704905943</id><published>2010-07-16T14:25:16.730-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T14:25:16.730-04:00</updated><title type='text'>well&#xa;to be absolutely accurate&#xa;&#xa;it is&#xa;&#xa;The Nationa...</title><summary type='text'>well&lt;br /&gt;to be absolutely accurate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The National Gallery of Art  not&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as you have it  &amp;quot;the National Art Gallery&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just as it is NOT the Smitsonian Museum of Natural History&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;rather&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IT is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Smithsonian Institution&amp;#39;s Museum of Natural History&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;nor is it The Smithsonian INSTITUTE...&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3637701416704905943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3637701416704905943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279304716730#c3637701416704905943' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1686861727785915555</id><published>2010-07-16T14:22:20.401-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T14:22:20.401-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve,you are quite right. I was thinking of the w...</title><summary type='text'>Steve,you are quite right. I was thinking of the work &amp;amp; visualizing Bill Luoma&amp;#39;s cover for the collection called (R). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/1686861727785915555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/1686861727785915555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279304540401#c1686861727785915555' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7355951341798781881</id><published>2010-07-16T13:38:11.319-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T13:38:11.319-04:00</updated><title type='text'>most poetics of your generation falls under which ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;i&gt;most poetics of your generation falls under which is basically riding the wake of wittgenstein and derrida- both of which are questionable philosophies that are more popular than valid.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heh. Ryster with some cutting-edge philosophastry!  I doubt one out of 50 of the &amp;quot;poets&amp;quot; around here&amp;#39;s even made it through the cliffsnotes to St Ludwig&amp;#39;s Phil. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7355951341798781881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7355951341798781881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279301891319#c7355951341798781881' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8922144751359063869</id><published>2010-07-16T11:44:39.786-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T11:44:39.786-04:00</updated><title type='text'>With regard to the poem in The Alphabet that uses ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;With regard to the poem in &lt;i&gt;The Alphabet&lt;/i&gt; that uses rhyme, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m pretty sure Ron meant to type &lt;i&gt;Quindecagon&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;quot; not &lt;i&gt;(R)&lt;/i&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/8922144751359063869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/8922144751359063869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279295079786#c8922144751359063869' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7622087972226617999</id><published>2010-07-16T11:38:54.297-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T11:38:54.297-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Written in rhyme?&#xa;&#xa;If it is, it must be well-disgu...</title><summary type='text'>Written in rhyme?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it is, it must be well-disguised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Social formalism&amp;quot; would need some fine-tuning in the definition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seem to recall your needling the &amp;quot;new formalists&amp;quot; in the past.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, hey, we both know formalism--as a term--can be applied to anything.  Form=structure.  The whole universe, and everything in it, is a form.&lt;br </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7622087972226617999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7622087972226617999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279294734297#c7622087972226617999' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3172366588470225106</id><published>2010-07-16T11:20:59.136-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T11:20:59.136-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Since I have said or written more than once that l...</title><summary type='text'>Since I have said or written more than once that language poetry would be more accurately called &amp;quot;social formalism,&amp;quot; it stands to reason that I don&amp;#39;t per se complain about formalism. I do periodically kvetch about mere received pattern being elevated to that level. If you read &lt;i&gt;The Alphabet&lt;/i&gt;, you will note that &lt;i&gt;(R)&lt;/i&gt; is written in rhyme.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3172366588470225106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/3172366588470225106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279293659136#c3172366588470225106' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1038313884979985020</id><published>2010-07-16T10:10:12.265-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T10:10:12.265-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;It stops being about grappling with the medi...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;It stops being about grappling with the medium and instead becomes a question of the choices one makes.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the grappling stops, so does the invention.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/1038313884979985020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/1038313884979985020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279289412265#c1038313884979985020' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5152635476624071701</id><published>2010-07-16T10:08:19.402-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T10:08:19.402-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When Ron complains about formalism, he disses the ...</title><summary type='text'>When Ron complains about formalism, he disses the thought and technical tricks as boring and weak.  That&amp;#39;s fine--most ambitious stabs at rationality fail. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But when he tries to compliment a poem filled with non sequiturs and irrational metaphors and puerile little turns, he waxes about its glorious invention.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no rational way to &amp;quot;connect&amp;quot; the dots in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/5152635476624071701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/5152635476624071701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279289299402#c5152635476624071701' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2029357244137100804</id><published>2010-07-16T07:46:11.175-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T07:46:11.175-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ry, is there a philosophy that is not &amp;quot;questi...</title><summary type='text'>Ry, is there a philosophy that is not &amp;quot;questionable&amp;quot;?  Or that is &amp;quot;valid&amp;quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/2029357244137100804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/2029357244137100804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279280771175#c2029357244137100804' title=''/><author><name>Nada Gordon:  2 ludic 4 U</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01448534316756256503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X-R2gU6jEQU/SchM7MkzE2I/AAAAAAAAAXY/d4U3BdcAh30/s1600-R/3371332775_79e8b4eb4f_s.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1564832188"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7312141348014026969</id><published>2010-07-16T05:05:44.123-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T05:05:44.123-04:00</updated><title type='text'>essen and shet&#xa;and then tête&#xa;and fessin&amp;#39;&#xa;&#xa;a ro...</title><summary type='text'>essen and shet&lt;br /&gt;and then tête&lt;br /&gt;and fessin&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a room adjoining sonos&lt;br /&gt;to the determined face&lt;br /&gt;ascending its&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;case of stares&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;space is &lt;br /&gt;enough of a critic&lt;br /&gt;for all &lt;br /&gt;the endeavors at &lt;br /&gt;once and time&lt;br /&gt;they remain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inca mummies</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7312141348014026969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7312141348014026969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279271144123#c7312141348014026969' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7046313933424436996</id><published>2010-07-15T21:15:59.456-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T21:15:59.456-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kind of reminds me of the later poems of Sylvia Pl...</title><summary type='text'>Kind of reminds me of the later poems of Sylvia Plath.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7046313933424436996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/7046313933424436996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279242959456#c7046313933424436996' title=''/><author><name>xenopoeta</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02445979562956581155</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-493842502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 15, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6646797958228329308</id><published>2010-07-15T20:42:42.009-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T20:42:42.009-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Presumption or deduction of authorial intent is no...</title><summary type='text'>Presumption or deduction of authorial intent is not required; a passive voice will do:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;This poem took my breath away when I first read it. Its tone reflects total confidence &lt;b&gt;in its&lt;/b&gt; language. &lt;b&gt;However&lt;/b&gt; ungainly &lt;b&gt;or&lt;/b&gt; proselike that truncated &lt;i&gt;or Paris&lt;/i&gt; looks&lt;b&gt;, in&lt;/b&gt; fact that is precisely &lt;b&gt;what is needed,&lt;/b&gt; something to offset the starfish magic, to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/6646797958228329308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2499898924913389660/comments/default/6646797958228329308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html?showComment=1279240962009#c6646797958228329308' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</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/2010/07/when-does-master-poet-achieve-that.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2499898924913389660' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2499898924913389660' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 15, 2010"/></entry></feed>