<?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.post3254276048909344251..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/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/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>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1804070139360626759</id><published>2008-10-03T16:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T16:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks, Steven--While turns may be expected in son...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks, Steven--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;While turns may be expected in sonnets and in many other kinds of poems (though the general lack of discussion of turns in Ron&amp;#39;s post and in this particular comment stream suggest otherwise), really great turns (for me: those that seem simultaneously both fitting and surprising) are still pretty rare, and never stultifying or boring.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Certainly, one could get</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/1804070139360626759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/1804070139360626759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1223064840000#c1804070139360626759' title=''/><author><name>Michael Theune</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08121953357805380434</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-971320363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2398728814160843562</id><published>2008-10-03T16:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T16:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;crustaceous wedge of sweaty kitchens on rock over...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;crustaceous wedge of sweaty kitchens on rock overtopping thrusts of the sea&quot; has lots of torque.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Best of all, it isn&#39;t a sonnet, or a 2 1/2&quot; block of square type, or a set of incremental variations on an infinitely expanding seed phrase.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It grows out of itself through progressive metaphorical suggestion and the sprung qualities inherent in the phonemes of the words in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/2398728814160843562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/2398728814160843562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1223064540000#c2398728814160843562' 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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8580638819022011569</id><published>2008-10-03T14:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T14:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Good friggin&#39; point michael theune.It&#39;s interestin...</title><summary type='text'>Good friggin&#39; point michael theune.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s interesting to think about whether and how the &quot;turn&quot; relates to &quot;torque&quot; in poetry, a concept Ron champions in the so-called new sentence.   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On the other hand, given that a &quot;turn&quot; or &quot;torque&quot; is so commonly expected in a poem or piece thereof, maybe that whole approach has become stultifying for the writer, boring for the reader?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8580638819022011569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8580638819022011569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1223058420000#c8580638819022011569' 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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-130330119819810531</id><published>2008-10-02T00:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-02T00:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What intrigues me about this conversation is that,...</title><summary type='text'>What intrigues me about this conversation is that, though the sonnet is being discussed, there is virtually no discussion of the element of the sonnet that makes it so (potentially) amazing: the volta, the turn.  (T.S. Eliot calls the turn &quot;one of the most important means of poetic effect since Homer.&quot;)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t care what kind of poem I&#39;m reading--SoQ, PA, sonnet, haiku--what I really </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/130330119819810531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/130330119819810531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222921860000#c130330119819810531' title=''/><author><name>Michael Theune</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08121953357805380434</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-971320363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8769191223445546249</id><published>2008-10-01T20:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T20:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I should respond to mark, too: Mark, Reality St sa...</title><summary type='text'>I should respond to mark, too: Mark, Reality St says that the book release is 25 Oct, at the London Small Press Book Fair (which is where I&#39;ll pick up my copy). I&#39;m guessing that the copies you see floating around are review copies.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Speaking of the book fair, is anyone else from &quot;here&quot; going to be &quot;there&quot;? We could say hey or something.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8769191223445546249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8769191223445546249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222907400000#c8769191223445546249' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7430112126855632279</id><published>2008-10-01T19:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T19:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I getcha now. No argument. My only thought...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I getcha now. No argument. My only thoughts are: there&#39;s nothing wrong with form per se as a constraint. That would go for the poets you mention as well as for language poets, or Oulipo ... the proof is in the pudding, as it were, not the recipe. And that if Ron&#39;s &quot;lineage&quot; goes back to Pound, well, Pound lived and we live under the condition known as modernity. Modernism, postmodernism, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7430112126855632279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7430112126855632279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222903560000#c7430112126855632279' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3613427170068063789</id><published>2008-10-01T16:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T16:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>what makes  atkin&#39;s &quot;sonnet&quot; a sonnet?  discuss......</title><summary type='text'>what makes  atkin&#39;s &quot;sonnet&quot; a sonnet?  discuss...(and don&#39;t say &quot;because it&#39;s 14 lines long.  that&#39;s just silly.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/3613427170068063789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/3613427170068063789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222893840000#c3613427170068063789' title=''/><author><name>Name: Matthew Guenette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06901074740673802260</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-188382328"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2446803762787108691</id><published>2008-10-01T14:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T14:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>john b-r, is the &quot;J Clark&quot; you refer to the late J...</title><summary type='text'>john b-r, is the &quot;J Clark&quot; you refer to the late John (Jack) Clarke, author of the contemporary sonnet sequences, &lt;I&gt;The End of This Side&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;In The Analogy&lt;/I&gt;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/2446803762787108691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/2446803762787108691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222886340000#c2446803762787108691' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9057615586991071756</id><published>2008-10-01T14:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T14:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;As I understand it, this anthology is not yet rel...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;As I understand it, this anthology is not yet released. I will buy a copy the day I can get my hands on one.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Funny, I just bought a secondhand copy from Amazon. Here&#39;s the email for the seller, Philip Youren: secondhand.gower@btconnect.com&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I actually agree with what Joseph Hutchison said, but, Ron&#39;s plucked , wingless example aside, I am fascinated by the form in its many </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/9057615586991071756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/9057615586991071756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222885800000#c9057615586991071756' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5698719898105144636</id><published>2008-10-01T13:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T13:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>forget all this sonnet stuff, when did eleni start...</title><summary type='text'>forget all this sonnet stuff, when did eleni start using the accents on her last name?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/5698719898105144636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/5698719898105144636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222883700000#c5698719898105144636' title=''/><author><name>John Sakkis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08621102858745971700</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_rfsalgj4DoA/SIEsiI0nj3I/AAAAAAAACb4/9G1aAMb9Rj0/S220/model+crap.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1144833194"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7163473669292299261</id><published>2008-10-01T12:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T12:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>john b-r:My problem isn&#39;t with Ron&#39;s work per se, ...</title><summary type='text'>john b-r:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My problem isn&#39;t with Ron&#39;s work per se, which I have always enjoyed--all the way back to his roots and beginnings as a wee disciple of Duncan and Kelly and Spicer. It&#39;s with the critical dilemma he repeatedly gets tangled up in by dividing literature into huge discrete camps.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Since he started the Alphabet, Ron&#39;s program has been to propose rigid new formal </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7163473669292299261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7163473669292299261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222877820000#c7163473669292299261' 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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1678692830377470269</id><published>2008-10-01T11:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T11:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To define the contemporary sonnet by the definitio...</title><summary type='text'>To define the contemporary sonnet by the definition appropriate to he soonet of 100 or 500 years ago is just plain silly. I think Ron is absolutely right here. And so is Hilson. And so is Atkins. It strikes me as absolutely reasonable to consider the constraint nature of form as primary. Though I would dare to say that to accuse anyone of &quot;filling out&quot; the form instead of making use of it as a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/1678692830377470269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/1678692830377470269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222873680000#c1678692830377470269' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2590394483652758059</id><published>2008-10-01T09:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T09:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;are you serious? is this a joke?&quot;Isn&#39;t that the s...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;are you serious? is this a joke?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Isn&#39;t that the standard 18-year-old response to any kind of writing that&#39;s even mildly different from the boring books they read in high school?  I was a complete idiot at that age.  I&#39;m glad I learned to move beyond my initial &quot;hunches&quot; (prejudices) and give this new poetry stuff a chance.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Anyway, I like jokes.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/2590394483652758059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/2590394483652758059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222867500000#c2590394483652758059' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SKc8UMRiyeI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/mInUuxveZbU/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1100715109365737392</id><published>2008-10-01T06:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T06:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i&#39;ve been showing poems like the sonnet by t. atki...</title><summary type='text'>i&#39;ve been showing poems like the sonnet by t. atkins to my intro to poetry students for 13 years.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i don&#39;t poison the well.  i don&#39;t say anything in advance.  i&#39;m genuinely curious as to what they&#39;ll think...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and what they think almost always: &quot;are you serious?  is this a joke?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when it comes to intuition, a hunch, can ALL those students--even if they haven&#39;t read much </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/1100715109365737392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/1100715109365737392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222856100000#c1100715109365737392' title=''/><author><name>Name: Matthew Guenette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06901074740673802260</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-188382328"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3853687910582337659</id><published>2008-09-30T23:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T23:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>SOQ ain&#39;t always so quiet, now, is it, Ron?</title><summary type='text'>SOQ ain&#39;t always so quiet, now, is it, Ron?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/3853687910582337659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/3853687910582337659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222830780000#c3853687910582337659' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7115394940698413379</id><published>2008-09-30T22:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T22:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Did they remember this guy?when serpents bargain f...</title><summary type='text'>Did they remember this guy?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when serpents bargain for the right to squirm&lt;BR/&gt;and the sun strikes to gain a living wage-&lt;BR/&gt;when thorns regard their roses with alarm&lt;BR/&gt;and rainbows are insured against old age&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when every thrush may sing no new moon in&lt;BR/&gt;if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice&lt;BR/&gt;-and any wave signs on the dotted line&lt;BR/&gt;or else an ocean is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7115394940698413379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7115394940698413379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222828920000#c7115394940698413379' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6264624548622453604</id><published>2008-09-30T19:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T19:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To restate:Supposing we were to put before the wri...</title><summary type='text'>To restate:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Supposing we were to put before the writer the task of making a prose sequence in which the &quot;sentence&quot; units underwent syntactic &quot;mutations&quot;--as in your Ketjak--with the repetition and occurrence being at predictable (set) intervals.  Revolving door.  The revolving door&#39;s recurrence would be a key to the methodology.  But the formal constraints implied by this methodology </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/6264624548622453604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/6264624548622453604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222815720000#c6264624548622453604' 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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4627828389399685709</id><published>2008-09-30T18:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T18:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice review of an exciting-looking publication. Bu...</title><summary type='text'>Nice review of an exciting-looking publication. But I would like to raise a point of information. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You say Hilson has included writers &amp;#39;from five nations: the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia &amp;amp; New Zealand&amp;#39;.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But Maurice Scully is Irish. (It could be argued in fact that his &amp;#39;Irishness&amp;#39; is somewhat central to his writing). We in the Republic of Ireland are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/4627828389399685709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/4627828389399685709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222815060000#c4627828389399685709' title=''/><author><name>Forum</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04715518962037611754</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1132039429"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3588677311579763232</id><published>2008-09-30T18:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T18:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed:I like &quot;an English Rifle-Sonnet&quot;!!</title><summary type='text'>Ed:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like &quot;an English Rifle-Sonnet&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;!!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/3588677311579763232'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/3588677311579763232'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222814880000#c3588677311579763232' 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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8152152007727727874</id><published>2008-09-30T18:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T18:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s not true about the University Wits, Ron. Do...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s not true about the University Wits, Ron. Do you ever lose sleep about these distortions?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8152152007727727874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8152152007727727874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222812780000#c8152152007727727874' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7052127969783082728</id><published>2008-09-30T13:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T13:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>fullmoonhalfmoonsimultaneous-lyits dichotomynext t...</title><summary type='text'>full&lt;BR/&gt;moon&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;half&lt;BR/&gt;moon&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;simultaneous-ly&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;its dichotomy&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;next thing u&#39;ll be tellin&#39; me is that&lt;BR/&gt;these &#39;sonnets&#39; are &quot;snap-shots&quot; (hard-edged images)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;rats in my wood-pile&lt;BR/&gt;this old pellet-gun&lt;BR/&gt;not power/full enough&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;WEBLEY VULCAN: an English Rifle-Sonnet</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7052127969783082728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7052127969783082728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222795260000#c7052127969783082728' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5752134222567614126</id><published>2008-09-30T12:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T12:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>the rhythm&#39;s sprungand sung and sungoff the impass...</title><summary type='text'>the rhythm&#39;s sprung&lt;BR/&gt;and sung and sung&lt;BR/&gt;off the impassioned tongue&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i iz interested here&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;j</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/5752134222567614126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/5752134222567614126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222792680000#c5752134222567614126' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7683828843858861944</id><published>2008-09-30T12:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T12:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sonnet #F.!:.,=$&amp;amp;@?+.y?</title><summary type='text'>Sonnet #F&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;!&lt;BR/&gt;:&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;,&lt;BR/&gt;=&lt;BR/&gt;$&lt;BR/&gt;&amp;amp;&lt;BR/&gt;@&lt;BR/&gt;?&lt;BR/&gt;+&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;y&lt;BR/&gt;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7683828843858861944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/7683828843858861944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222791060000#c7683828843858861944' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6531069441235189432</id><published>2008-09-30T11:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T11:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>...oink.......is not asonnetartist?!</title><summary type='text'>...oink&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;is not a&lt;BR/&gt;sonnet&lt;BR/&gt;art&lt;BR/&gt;ist&lt;BR/&gt;?&lt;BR/&gt;!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/6531069441235189432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/6531069441235189432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222789680000#c6531069441235189432' title=''/><author><name>Tim Atkins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14649560712635222254</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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2123854090"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8503472226718108935</id><published>2008-09-30T11:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T11:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Sonnet.Well, saying that anything 14 lines lon...</title><summary type='text'>The Sonnet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, saying that anything 14 lines long is a sonnet sort of begs the question, doesn&#39;t it, Ron?  Is a mere dot, or period, a &quot;line&quot;?  I don&#39;t think so.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The point about sonnets isn&#39;t the square, predictable box with square, predictable contents, but the notion that a poem of a certain length, and of a certain persuasion of mind, was a convenient form.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8503472226718108935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3254276048909344251/comments/default/8503472226718108935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html?showComment=1222789560000#c8503472226718108935' 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/2008/09/jeff-hilsons-new-anthology-reality.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3254276048909344251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3254276048909344251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 30, 2008"/></entry></feed>