<?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.post394387820688221970..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/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/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>29</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6478354021058863706</id><published>2008-10-31T11:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T11:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel:  I think your editorial &quot;we&quot; is a major pr...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel:  I think your editorial &quot;we&quot; is a major presumption here.  Just who else do you think you&#39;re representing, except your own officious self?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/6478354021058863706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/6478354021058863706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225468380000#c6478354021058863706' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-425548446843138880</id><published>2008-10-30T00:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-30T00:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So do we!</title><summary type='text'>So do we!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/425548446843138880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/425548446843138880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225340040000#c425548446843138880' title=''/><author><name>Daniel E. Pritchard</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7sPnkNOxvO8/SGmGcCgxysI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cNo_Qb4PqsE/s1600-R/gse_multipart17382.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6986891291435914130</id><published>2008-10-29T11:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T11:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The internet is a useful place for disseminating i...</title><summary type='text'>The internet is a useful place for disseminating information, and for making short, sometimes effective, often controversial, statements about anything under the sun.  It&#39;s a new medium, with its own potentials and liabilities.  It&#39;s very efficient, and rapid, and fluid.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It isn&#39;t particularly well-suited to serious, lengthy, carefully constructed argument(s).  That&#39;s an inherent </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/6986891291435914130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/6986891291435914130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225295340000#c6986891291435914130' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5725301557225302203</id><published>2008-10-28T10:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T10:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was taking your word that you&#39;d had an email exc...</title><summary type='text'>I was taking your word that you&#39;d had an email exchange -- didn&#39;t you post it right here?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Daniel&#39;s initial post was spontaneous, with all the riskiness and lack-of-reflection that one sees in such moments. I also see much in it which is sensible alert to a resemblance to Ashbery&#39;s non-denotative writing in certain kinds of political speech. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;ve said that you don&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/5725301557225302203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/5725301557225302203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225204440000#c5725301557225302203' title=''/><author><name>CivilizeMe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='29' src='http://people.bu.edu/zakbos/img/looking.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-824652493"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1259730204356620780</id><published>2008-10-27T20:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T20:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>By the way, civilizeme, how would you know whether...</title><summary type='text'>By the way, civilizeme, how would you know whether or not I&#39;d actually had an e.mail exchange with Pritchard?  Do you assume I didn&#39;t?  Would you take his word for it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hmmm.  You might be surprised.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1259730204356620780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1259730204356620780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225154040000#c1259730204356620780' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-369145333932976852</id><published>2008-10-27T20:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T20:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually, civilizeme, Daniel has made every show o...</title><summary type='text'>Actually, civilizeme, Daniel has made every show of not wanting to engage me seriously.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There was nothing serious about his original post.  It was just a shot across the bow, and deserved to be responded to in that spirit.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As I think I&#39;ve pointed out numerous times, I don&#39;t regard blog boxes as appropriate venues for serious, extended discussion regarding the literary </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/369145333932976852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/369145333932976852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225153860000#c369145333932976852' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1174762313971237420</id><published>2008-10-26T19:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-26T19:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually, Curtis, Daniel has made every show of wa...</title><summary type='text'>Actually, Curtis, Daniel has made every show of wanting to engage you seriously.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let&#39;s drop the wounded posture, and say something more substantative. I for one, as I&#39;ve written above and elsewhere, see much that is agreeably paradigm-questioning in DP&#39;s original assertion.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1174762313971237420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1174762313971237420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1225063320000#c1174762313971237420' title=''/><author><name>CivilizeMe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='29' src='http://people.bu.edu/zakbos/img/looking.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-824652493"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1697151045926614973</id><published>2008-10-25T19:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T19:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ted:  E.mail me offline and we can discuss this aw...</title><summary type='text'>Ted:  E.mail me offline and we can discuss this away from Silliman&#39;s box.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Complex doesn&#39;t mean unambiguously favorable, by any means.  Oversimplification is usually not very useful in arts criticism, except as a form of entertainment in itself (i.e., Mencken, or Kenner, et al.).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s okay to use stun guns when dog-fighting online, but to pretend that such hijinks are serious</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1697151045926614973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1697151045926614973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224978600000#c1697151045926614973' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6569383495640292442</id><published>2008-10-25T08:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T08:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Granted you may have a complex response to Ashbery...</title><summary type='text'>Granted you may have a complex response to Ashbery&#39;s work, but I doubt it&#39;s beyond your skill to have given a cogent defense to Pritchard&#39;s address without the personal attacks. Why you like Ashbery will remain a mystery.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/6569383495640292442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/6569383495640292442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224937380000#c6569383495640292442' title=''/><author><name>TED BURKE</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/SJMSub4quHI/AAAAAAAABc4/788h-QVAwxk/S220/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4001997154605906351</id><published>2008-10-24T11:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T11:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ted:  It was Pritchard who was mean-spirited.You s...</title><summary type='text'>Ted:  It was Pritchard who was mean-spirited.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You say &quot;if blog boxes are the appropriate place to explain at length&quot;--is that what you meant to say?  It&#39;s not what I said.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Serious discussions or essays may be posted by bloggers.  The web is filled with them.  They cover a broad range of topic.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Comment boxes aren&#39;t appropriate for making extended statements and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/4001997154605906351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/4001997154605906351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224861180000#c4001997154605906351' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2537507028740528338</id><published>2008-10-24T08:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T08:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis: if blog boxes are the appropiate place to ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis: if blog boxes are the appropiate place to explain at length why you won&#39;t refute the points in Pritchard&#39;s statements, then it most certainly is an appropiate arena to dig in and make your counter assertion.The time that got wasted was the effort it took for  you to refuse to answer him, on topic, on his points. One is  curious why you won&#39;t engage the subject--the worth of Ashbery&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/2537507028740528338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/2537507028740528338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224852480000#c2537507028740528338' title=''/><author><name>TED BURKE</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/SJMSub4quHI/AAAAAAAABc4/788h-QVAwxk/S220/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7935063208137542492</id><published>2008-10-23T22:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T22:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ted:  I won&#39;t dignify Pritchard&#39;s piece by going t...</title><summary type='text'>Ted:  I won&#39;t dignify Pritchard&#39;s piece by going to the trouble to dissect his misconceptions one by one, because they don&#39;t merit that attention.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His post was an embarrassment--to him, and to his employer, and to anyone who might have been sharing his prejudices.  Its tone was snide and uninformed.  It played off of coarse vague impressions and used concepts the way that propagandists </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/7935063208137542492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/7935063208137542492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224815040000#c7935063208137542492' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1693661570914865833</id><published>2008-10-23T14:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T14:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, perhaps you should respond to Daniel Pritc...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, perhaps you should respond to Daniel Pritchard rather than react; you can make a sound defense of Ashbery against the negative remarks without the personal digs. They don&#39;t strenghthen your case.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1693661570914865833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1693661570914865833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224784920000#c1693661570914865833' title=''/><author><name>TED BURKE</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/SJMSub4quHI/AAAAAAAABc4/788h-QVAwxk/S220/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2743859594124656057</id><published>2008-10-23T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>re: &quot;going underground.&quot; Robert Pinsky dipped into...</title><summary type='text'>re: &quot;going underground.&quot; Robert Pinsky &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.fray.slate.com/discuss/forums/thread/1928487.aspx&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;dipped into the Fray&lt;/A&gt; ealier this month at Slate, and among other threads of discussion, he offered that there&#39;s a certain desirable something about going unmasked. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anonymity is suitable for anti-fascist revolution, etc., less so for literary discussion.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/2743859594124656057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/2743859594124656057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224783120000#c2743859594124656057' title=''/><author><name>CivilizeMe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='29' src='http://people.bu.edu/zakbos/img/looking.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-824652493"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1665648495481609244</id><published>2008-10-23T13:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T13:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not convinced that it was an embarassment, CF ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not convinced that it was an embarassment, CF -- though your hostility does move more in that direction.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As I understand him, Daniel is painting Ashbery in broad strokes, in such as a way as to characterize the primary differences in his (post-1975) mode and other prevailing compositional methods. In strokes as coarse, or as schematic, you pick, as Ron Silliman discusses the School </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1665648495481609244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1665648495481609244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224782160000#c1665648495481609244' title=''/><author><name>CivilizeMe</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='29' src='http://people.bu.edu/zakbos/img/looking.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-824652493"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3833188744854628725</id><published>2008-10-23T11:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T11:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Pritchard:You deleted my originial post, and t...</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Pritchard:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You deleted my originial post, and then attempted to imply that you had done so because its content was &quot;objectionable.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your response, on your site, was as follows:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Curtis F: If you&#39;d like to send me an email, I&#39;m happy to address your concerns. Thanks.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, in case it wasn&#39;t patently clear, I am moderating the discussion here </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/3833188744854628725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/3833188744854628725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224774660000#c3833188744854628725' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1906532655514442883</id><published>2008-10-23T00:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-23T00:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis: As I requested in my initial response, you...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis: As I requested in my initial response, you could have emailed me to see what I found objectionable in this comment, changed that, and been posted just fine. How quickly cool heads find their demise! I&#39;ve responded at my site, though, if you care to come on back and see it. We don&#39;t bite, I promise.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1906532655514442883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/1906532655514442883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224735240000#c1906532655514442883' title=''/><author><name>Daniel E. Pritchard</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7sPnkNOxvO8/SGmGcCgxysI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cNo_Qb4PqsE/s1600-R/gse_multipart17382.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-423084205804776542</id><published>2008-10-22T12:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T12:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Nobel carries extra-literary qualities.  Winne...</title><summary type='text'>The Nobel carries extra-literary qualities.  Winners have tended to be writers who display some characteristic &quot;ethnic&quot; or &quot;national&quot; or socio-political baggage.  &quot;Global&quot; probably doesn&#39;t get it.  A minor Eastern European novelist with ethnic preoccupations probably has a better chance at getting it than a major experimental one in America.  Many of them have gone to provincials (i.e., </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/423084205804776542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/423084205804776542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224694260000#c423084205804776542' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9034639253538574191</id><published>2008-10-22T10:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T10:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Although Mr. Pritchard claims that &quot;debate is the ...</title><summary type='text'>Although Mr. Pritchard claims that &quot;debate is the objective of all this, and as anyone will tell you I&#39;m happy to engage,&quot; in actuality he is afraid of disagreement, as his refusal to post my reply on his discussion box proves.  Here, for those interested, is what I sent him yesterday, in its entirety:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;__________&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Daniel: &lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;I found your reading of Ashbery quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/9034639253538574191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/9034639253538574191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224687240000#c9034639253538574191' 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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5378042422913583668</id><published>2008-10-21T11:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T11:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hollo&#39;s work isn&#39;t well-known in Finland. His fath...</title><summary type='text'>Hollo&#39;s work isn&#39;t well-known in Finland. His father was a prominent translator, and his brother is on the Supreme Court. But Finnish literature isn&#39;t well-known in Europe, either.  The French are translating a lot of Finns, but the Swedes and Finns have a strong rivalry. Only one Finn ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature: Frans Sillanpaa, who wrote a kind of realism about the salt of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/5378042422913583668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/5378042422913583668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224604620000#c5378042422913583668' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8178447596163746059</id><published>2008-10-21T01:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T01:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Mister SillymanJames Connolly said in 1907 Ne...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Mister Sillyman&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;James Connolly said in 1907 New York when launching his book of ballads &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&quot;No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/8178447596163746059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/8178447596163746059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224567120000#c8178447596163746059' title=''/><author><name>Background Artist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n244/scalljah/meblue.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1154523763"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9063682511285881700</id><published>2008-10-21T00:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T00:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the link to the Delany review.  I&#39;ve re...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the link to the Delany review.  I&#39;ve read lots of Delany, but not &lt;I&gt;The Ballad of Beta-2&lt;/I&gt;. It sounds like a fun book to hunt down in used bookstores or possibly on line.  I just found out that Rain Taxi is sponsoring an appearance by Samuel R. Delany at the Walker Art Center on November 15 at 2pm in conjunction with the exhibition &lt;I&gt;Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis&lt;/I&gt;.  I&amp;#</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/9063682511285881700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/9063682511285881700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224564480000#c9063682511285881700' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</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/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4091216885435589764</id><published>2008-10-20T22:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T22:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Nobel originally wanted an &#39;idealist&#39; award, a...</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Nobel originally wanted an &#39;idealist&#39; award, and promoting Ashbery as a laureate candidate makes issue of his anti-idealism, or anti-idealist ideal, a question parallel to Mr. Prichard&#39;s stumbling into a sweeping, unsupported dismissal of the stylistic foundations of Langpo and modernist poetry.  As it happens, Nobel-land has a problem with poetic modernism... they&#39;ve maintained a traditional</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/4091216885435589764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/4091216885435589764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224556380000#c4091216885435589764' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4763557679374772290</id><published>2008-10-20T20:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T20:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The last ten seconds of the Corso film show the Bo...</title><summary type='text'>The last ten seconds of the Corso film show the Boulderado Apartments where all the faculty and students stayed in 1979.  Corso wrecked his room I think I remember.  He&#39;s a terrible reader of his own poems.  O&#39;Hara also was a terrible reader of his own poems.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In Czechoslovakia I was told that no poet ever reads their own poems. They always hire an actor to do it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That makes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/4763557679374772290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/4763557679374772290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224548100000#c4763557679374772290' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7054815327963026185</id><published>2008-10-20T15:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T15:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As far as the Ashbery critique goes, all I can say...</title><summary type='text'>As far as the Ashbery critique goes, all I can say is what a plesant tone there is to &quot;the audience laughed hard at the sound of a funny name.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think that should get some neon. Maybe some twinkling lights.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/7054815327963026185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/394387820688221970/comments/default/7054815327963026185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1224531840000#c7054815327963026185' title=''/><author><name>John Gallaher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02112997671155171626</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3362/3683/320/JGlessCloseWithEffect.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/10/talking-with-marie-ponsot-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-394387820688221970' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/394387820688221970' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 20, 2008"/></entry></feed>