<?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.post4778235245620379065..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/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2438004298867591946</id><published>2008-01-02T10:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T10:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think what Curtis writes about Ashbery in terms ...</title><summary type='text'>I think what Curtis writes about Ashbery in terms of his wanting to distance himself from any &quot;vulnerability&quot; is why I don&#39;t like his poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s why I do like Corso and many of the Beat poets, or at least it&#39;s part of what I like...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s also why I simply can&#39;t understand most of the Language poets.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/2438004298867591946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/2438004298867591946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html?showComment=1199287560000#c2438004298867591946' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4778235245620379065' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4778235245620379065' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5815342951725035501</id><published>2007-12-31T15:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T15:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Whalen reading is here:http://www.slought.org/...</title><summary type='text'>The Whalen reading is here:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.slought.org/content/11115/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/5815342951725035501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/5815342951725035501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html?showComment=1199131680000#c5815342951725035501' title=''/><author><name>Don</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04995332885940017913</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4778235245620379065' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4778235245620379065' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1604261415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3788453315412227436</id><published>2007-12-31T11:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T11:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven, the side of Ashbery which I think is large...</title><summary type='text'>Steven, the side of Ashbery which I think is largely ignored--in favor of PC literary taste--is his sardonic disdain for &quot;emotion.&quot;  That side is very evident in the JA-Schuyler camp novel A Nest of Ninnies.  Middle-class sentiment is ruthlessly ridiculed, along with straight sexual relations and modern society&#39;s fair-weather optimism and shallow tolerance.  It&#39;s another way of distancing oneself</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/3788453315412227436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/3788453315412227436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html?showComment=1199119560000#c3788453315412227436' 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/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4778235245620379065' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4778235245620379065' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7182170237746257193</id><published>2007-12-31T01:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T01:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>RE: Fred Wau&#39;s recording of Whalen&#39;s 1963 Vancouve...</title><summary type='text'>RE: Fred Wau&#39;s recording of Whalen&#39;s 1963 Vancouver Reading. &lt;BR/&gt;In January 1963 I fled Memphis and by pure chance ended up at the U of Arizona. Barney Childs was there, Keith Wilson, Drummond Hadley, Paul Malanga. Creeley, Snyder, Duncan, others came and went via the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center. That summer the Vancouver Poetry Festival happened, and Drummond went armed with a tape recorder and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/7182170237746257193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/7182170237746257193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html?showComment=1199083140000#c7182170237746257193' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4778235245620379065' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4778235245620379065' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8395687097423371409</id><published>2007-12-31T01:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T01:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis asks (re: Ashbery) -- &quot;. . . always the sam...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis asks (re: Ashbery) -- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;. . . always the same question, the same open-ended iterations, always the same oddly &quot;inevitable&quot; segues into metaphor, the same impatient, incontinent frustration, everything shifting and aligning and re-aligning endlessly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But to what purpose?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, maybe Ashbery took to heart that part of Hamlet&#39;s advice to the players about the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/8395687097423371409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/8395687097423371409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html?showComment=1199081760000#c8395687097423371409' 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/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4778235245620379065' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4778235245620379065' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-992148131809808213</id><published>2007-12-30T21:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-30T21:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve always thought of Ashbery as a teaser.  Every...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve always thought of Ashbery as a teaser.  Every poem seems to hold out the possibility of illumination and enlightenment, but it&#39;s always pulled away at the last minute, undercut by another contextual reference or logical twist.  It&#39;s an intellectual game, rather like chess (but without a game&#39;s strict rules and limited functionality).  Does this suggest a lack of commitment or seriousness?  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/992148131809808213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4778235245620379065/comments/default/992148131809808213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html?showComment=1199069400000#c992148131809808213' 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/2007/12/conscience-of-gloucester-two-readings.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4778235245620379065' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4778235245620379065' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 30, 2007"/></entry></feed>