<?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.post5022789618444227792..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/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5056652417990194452</id><published>2010-05-28T09:46:48.951-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-28T09:46:48.951-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Yorker&amp;#39;s tradition of publishing poetr...</title><summary type='text'>The New Yorker&amp;#39;s tradition of publishing poetry has always been a &amp;quot;special case&amp;quot;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 1920&amp;#39;s and 1930&amp;#39;s, when light verse was still considered chic and cute, they published a lot of it.  Then when Bogan took over, followed by Howard Moss, it became at last &amp;quot;serious&amp;quot;--except that neither of these two was very original or smart in their choices.  Moss</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/5056652417990194452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/5056652417990194452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1275054408951#c5056652417990194452' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-648787685466106222</id><published>2010-05-27T11:39:27.778-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T11:39:27.778-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Yorker has had some good news articles as ...</title><summary type='text'>The New Yorker has had some good news articles as of late as their Honduras coverage (a topic establishment poets have ignored) was among the best of the corporate press, but people who peruse the poetry and poetry crit there get the idea that the contemporary poets are petty, malicious and unoriginal.  I suppose it&amp;#39;s good that Armantrout and Ashbery are published there and referenced, but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/648787685466106222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/648787685466106222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274974767778#c648787685466106222' 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/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3503521794556168124</id><published>2010-05-27T11:39:27.779-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T11:39:27.779-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have been offline but read that Chiasson article...</title><summary type='text'>I have been offline but read that Chiasson article about a week ago. Reading the responses to it, predictably no one finds it inspiring.  It of course smugly dismisses language poetry for criteria that could have been used to dismiss Dante, Shakespeare, Brecht, Homer, etc., and in the course of doing so attempts to dismiss completely the work of Charles Bernstein, on the implicit basis that he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/3503521794556168124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/3503521794556168124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274974767779#c3503521794556168124' 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/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8785774975183422335</id><published>2010-05-26T22:53:34.898-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T22:53:34.898-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the link to Adam Fieled&amp;#39;s piece of ...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the link to Adam Fieled&amp;#39;s piece of Lou Reed&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Street Hassle.&amp;quot; I&amp;#39;m a longtime admirer of Reed, for his failures as much as his successes, and &amp;quot;Street Hassle&amp;quot; is, for me, his greatest success. That others don&amp;#39;t see this remains a strange and inexplicable fact to me. I played the entire disc one over WRVU at Vanderbilt, clearly not worrying about the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/8785774975183422335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/8785774975183422335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274928814898#c8785774975183422335' title=''/><author><name>Geof Huth</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bxWxn2TaLSw/S8vP1DWHxhI/AAAAAAAAHEs/sza259zmkMU/S220/DSC_0059.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-599696549"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 26, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-202779669243543876</id><published>2010-05-25T13:18:20.954-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T13:18:20.954-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Spinoza hagiography in the Nation overlooks a ...</title><summary type='text'>The Spinoza hagiography in the Nation overlooks a few facts .  While Spin. did take on the religious authorities of his age (including jewish ones--Spin. supposedly learned Latin to read his role-model Descartes), he at times championed statist views (not so different from, say, Hobbes, as Moyn sort of suggests), and was not that progressive, politically speaking--progressive in comparison with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/202779669243543876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/202779669243543876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274807900954#c202779669243543876' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/S-Mhd26f68I/AAAAAAAABCs/-DRnC_5JCm4/S220/RinglingProgramCover1929.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-19311237819404182</id><published>2010-05-25T11:14:26.940-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T11:14:26.940-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes and yes to Kay Ryan for doing a  bunch of read...</title><summary type='text'>Yes and yes to Kay Ryan for doing a  bunch of readings at community colleges during her laureate-ship.  She didn&amp;#39;t forget her neighborhood, and while I appreciate the good in poetry that can be found at the big-money colleges (one example: PennSound), I appreciate it when attention&amp;#39;s given to efforts to teach creative reading (of poetry) at the less well-funded places.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/19311237819404182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/19311237819404182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274800466940#c19311237819404182' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6414146645273157608</id><published>2010-05-25T11:05:48.358-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T11:05:48.358-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Didion was a fairly authentic writer with a sharp ...</title><summary type='text'>Didion was a fairly authentic writer with a sharp noirish prose-style. Unlike most in BeatCo (or OldsCo) she managed to avoid narcissism and/or masturbating to boodha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tho&amp;#39; even Miss Didion never produced an Exile on Main Street (actually a great f-ing record, piano from Hopkins, saxes, keith&amp;#39;s soul,  with that most excellent backbeat watts and wyman-- except for Jaggers, who </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/6414146645273157608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/6414146645273157608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274799948358#c6414146645273157608' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/S-Mhd26f68I/AAAAAAAABCs/-DRnC_5JCm4/S220/RinglingProgramCover1929.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1750480810384475308</id><published>2010-05-25T09:58:55.689-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T09:58:55.689-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was surprised to see that the NYT guy loves the ...</title><summary type='text'>I was surprised to see that the NYT guy loves the &amp;quot;Loving Cup&amp;quot; outtake.  For once I agree with someone who writes for the Oldest of gray ladies! I bought Exile the day it came out, and most of my cohort are really hating on this track.  Not me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inspirational prose from Lester Bangs, to boot: “The party is obvious. The casualties are inevitable.”  I volunteer to edit a Lester </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/1750480810384475308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/1750480810384475308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274795935689#c1750480810384475308' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4632060227202457680</id><published>2010-05-25T08:12:43.250-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T08:12:43.250-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m happy to see people are still discussing S...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m happy to see people are still discussing Spinoza out there. If there was ever a post-avant ethicist and metaphysician!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/4632060227202457680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/4632060227202457680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274789563250#c4632060227202457680' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3575029923798779307</id><published>2010-05-25T07:17:09.092-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T07:17:09.092-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When I was at Berkeley, which was during his time ...</title><summary type='text'>When I was at Berkeley, which was during his time there as well, I never once heard anyone call him anything but Dick. Like Creeley Bob or Simic Charlie or Grenier Bob. Maybe he reverted to the more formal mode at Michigan or later, but I&amp;#39;d have a hard time thinking of him as anything but after, literally, 40 years.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/3575029923798779307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/3575029923798779307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274786229092#c3575029923798779307' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7812966608754482271</id><published>2010-05-25T05:59:58.871-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T05:59:58.871-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kara Miller says, &amp;quot;We often belittle English ...</title><summary type='text'>Kara Miller says, &amp;quot;We often belittle English teachers.&amp;quot; Some people seem to regard English teachers such as myself with a mixture of contempt and respect. (Clergymen are often objects of a similar ambivalence, I imagine.) On the one hand, they consider you a stooge for eschewing money--self-evidently the sine qua non of life--in favor of helping people cultivate intellect, which they </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/7812966608754482271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5022789618444227792/comments/default/7812966608754482271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html?showComment=1274781598871#c7812966608754482271' title=''/><author><name>David Grove</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tknn7_LQTIA/S6fjRg-MVRI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/-66g7EaCfIY/S220/David_and_Robbie_portrait%5B2%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/talking-with-rae-armantrout-check-audio.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022789618444227792' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5022789618444227792' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1761473950"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2010"/></entry></feed>