<?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.post5126624358556378464..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/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.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>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3633919311981492708</id><published>2009-01-29T22:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T22:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Point (advice to budding poets)Make one. Then disg...</title><summary type='text'>Point (advice to budding poets)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Make one. Then disguise it&lt;BR/&gt;and make them all try&lt;BR/&gt;to figure it out.&lt;BR/&gt;Be witty and clever&lt;BR/&gt;and erudite.&lt;BR/&gt;Make sure they get&lt;BR/&gt;too frustrated&lt;BR/&gt;in the searching&lt;BR/&gt;to really get it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Many references, too.&lt;BR/&gt;Some obscure, so they appear&lt;BR/&gt;to reflect a cultured mind.&lt;BR/&gt;Be scholarly and ever&lt;BR/&gt;more unclear.&lt;BR/&gt;Offer a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/3633919311981492708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/3633919311981492708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233285660000#c3633919311981492708' 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='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4933464072464793917</id><published>2009-01-29T11:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T11:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I have discussed Armantrout&#39;s work at length in th...</title><summary type='text'>I have discussed Armantrout&#39;s work at length in this blog box in the past.  But different people drop in all the time, and the collective memory in boxes seems to be about 3 weeks.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Armantrout&#39;s poetry has always seemed to me to be about the constructed tensions between competing kinds of language.  The &quot;authorial&quot; voice&#39;s self-consciousness about how what we think to say (even to feel) </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/4933464072464793917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/4933464072464793917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233245820000#c4933464072464793917' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5059055423577261020</id><published>2009-01-29T00:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T00:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sycamores are heart-rending.</title><summary type='text'>Sycamores are heart-rending.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/5059055423577261020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/5059055423577261020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233208440000#c5059055423577261020' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8939615334260445314</id><published>2009-01-28T16:33:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T16:33:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>oaks are serious, so are redwoodsbamboo is serious...</title><summary type='text'>oaks are serious, so are redwoods&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;bamboo is serious if you want to remove it, but that&#39;s not really a tree&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;maples and sycamores are not serious&lt;BR/&gt;neither is dogwood or lemon trees&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this may be the pathetic fallacy but poets don&#39;t have to be logical</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/8939615334260445314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/8939615334260445314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233178380001#c8939615334260445314' title=''/><author><name>cielo fontanero</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03127984623890722872</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PzNEPX0cTRc/SXIdGSFro_I/AAAAAAAAAOY/SYB0EaLNeQk/S220/eucalyptus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1629907013"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-916887783036119677</id><published>2009-01-28T16:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T16:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I once saw a &quot;Black&quot; man hanging at the end of a r...</title><summary type='text'>I once saw a &quot;Black&quot; man hanging at the end of a rope from a tree&#39;s branch:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;THAT was a &quot;serious&quot; tree!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he was more a purple color than a black color.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/916887783036119677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/916887783036119677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233178380000#c916887783036119677' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6003699377688302808</id><published>2009-01-28T16:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T16:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What would constitute a &quot;serious tree&quot;?</title><summary type='text'>What would constitute a &quot;serious tree&quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/6003699377688302808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/6003699377688302808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233177660000#c6003699377688302808' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9208278579346637459</id><published>2009-01-28T14:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T14:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the jacaranda - I think it&#39;s like this:don&#39;t give ...</title><summary type='text'>the jacaranda - I think it&#39;s like this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;don&#39;t give it more than what it is,&lt;BR/&gt;if that&#39;s all it is - and it is, because I&#39;ve seen them too. They are simple, pretty trees, not too serious, and that&#39;s it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/9208278579346637459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/9208278579346637459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233172740000#c9208278579346637459' title=''/><author><name>cielo fontanero</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03127984623890722872</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PzNEPX0cTRc/SXIdGSFro_I/AAAAAAAAAOY/SYB0EaLNeQk/S220/eucalyptus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1629907013"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5555038958898570571</id><published>2009-01-28T12:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T12:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel,You&#39;d like to read &quot;Resemblance&quot; and find a...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;d like to read &quot;Resemblance&quot; and find a poem of &quot;deep insight,&quot; a something-more-than rudimentary grasp of physics, a grownup, unsentimental angst. Its poet, I suppose, would be a true intellectual; a vicarious master of such things. It appears to me, though, that the poem has a different agenda: a kind of critique of, or perhaps puzzlement over, a certain kind of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/5555038958898570571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/5555038958898570571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233163260000#c5555038958898570571' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3790046990767510754</id><published>2009-01-28T12:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T12:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, it&#39;s amazing how angry people seem to get aro...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, it&#39;s amazing how &lt;I&gt;angry&lt;/I&gt; people seem to get around here every time Rae Armantrout&#39;s poems (as close to perfect, incidentally, as any I&#39;ve ever read) get a mention. In a way, it&#39;s refreshing to see that great art can still raise hackles (like reading the comments book at the Cy Twombly gallery in Houston). &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know how to reply to Ed B&#39;s comment except by saying &quot;nuh-uh!&quot; </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/3790046990767510754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/3790046990767510754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233162240000#c3790046990767510754' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7732751898083714175</id><published>2009-01-28T10:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T10:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Thank you for your provocative remarks about R...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you for your provocative remarks about Rae Armantrout&amp;#39;s wonderful new book Versed. I&amp;#39;m heading right to Amazon to order it after writing this comment.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If I&amp;#39;m assuming wrongly that your remarks invite dialogue I apologize in advance; however, I have a few questions about your commentary that I&amp;#39;ll present here in no particular order. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let me </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7732751898083714175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7732751898083714175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233157860000#c7732751898083714175' title=''/><author><name>Diana Manister</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18337577356237998370</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0npWLX2b4lo/SWe6iha_X0I/AAAAAAAAAAk/uWvB2ruo8mo/S220/CloseCrop.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-881595609"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7112394424864749955</id><published>2009-01-27T19:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T19:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>drinking a bowl of diamonds? WTF!?!?!10 points for...</title><summary type='text'>drinking a bowl of diamonds? WTF!?!?!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;10 points for the weirdest and most preposterous opening simile ever deployed on this blog to date... three cheers for inanity...!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7112394424864749955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7112394424864749955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233104160000#c7112394424864749955' title=''/><author><name>Lil Norton</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09801525029579042507</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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-863703621"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4546029384520977440</id><published>2009-01-27T19:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T19:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis (et al)Updike only 6 years older than me!ht...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis (et al)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Updike only 6 years older than me!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/books/28updike.html?_r=1&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;S=H=I=T !&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and 2.3 million times more talented   .. was!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/4546029384520977440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/4546029384520977440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233104040000#c4546029384520977440' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4849724308085880261</id><published>2009-01-27T19:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T19:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>AH-MEN!, Curtiskeep-on-truckinI miss &quot;letters&quot;   w...</title><summary type='text'>AH-MEN!, Curtis&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;keep-on-truckin&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I miss &quot;letters&quot;   wasn&#39;t things callled &quot;Arts and Letters&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this internet &quot;stuff&quot; is   at best... insipid&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;not very many people know Rabbit, Run&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;or give a ratz-ass!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/4849724308085880261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/4849724308085880261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233103620000#c4849724308085880261' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-976804947895501407</id><published>2009-01-27T19:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T19:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As usual, Mr. Pritchard&#39;s hostility and lack of se...</title><summary type='text'>As usual, Mr. Pritchard&#39;s hostility and lack of sensitivity astound me.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder what he would say about the work of Emily Dickinson.  I can&#39;t think of any more important descendant of ED&#39;s than Armantrout, whose controlled concision, startling leaps, and multi-valenced voicings seem head and shoulders above almost anyone else I can think of, except perhaps Graham Foust.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Who</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/976804947895501407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/976804947895501407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233103140000#c976804947895501407' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7249476781107952092</id><published>2009-01-27T19:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T19:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Driving home from San Rafael this afternoon I hear...</title><summary type='text'>Driving home from San Rafael this afternoon I heard on NPR that John Updike had just died, after a brief stay in a hospice near his home in Massachusetts.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was somewhat surprised and saddened by this news.  Despite having been critical of his writer&#39;s choices over the years--particularly his astounding prolificity--I think American literature will miss this polymath of disciplines and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7249476781107952092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7249476781107952092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233102840000#c7249476781107952092' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-88969682388538310</id><published>2009-01-27T18:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T18:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>she uses too many useles words  words that are con...</title><summary type='text'>she uses too many useles words  words that are conditional and do not do their &quot;job&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;she seeks complications where the aren&#39;t&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and does not arrange the right words in the right order&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the words should tell her what she should be saying...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;.. but, she has Credentials!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;she is not breathe-ing nor letting the words breathe..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/88969682388538310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/88969682388538310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233100380000#c88969682388538310' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8990889688413420520</id><published>2009-01-27T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T16:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve never understood RA&#39;s reputation. You assert ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve never understood RA&#39;s reputation. You assert that her books has &quot;beautiful / terrible moments of description&quot;, but if you could quote some examples I&#39;d appreciate it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What I&#39;ve seen has always seemed falsely intellectual; the pretense of deep insight without the content. If you take &quot;A Resemblance,&quot; for example, it works; but the rudimentary grasp of physics tied to sentimental </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/8990889688413420520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/8990889688413420520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233092340000#c8990889688413420520' 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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3481154221084956657</id><published>2009-01-27T14:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T14:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks very much for this introduction to Armantro...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks very much for this introduction to Armantrout, who I didn&#39;t know of (not that I know of any). But I don&#39;t understand&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;what is at once surreal &amp;amp; horrific about life in Southern California, a terrain that has never been handled with more clinical disdain, not even by Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;: can you perhaps expand one day on this?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/3481154221084956657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/3481154221084956657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233084060000#c3481154221084956657' title=''/><author><name>Charles Shere</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235</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/_2MqkzpICYFQ/SPto2470lFI/AAAAAAAABI4/8VV47AuPwlU/S220/IMG_7780_2.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-964337135"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1731418730386241060</id><published>2009-01-27T12:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T12:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I appreciate your acknowledgment of the role that ...</title><summary type='text'>I appreciate your acknowledgment of the role that place--particularly Southern California--plays in Rae Armantrout&#39;s writing. While she isn&#39;t in any conventional sense a regional poet, I think place plays more of a role in her poetry that people often recognize. Not simply that the descriptive moments often do describe Southern California, but also that the absences and ellipses often are related</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/1731418730386241060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/1731418730386241060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233077220000#c1731418730386241060' title=''/><author><name>mark wallace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.avecbooks.org/images/markwallace.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7666847977989644595</id><published>2009-01-27T11:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T11:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>1. Among quite a few other things, Great Hymn of T...</title><summary type='text'>1. Among quite a few other things, Great Hymn of Thanksgiving (in yesterday&#39;s links) is also a setting of Armantrout (Sets)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2. flight students</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7666847977989644595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/7666847977989644595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233073560000#c7666847977989644595' title=''/><author><name>mark enslin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06924619438715136415</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/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1670729334"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9209556678035482433</id><published>2009-01-27T08:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T08:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fans of Rae Armantrout—I&#39;m certainly one—will find...</title><summary type='text'>Fans of Rae Armantrout—I&#39;m certainly one—will find something of a kindred spirit in &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://vazambam.blogspot.com/&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Vassilis Zambaras&lt;/A&gt;, a poet whose many years living in Greece may have kept him &quot;off the map.&quot; He may have more in common with &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.longhousepoetry.com/corman.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cid Corman&lt;/A&gt;—but then I imagine Armantrout owes a debt there </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/9209556678035482433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5126624358556378464/comments/default/9209556678035482433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html?showComment=1233063840000#c9209556678035482433' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/trying-to-read-book-by-rae-armantrout.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5126624358556378464' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5126624358556378464' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2009"/></entry></feed>