<?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.post5158906888550602576..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/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5813693024134086937</id><published>2008-05-15T17:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T17:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Meg,I knew it was you by the utter vagueness of yo...</title><summary type='text'>Meg,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I knew it was you by the utter vagueness of your negativity. Why don&#39;t you use your blog to talk more about what you like in poetry? This type of put-down doesn&#39;t contribute to anyone&#39;s fund of knowledge.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/5813693024134086937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/5813693024134086937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210887960000#c5813693024134086937' 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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7236525844175383322</id><published>2008-05-14T19:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T19:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One of the overwhelming problems with poetrynowada...</title><summary type='text'>One of the overwhelming problems with poetry&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;nowadays&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron....is...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;folks like you labeling dreadful stuff like that stunning.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s stunning alright but not the way you think.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s downright GAWD AWFUL and the poet should be told so.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe then, she can hunker down and write something that actually matters.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/7236525844175383322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/7236525844175383322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210808340000#c7236525844175383322' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4179674350791602186</id><published>2008-05-13T08:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-13T08:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It was not at all intended as a personal attack on...</title><summary type='text'>It was not at all intended as a personal attack on you, but more a vocalization of frustrations I have with the current tendency, thanks to the academy, of people to think in terms of about 4 or 5 in vogue thinkers. Of course, one could attribute those lines to Lacanian thought, but to say that they are reductive to Lacan is a general misguidance. It would be just as easy to derive a theoretical </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/4179674350791602186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/4179674350791602186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210682640000#c4179674350791602186' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Apps</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11387237324417934642</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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1272311462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8059869932999531431</id><published>2008-05-12T20:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T20:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&#39;t feel I was reducing her work; the concept...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&#39;t feel I was reducing her work; the concepts of Lacan seemed to be there in the text – when I encounter a postmodern poetics I tend to seek similarly-grounded meanings. Perhaps I was wrong to do so.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/8059869932999531431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/8059869932999531431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210637100000#c8059869932999531431' title=''/><author><name>Daniel</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='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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4512468037433154319</id><published>2008-05-12T17:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T17:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why is so much either reductive to someone’s post-...</title><summary type='text'>Why is so much either reductive to someone’s post-modernist of choice. Mostly, everything that human’s have that is worth saying can be fit on the back of a stamp. It is about reiterating that stamp, and that stamp’s content, in ways that I remind us...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The first sample, I found, to be rather lacking. And not simply for the crutches it has in both theoretical language and the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/4512468037433154319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/4512468037433154319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210627860000#c4512468037433154319' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Apps</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11387237324417934642</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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1272311462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3647536659843035613</id><published>2008-05-12T16:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T16:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The work you site here doesn&#39;t seem to use particu...</title><summary type='text'>The work you site here doesn&#39;t seem to use particularly interesting language (&quot;moon-read&quot; is the exception), or contain much sense; I don&#39;t know what you see in this except confusion (which you well may mistake for her brilliance?) and over-emotional language tied to what appears to be a poor understanding of Lacan, possibly Fanon if &#39;Prelude&#39; is an extended metaphor of nation-hood (the happiness</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/3647536659843035613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/3647536659843035613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210623900000#c3647536659843035613' title=''/><author><name>Daniel</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='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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7687200295124125810</id><published>2008-05-12T14:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T14:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m still working my way through the 19 great book...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m still working my way through the 19 great books in the PSA contest that I wish I could have given awards to, so it&#39;s going to be positive here for awhile.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, given how many books there are, why focus on the negative? I will, maybe 2 or 3 times per year, discuss some emperor in need of clothing, but that feels like quite enough, thank you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/7687200295124125810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/7687200295124125810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210617960000#c7687200295124125810' 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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1670296016124032501</id><published>2008-05-12T12:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T12:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i read a poetrya mere glimpse here of coursethat i...</title><summary type='text'>i read a poetry&lt;BR/&gt;a mere glimpse here of course&lt;BR/&gt;that is &lt;BR/&gt;or sounds&lt;BR/&gt;or reads&lt;BR/&gt;like poetry for poets&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;an individual dabbling&lt;BR/&gt;in words &lt;BR/&gt;and self expression&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;where does the project of verse&lt;BR/&gt;meet the needs of ordinary people&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in much the same way&lt;BR/&gt;we have all but lost&lt;BR/&gt;the experience&lt;BR/&gt;of the sound of the &lt;BR/&gt;unenhanced string&lt;BR/&gt;the naked</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/1670296016124032501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/1670296016124032501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210609560000#c1670296016124032501' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8191592217990666962</id><published>2008-05-12T10:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T10:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Exactly the complaint people made about Duncan, Ed...</title><summary type='text'>Exactly the complaint people made about Duncan, Ed. Thanks for proving my point.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/8191592217990666962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/8191592217990666962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210603980000#c8191592217990666962' 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/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1290961285992007487</id><published>2008-05-12T09:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-12T09:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>too many unnecessary words..I would offer that she...</title><summary type='text'>too many unnecessary words..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would offer that she &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;be absolutely &lt;BR/&gt;lucid&lt;BR/&gt;ease up on adjectives&lt;BR/&gt;and abstractions&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and don&#39;t seek complications&lt;BR/&gt;where they &#39;aint&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;what was Pounds advice?:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;You must understand what is happening.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/1290961285992007487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5158906888550602576/comments/default/1290961285992007487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html?showComment=1210598520000#c1290961285992007487' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lisa-fishman-is-writer-who-works.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5158906888550602576' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5158906888550602576' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2008"/></entry></feed>