<?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.post5683521135945077026..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/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5251388781580314908</id><published>2009-08-06T08:16:16.206-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-06T08:16:16.206-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting!</title><summary type='text'>Interesting!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/5251388781580314908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/5251388781580314908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249560976206#c5251388781580314908' title=''/><author><name>Shabsblog</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01120561323952962112</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QjJFCtL_cwA/SQ2soMWwglI/AAAAAAAAAAo/ybAFAxJZzg4/S220/sylvi_sx.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484104213"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 06, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7597184117659221851</id><published>2009-08-04T17:22:33.924-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T17:22:33.924-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What I don&amp;#39;t understand Ron is how the collect...</title><summary type='text'>What I don&amp;#39;t understand Ron is how the collection of ideas you find drifting around the internet, pick up and then re-phrase in your own inimitable (is it self-parody) style, can be so widely read. I think it&amp;#39;s because your links carry so much weight. Your blog is like a funnel.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7597184117659221851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7597184117659221851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249420953924#c7597184117659221851' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2103472114571167365</id><published>2009-08-04T13:24:12.733-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T13:24:12.733-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That Blake&amp;#39;s conception of the book differs ma...</title><summary type='text'>That Blake&amp;#39;s conception of the book differs materially from his peers only gets a footnote?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems to me that even as the other Romantics may have been writing with the book&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;implications for distribution and consumption in mind,&amp;quot; Blake was already actively challenging these implications with his illuminated book-making process, a material process that limited </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/2103472114571167365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/2103472114571167365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249406652733#c2103472114571167365' title=''/><author><name>Jack Boettcher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08701570793586460126</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1086676673"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-894851417421828515</id><published>2009-08-04T09:25:24.487-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T09:25:24.487-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael:  The LOC&amp;#39;s book definition isn&amp;#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>Michael:  The LOC&amp;#39;s book definition isn&amp;#39;t meant to exclude from appreciation, only to set out guidelines for distinguishing books from pamphlets and folded broadsides, etc.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think Ron&amp;#39;s theory regarding the existence of a literary hegemony based on the East Coast, controlling literary taste and the publishing industry is self-evidently true.  Whether you believe that it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/894851417421828515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/894851417421828515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249392324487#c894851417421828515' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1146174534490780316</id><published>2009-08-04T07:57:46.804-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T07:57:46.804-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hey Tim:&#xa;&#xa;don&amp;#39;t you mean tuh say/write &#xa;&#xa;&amp;quot...</title><summary type='text'>hey Tim:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don&amp;#39;t you mean tuh say/write &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;fascist language&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;rather than &amp;quot;fashion language&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;let&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;get it write&amp;quot; as&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;these daze it s so very difficult to choose an outfit to wear at the next Poetry Conference  ... especially&lt;br /&gt;which hat to wear!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1146174534490780316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1146174534490780316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249387066804#c1146174534490780316' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1821101636865538610</id><published>2009-08-04T02:15:37.190-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T02:15:37.190-04:00</updated><title type='text'>OK, I just have to point out how hilarious it is t...</title><summary type='text'>OK, I just have to point out how hilarious it is that Nick in his comment above opposes &amp;quot;their cohorts&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;pointless factionalism.&amp;quot; That is, you&amp;#39;re not being pointless as long as you join the designated faction. That&amp;#39;s just fashion language, declaring some people hip and others obsolete. I don&amp;#39;t buy it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1821101636865538610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1821101636865538610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249366537190#c1821101636865538610' title=''/><author><name>Tim Peterson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12788267620443595389</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ss3Eh44fNE8/SA0iNXCbgcI/AAAAAAAAABU/POvOEYAF3jo/S220/tim_2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-255165047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5203681282594890109</id><published>2009-08-03T23:10:01.353-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T23:10:01.353-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Until reading this post, I hadn&amp;#39;t connected Ke...</title><summary type='text'>Until reading this post, I hadn&amp;#39;t connected Kenny Goldsmith&amp;#39;s idea of a poetry &amp;quot;thinkership&amp;quot; with what I&amp;#39;ve always thought of, and enjoyed immensely, as &amp;quot; literary theory.&amp;quot; Duh. I&amp;#39;ve been reading and rereading Rob Fitterman&amp;#39;s book on Conceptualisms, searching for, and sensing what was hiding here (from me, anyway) somewhere, the ghost of what used to excite</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/5203681282594890109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/5203681282594890109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249355401353#c5203681282594890109' title=''/><author><name>Nick Piombino</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13568121496784551556</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0o9bTerlUvU/SPtBGdDD8rI/AAAAAAAAAAM/80JLMIXWpxA/S220/piombino.jpeg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1835391286"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4952806450867473162</id><published>2009-08-03T19:26:02.399-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T19:26:02.399-04:00</updated><title type='text'>shibboleth&#xa;noun&#xa;1) a custom, principle, or belief ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;b&gt;shibboleth&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;noun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, esp. a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important&lt;br /&gt;2) origin: from the Hebrew šibbōlet (mid-17th century) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;sillimaning&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;noun&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) deeply vital poetry-writing&lt;br /&gt;2) frequently insightful commentary&lt;br /&gt;2) deeply </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/4952806450867473162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/4952806450867473162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249341962399#c4952806450867473162' title=''/><author><name>pow</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15685337696845471782</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1779182615"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3608614957101600549</id><published>2009-08-03T18:06:01.530-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T18:06:01.530-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Just out of whimsy curiosity, I went back and look...</title><summary type='text'>Just out of whimsy curiosity, I went back and looked at the first posts of your blog, dating back to the early days of August 2002. And you know what? In your second post ever you mentioned Christian Bök&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Eunoia&lt;/i&gt; and also included this sentence: &amp;quot;But in my pocket, as an e-book, is Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book, which I’ve downloaded to my Palm Pilot using the Adobe Acrobat Reader for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3608614957101600549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3608614957101600549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249337161530#c3608614957101600549' title=''/><author><name>Karri Kokko</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11485642707008456895</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659023168"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8384797688889274194</id><published>2009-08-03T17:27:00.625-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T17:27:00.625-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think I (just about) qualify as a Quietudist. Bu...</title><summary type='text'>I think I (just about) qualify as a Quietudist. But I have no interest in using the book format to present my poetry. Rather, I think of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rikweb.co.uk/poems/index.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The RikVerse Website&lt;/a&gt; as a &lt;i&gt;living book&lt;/i&gt;, a presentation of my work that regularly evolves, devolves and reinvents itself as I evolve myself. Does that sound pretentious? I suppose so, but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/8384797688889274194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/8384797688889274194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249334820625#c8384797688889274194' title=''/><author><name>Rik</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10564300512472868098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1028/1161893762_96f2d27563_s.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1097429834"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8293571812368637560</id><published>2009-08-03T17:13:00.419-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T17:13:00.419-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven Fama said:&#xa;&#xa;“There is too, I think, an &amp;quo...</title><summary type='text'>Steven Fama said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There is too, I think, an &amp;quot;un-official&amp;quot; verse &amp;quot;culture,&amp;quot; meaning those that don&amp;#39;t participate in any of the centers above. I believe (hope) there&amp;#39;s right now a Rimbaud among us, tearing it all up on the page, unbeknownst to any center of Official/offical verse culture.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interesting comment. And Don Share knows that to be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/8293571812368637560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/8293571812368637560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249333980419#c8293571812368637560' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7748893622718332937</id><published>2009-08-03T16:13:12.894-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T16:13:12.894-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Funny you should address the question of poetry&amp;#3...</title><summary type='text'>Funny you should address the question of poetry&amp;#39;s readers in general and Kenny Goldsmith&amp;#39;s in particular the same day I received my copy of &lt;i&gt;Soliloquy&lt;/i&gt; in the mail. Now, although my reading experience of said book is, of course, limited (Kenny ain&amp;#39;t past his first breakfast yet) I&amp;#39;m inclined to side with Nada here: so far the book has been perfectly readable and even </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7748893622718332937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7748893622718332937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249330392894#c7748893622718332937' title=''/><author><name>Karri Kokko</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11485642707008456895</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659023168"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1729122303062490148</id><published>2009-08-03T15:55:42.389-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T15:55:42.389-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Speaking of the SoQ&amp;#39;s conception of the book, ...</title><summary type='text'>Speaking of the SoQ&amp;#39;s conception of the book, here is the Library of Congress&amp;#39; definition of a &amp;quot;book&amp;quot; (for purposes of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry): &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A book (&amp;quot;Book&amp;quot;) is hereby defined as a collection of printed leaves that have been folded, secured by adhesive along the binding edge (perfect binding; no saddle-stitched or stapled </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1729122303062490148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1729122303062490148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249329342389#c1729122303062490148' title=''/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14033440225234858827</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1107642349"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1677001414904342323</id><published>2009-08-03T15:06:54.628-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T15:06:54.628-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, Don Share is a reasonable person, and being ...</title><summary type='text'>Well, Don Share is a reasonable person, and being on staff at &lt;i&gt;Poetry&lt;/i&gt; doesn&amp;#39;t necessarily mean his view is to be discounted, but it&amp;#39;s a fact that needs to be considered, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all of which I say as a preface to saying that I don&amp;#39;t think the idea of official verse culture should or can be retired. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though maybe I see it more broadly than Ron here (I&amp;#39;ve said </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1677001414904342323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1677001414904342323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249326414628#c1677001414904342323' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4724041557691683570</id><published>2009-08-03T15:05:02.470-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T15:05:02.470-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It’s nice to see so many optimists in one place. U...</title><summary type='text'>It’s nice to see so many optimists in one place. Unfortunately, your faith is misplaced. All of this potential technology you envision that will make paper books obsolete is based on one little thing: the generation of electricity. When that goes, due to the depletion of fuel or war or Nature or the simple inevitable deterioration and entropy of human culture, we’ll be back to books and horses, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/4724041557691683570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/4724041557691683570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249326302470#c4724041557691683570' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3565620606464129214</id><published>2009-08-03T14:42:21.757-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T14:42:21.757-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Poetry is a phenomenon which evolves from an incub...</title><summary type='text'>Poetry is a phenomenon which evolves from an incubation process situated in large barrels of discarded Ukrainian suet product.  How poetry emanates &amp;amp; spreads from these ovoid-embryonoid containers is still unknown to science.  Dr. Mikhail Valkonnenen of the Ukrainian National University has worked for 35 years in the field suet-generated poetry research; a compendium of his monographic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3565620606464129214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3565620606464129214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249324941757#c3565620606464129214' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3033947063844927425</id><published>2009-08-03T14:02:34.077-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T14:02:34.077-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re Sound Poetry, I think that Jaap Blonk has done ...</title><summary type='text'>Re Sound Poetry, I think that Jaap Blonk has done an excellent job of defining the territory in which he is working. He has put forward a very detailed theory of how the notion of sound beyond language is nonetheless related to language; for the speakers of any language, it turns out that even when making sounds that are not words, there are a range of sounds that they just don&amp;#39;t make, since </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3033947063844927425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3033947063844927425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249322554077#c3033947063844927425' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3344099979608554882</id><published>2009-08-03T12:53:40.107-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T12:53:40.107-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My favorite books are the bodies in Kafka&amp;#39;s pe...</title><summary type='text'>My favorite books are the bodies in Kafka&amp;#39;s penal colony.  A nicer, more gentle version is in the film THE PILLOW BOOK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I say THIS because it&amp;#39;s all about our crimes in the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freya Aswynn says take a sacred piss, and she means write the Norse alphabet in mud, snow, grass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dale, I like your idea of poems on leaves especially leaves, especially leaves,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3344099979608554882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3344099979608554882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249318420107#c3344099979608554882' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vy9H2bBCxYk/SMaL6fmKV4I/AAAAAAAAAZE/n1EfTHmp830/S220/BIG+E.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7569412742100508773</id><published>2009-08-03T11:32:54.021-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T11:32:54.021-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What was it that Adorno said about &amp;quot;ticket th...</title><summary type='text'>What was it that Adorno said about &amp;quot;ticket thinking&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;armchair thinking&amp;quot;? This entire post is an example of it. I&amp;#39;m deeply disappointed by your designation of the new thing Ron, as well as the implied language here regarding who you&amp;#39;ve decided should succeed you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new important questions that will arise regarding literary production are not this kind </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7569412742100508773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7569412742100508773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249313574021#c7569412742100508773' title=''/><author><name>Tim Peterson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12788267620443595389</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ss3Eh44fNE8/SA0iNXCbgcI/AAAAAAAAABU/POvOEYAF3jo/S220/tim_2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-255165047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6823036872080569404</id><published>2009-08-03T11:19:55.920-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T11:19:55.920-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One thing that would help going forward would be t...</title><summary type='text'>One thing that would help going forward would be to retire the &amp;quot;Official Verse Culture&amp;quot; &amp;amp; other shibboleths of the past.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Re CDs, well, that&amp;#39;s a technology more doomed than the book.  Right now, podcasts &amp;amp; other web audio is the way to go.  Anyone can see and hear Bok&amp;#39;s work online, which is an amazing experience; that said, the new Coach House editions of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/6823036872080569404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/6823036872080569404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249312795920#c6823036872080569404' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4660264901667382438</id><published>2009-08-03T10:46:43.675-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T10:46:43.675-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the other hand, we also know that technology is...</title><summary type='text'>On the other hand, we also know that technology is moving so rapidly, that storage and retrieval systems &amp;quot;as we know them&amp;quot; are changing so fast that &amp;quot;conversions&amp;quot; from one step to the next may end up obsoleting material texts (and our implicit cultural memory) more quickly than we want or need.  Mountains of new &amp;quot;data&amp;quot; are being lost as we speak.  So while books may </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/4660264901667382438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/4660264901667382438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249310803675#c4660264901667382438' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7603466211744146971</id><published>2009-08-03T10:22:46.443-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T10:22:46.443-04:00</updated><title type='text'>on all this see the astonishing book by Ivan Illic...</title><summary type='text'>on all this see the astonishing book by Ivan Illich:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;amp;bookkey=46907&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which is far too little known.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7603466211744146971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/7603466211744146971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249309366443#c7603466211744146971' title=''/><author><name>Tom Cheetham</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12985087642903754121</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1785660862"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3666705973710142449</id><published>2009-08-03T10:03:28.596-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T10:03:28.596-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I concur with Nada that the concept of the &amp;quot;u...</title><summary type='text'>I concur with Nada that the concept of the &amp;quot;unreadable&amp;quot; is itself, in this blog entry, undertheorized, though your argument certainly points toward a history of readability...Finally I almost fell over when you wrote that the standardization of spelling and grammar occurred with &amp;quot;nary a comment from anyone.&amp;quot; The arguments over rhetoric and grammar aside (e.g., Daniel Webster </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3666705973710142449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/3666705973710142449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249308208596#c3666705973710142449' title=''/><author><name>tyrone</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10893356047914344813</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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-570102948"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1065849608295008049</id><published>2009-08-03T07:44:21.604-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T07:44:21.604-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To me, Kenny&amp;#39;s Fidget and Soliloquy are intens...</title><summary type='text'>To me, Kenny&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Fidget&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Soliloquy&lt;/i&gt; are intensely readable, no matter his intention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also feel the same about Kasey&amp;#39;s poetry. I&amp;#39;m wondering, Ron, what you feel is unreadable about it. Is it maybe all those vomiting swans?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also... what hubris?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1065849608295008049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1065849608295008049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249299861604#c1065849608295008049' title=''/><author><name>Nada</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01448534316756256503</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/_X-R2gU6jEQU/SchM7MkzE2I/AAAAAAAAAXY/d4U3BdcAh30/s1600-R/3371332775_79e8b4eb4f_s.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1564832188"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1973300698851472344</id><published>2009-08-03T07:07:46.458-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T07:07:46.458-04:00</updated><title type='text'>these daze&#xa;there is&#xa;via the net&#xa;so many Poets poet...</title><summary type='text'>these daze&lt;br /&gt;there is&lt;br /&gt;via the net&lt;br /&gt;so many Poets poeting Poetry&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can no longer&lt;br /&gt;get&lt;br /&gt;a word-in-edge-wise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(or is it &amp;quot;edge-ways&amp;quot;?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;see&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;understand&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;tell&amp;quot; ..&amp;quot;us where poetry is today, as well as where it&amp;#39;s heading.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:back into  cultivating your own &amp;quot;garden&amp;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1973300698851472344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5683521135945077026/comments/default/1973300698851472344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html?showComment=1249297666458#c1973300698851472344' 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/2009/08/photo-by-morbcn-is-poetry-written-to-be.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5683521135945077026' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5683521135945077026' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry></feed>