<?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.post5781245620606387146..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/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/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>40</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4039351907529019103</id><published>2009-04-30T22:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T22:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well put, Mr. Faville, and I tend to agree. I’ll g...</title><summary type='text'>Well put, Mr. Faville, and I tend to agree. I’ll give you this one. I happen to love Joyce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m not promoting idiocy or nursery rhymes, here, just clarity. As I’m sure you’re aware, I’m not the only one who has issues with contemporary ‘elliptical’ and ‘dissociative’ poetry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However…RS has invented the term ‘SoQ’. Allow me to invent one:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘CoI’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;College </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/4039351907529019103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/4039351907529019103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1241144160000#c4039351907529019103' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8178439801417495071</id><published>2009-04-30T10:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T10:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gary:&#xa;&#xa;&#xa;What you imply with your earlier posts is ...</title><summary type='text'>Gary:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What you imply with your earlier posts is that writers should deliberately condescend to their audience, by ensuring that they never write anything that might confuse or challenge it.  That&#39;s dumbing down.  Kooser dumbs down to his audience.  His poems foreground a naive, homespun populism designed to set up a dependency upon oversimplification.  People who generally don&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8178439801417495071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8178439801417495071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1241102760000#c8178439801417495071' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-584900147583259757</id><published>2009-04-29T21:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T21:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis:&#xa;&#xa;I believe our disagreement basically boil...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe our disagreement basically boils down to the old argument over form vs. substance. Rather than reiterate my opinions, I think I can more clearly explain my position by posting the following earlier comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first batch is from the Poetry Foundation site in reply to a post by Matthew Zapruder about criticism called ‘Show Your Work’. His post addressed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/584900147583259757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/584900147583259757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1241053200000#c584900147583259757' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9122161901263803356</id><published>2009-04-29T12:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T12:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Um, Curtis...I think you may have taken my remarks...</title><summary type='text'>Um, Curtis...I think you may have taken my remarks a little more seriously than I intended them. I was just having a little fun, which is why I go to blogs. I apologize if I offended you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have, though, made some excellent points which I would like to consider more carefully before responding.  I will point out, though, that you brought ‘morons’ into the discussion.  You also just </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/9122161901263803356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/9122161901263803356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1241022420000#c9122161901263803356' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2843710606064875987</id><published>2009-04-29T12:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T12:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>well....&#xa;&#xa;about 10 years ago I wrote a little &quot;poe...</title><summary type='text'>well....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;about 10 years ago I wrote a little &quot;poem&quot; and added a line drawing of my character  &quot;mu&quot; and sent it to Cid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here is what I sent:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/textimagepoetry/3233213204/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the poem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;searching the stars&lt;br /&gt;for intelligent life&lt;br /&gt;so little of it here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron links to the &quot;run&quot; that includes this  ...&lt;br</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/2843710606064875987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/2843710606064875987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1241020860000#c2843710606064875987' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1822637695153877669</id><published>2009-04-28T16:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T16:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Curtis…if I didn’t know better I’d think that you...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Curtis…if I didn’t know better I’d think that you were secretly following that notorious ‘SoQ’ site Harriet. In fact, as we speak, there is a raging debate going on about whether Robert Service, excluded from the canon, is a ‘children’s’ poet or not.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gary, I&#39;m unaware of the other debate.  Let&#39;s stick to our own argument.  So-called notions of &quot;popular&quot;, &quot;accessible&quot; poetry demarcate</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/1822637695153877669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/1822637695153877669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240949040000#c1822637695153877669' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-695288994079689117</id><published>2009-04-28T07:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T07:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s always been an establishment/ avant opposi...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s always been an establishment/ avant opposition throughout the history of poetry that the SoQ/post-avant references, though people can cite specific beginnings for an SoQ with certain (nebulous imho) characteristics and speculate whether the SoQ/post-avant model is an accurate representation of it today. You can&#39;t say that this opposition hasn&#39;t always existed because workshops in their </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/695288994079689117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/695288994079689117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240916580000#c695288994079689117' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7809254169954580161</id><published>2009-04-27T07:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T07:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>it takes&#xa;six-billion &#xa;&quot;poets&quot;&#xa;to change &#xa;one&#xa;type-...</title><summary type='text'>it takes&lt;br /&gt;six-billion &lt;br /&gt;&quot;poets&quot;&lt;br /&gt;to change &lt;br /&gt;one&lt;br /&gt;type-writer &lt;br /&gt;ribbon ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you might ask:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;what&#39;s a type-writer?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well  it IS NOT ONLY the instrument  ((of Second choice ( a pen/paper being the 1st)))&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it is ALSO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the person doing the writing...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;there:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/7809254169954580161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/7809254169954580161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240832880000#c7809254169954580161' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 27, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8468062977640107104</id><published>2009-04-26T22:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T22:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Brian, Gary, et al,&#xa;&#xa;I&#39;ve done a little thinking a...</title><summary type='text'>Brian, Gary, et al,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;ve done a little thinking about Bauerlein&#39;s blog post (&quot;Why Students Don&#39;t Like Poetry&quot;) for the Chronicle over at&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://structureandsurprise.wordpress.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, it concerns how the poetic turn jibes with and challenges the conversation Bauerlein initiates...  Perhaps it may be of interest?&lt;br /&gt;Mike</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8468062977640107104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8468062977640107104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240799640000#c8468062977640107104' title=''/><author><name>Michael Theune</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08121953357805380434</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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-971320363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9025967364869047109</id><published>2009-04-26T20:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T20:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;sounds a heck of a lot like what some said about ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;sounds a heck of a lot like what some said about Ornette Coleman&#39;s Free Jazz, or The Art Ensemble of Chicago&#39;s more way-out numbers, or the excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra, or Albert Ayler&#39;s screeching beauties, or Braxton&#39;s playing, etc. etc.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steven...what the hell are you talking about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn&#39;t that my whole point? That nobody has even heard of these people...or of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/9025967364869047109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/9025967364869047109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240793520000#c9025967364869047109' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3585719334799489133</id><published>2009-04-26T13:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T13:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh my Gary B. FitzGerald.&#xa;&#xa;Your whole thing about ...</title><summary type='text'>Oh my Gary B. FitzGerald.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your whole thing about poetry evolving to a point where you can&#39;t call it poetry anymore, the poets have destroyed, etc . . . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sounds a heck of a lot like what some said about Ornette Coleman&#39;s Free Jazz, or The Art Ensemble of Chicago&#39;s more way-out numbers, or the excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra, or Albert Ayler&#39;s screeching beauties, or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/3585719334799489133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/3585719334799489133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240765320000#c3585719334799489133' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6907969453543963184</id><published>2009-04-25T17:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T17:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis…if I didn’t know better I’d think that you ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis…if I didn’t know better I’d think that you were secretly following that notorious ‘SoQ’ site Harriet. In fact, as we speak, there is a raging debate going on about whether Robert Service, excluded from the canon, is a ‘children’s’ poet or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is also a fellow named Thomas Brady there who contends that Pound, Eliot and the ‘New Critics’ actually destroyed the public </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/6907969453543963184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/6907969453543963184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240693440000#c6907969453543963184' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2272311594661708355</id><published>2009-04-25T10:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T10:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gary:&#xa;&#xa;People said the same thing about Eliot and ...</title><summary type='text'>Gary:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People said the same thing about Eliot and Pound in the 1920&#39;s.  It was a joke.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poetry isn&#39;t &quot;too difficult&quot;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poetry taught in the schools continues a tradition begun in childhood, when we read jingle-jangle rhyme poems and narratives to the tots, indoctrinating them with cliches and notions of verse as tinker and bric-a-brac.  Then that continues in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/2272311594661708355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/2272311594661708355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240668300000#c2272311594661708355' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8254273864724130063</id><published>2009-04-24T17:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T17:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Brian, you have confirmed my very point. You said:...</title><summary type='text'>Brian, you have confirmed my very point. You said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The younger set mentioned in that Chronicle piece is made up of your average undergraduate student (read: not a creative writing student or even an English major) for whom Cummings&#39;s &quot;since feeling is first&quot; is the height of experimental verse.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Curtis, you have confirmed my very point. You said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“How does </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8254273864724130063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8254273864724130063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240608720000#c8254273864724130063' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8138725335324917033</id><published>2009-04-24T12:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T12:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gary:&#xa;&#xa;So this is a surprise?&#xa;&#xa;How does dumbing do...</title><summary type='text'>Gary:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this is a surprise?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does dumbing down poetry by teaching it as if it were a mathematical quiz game enliven or raise the bar for its appreciation?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The deepest experiences adolescents are likely to have is with the power of assertion.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was 15, I was most impressed by the WWI elegies of Owen, the mock-sad ironies of Prufrock, etc. &lt;br </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8138725335324917033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8138725335324917033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240589100000#c8138725335324917033' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3349054495133388558</id><published>2009-04-24T09:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-24T09:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apparently, the “younger set” are not fans of the ...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;Apparently, the “younger set” are not fans of the “younger set” poetry.&lt;/I&gt;You&#39;re comparing apples to some fruit from a planet on Omicron Persei 8 here. The younger set mentioned in that Chronicle piece is made up of your average undergraduate student (read: not a creative writing student or even an English major) for whom Cummings&#39;s &quot;since feeling is first&quot; is the height of experimental verse</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/3349054495133388558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/3349054495133388558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240578060000#c3349054495133388558' title=''/><author><name>Brian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15258964922666185002</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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-211582206"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 24, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8781004768157785374</id><published>2009-04-23T20:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T20:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seth Abramson said:&#xa;&#xa;“Amongst the younger set, the...</title><summary type='text'>Seth Abramson said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Amongst the younger set, the so-called SoQ has few if any highly-vocal defenders because it&#39;s a vastly-outmanned minority position in the contemporary American poetry community.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It would be fair to say, I suppose, that generally--more so than so-called post-avantism--third-way poetics is ascendant amongst the younger set.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8781004768157785374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8781004768157785374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240533540000#c8781004768157785374' 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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8674185246187745375</id><published>2009-04-23T11:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T11:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I came here this morning to remove my comment from...</title><summary type='text'>I came here this morning to remove my comment from last night, especially since I failed to note that it is &lt;I&gt;not&lt;/I&gt; pointed at anyone and is intentionally somewhat obscure; but all the comments around it seem to tone it down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Johannes concluded his comment with: &quot;Poetic lineages are simply not as stable as you would have them be.&quot;  Clearly, the instablility of &quot;poetic lineages&quot; is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8674185246187745375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8674185246187745375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240499400000#c8674185246187745375' title=''/><author><name>brian (baj) salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6Q75KCx78/SVJ_lyyAVpI/AAAAAAAAAOU/-rIvXaOmqOM/S220/azalea+004.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4679163255517946519</id><published>2009-04-23T10:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T10:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Labels, hyphens, and &quot;touchstones&quot; - anything but ...</title><summary type='text'>Labels, hyphens, and &quot;touchstones&quot; - anything but an actual taxonomy.  This is all thought-provoking, which is good - but isn&#39;t it coy and/or irresponsible to dump out a tag like &quot;SoQ&quot; and then say it&#39;s not your job to explain what it is or who&#39;s included?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this boils down to is that anybody who needs to feel like an &quot;outsider&quot; has to posit a &quot;center.&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s as old </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/4679163255517946519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/4679163255517946519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240496460000#c4679163255517946519' title=''/><author><name>Doodle</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04995332885940017913</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1604261415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8804911047549807055</id><published>2009-04-23T09:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T09:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>An exploration of &quot;writers [or at least poets] who...</title><summary type='text'>An exploration of &quot;writers [or at least poets] who are inarticulate&quot; would be fascinating!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&#39;t see it as a contradiction in terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some poets are too articulate for my tastes. Or is it just that they talk too much?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8804911047549807055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8804911047549807055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240492740000#c8804911047549807055' title=''/><author><name>eddie watkins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06339600880006987180</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CrM0a2L5tVU/SeyYTSNFAXI/AAAAAAAAABA/pRrhBEl0x_M/S220/IMG_1103.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-242849640"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1849110326222089102</id><published>2009-04-23T05:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T05:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>there is something incredibly sad about the ongoin...</title><summary type='text'>there is something incredibly sad about the ongoing pa/soq discussion (some lack) and i can&#39;t quite put my ideas forward about why it makes me sad - the label thing? well labels do exist to guide judgements, things like good and bad exist as labels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ron, your framing or positioning in these discussions is usually that the good is being pa and the bad is being soq.  but isn&#39;t that a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/1849110326222089102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/1849110326222089102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240477380000#c1849110326222089102' title=''/><author><name>Louise</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00134209058300460374</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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1993933462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8931007579216600287</id><published>2009-04-22T23:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T23:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think a lot of resistance to the SoQ/Post-avant ...</title><summary type='text'>I think a lot of resistance to the SoQ/Post-avant critique is an old-fashioned American resistance to labels. Personally, I think these terms will stick, at least SoQ. In fact, I won&#39;t be surprised if SoQ poets of the future call themselves &quot;quietists&quot; (or possibly &quot;New Quietists&quot;) as the innovative and experimental gain wider accceptance and quietism becomes a minority viewpoint. Hybrid poetics </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8931007579216600287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8931007579216600287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240458660000#c8931007579216600287' title=''/><author><name>robbins.sd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03974417078370801905</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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-408997444"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6213345007313584255</id><published>2009-04-22T19:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T19:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Or why do so many Quietists trace their root...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Or why do so many Quietists trace their roots back to various avants of decades past (the appropriation of Whitman &amp;amp; Dickinson being the most obvious), rather than to “mainstream” poetics from those same periods?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An excellent question.  It has to do with bravery: Who has been willing to break with convention, when?  The Quietists seem disconnected to tradition while </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/6213345007313584255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/6213345007313584255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240443900000#c6213345007313584255' title=''/><author><name>Ann_Bogle</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04999407261486108269</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iKW6iZxhQIc/SKugC5TpdCI/AAAAAAAAAZs/QxPCdjH2hNg/S220/AnnBogle.2006.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-32378532"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2896110441781981703</id><published>2009-04-22T17:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T17:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron: very good (and clarifying, for me) post.&#xa;&#xa;&quot;th...</title><summary type='text'>Ron: very good (and clarifying, for me) post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;those of us who tread softly with our words and our delivery of those words but hope - like all poets hope - to change people by showing them something new and fresh in the images we create.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that&#39;s just about enough out of you, Poppins</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/2896110441781981703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/2896110441781981703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240437480000#c2896110441781981703' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8141901017598065451</id><published>2009-04-22T17:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T17:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Intro It&#xa;&#xa;Diverge diverge&#xa;said the demiurge&#xa;for I ...</title><summary type='text'>Intro It&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diverge diverge&lt;br /&gt;said the demiurge&lt;br /&gt;for I am the scourge&lt;br /&gt;you cannot destroy.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deploy enjoy &lt;br /&gt;said the alter-Troy&lt;br /&gt;for I am the bouy&lt;br /&gt;you cannot submerge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;I&gt;Perhaps, if we coax&lt;br /&gt;all the poetry schools&lt;br /&gt;of I and of anti-I  &lt;br /&gt;to the seas and oceans&lt;br /&gt;of what and why, &lt;br /&gt;we can bring those bodies&lt;br /&gt;renewals of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8141901017598065451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5781245620606387146/comments/default/8141901017598065451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html?showComment=1240434240000#c8141901017598065451' title=''/><author><name>brian (baj) salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6Q75KCx78/SVJ_lyyAVpI/AAAAAAAAAOU/-rIvXaOmqOM/S220/azalea+004.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/04/note-that-appeared-in-my-comments.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5781245620606387146' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5781245620606387146' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2009"/></entry></feed>