<?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.post634341323342933776..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/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-953442898433609735</id><published>2008-06-25T23:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T23:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To G.M. Palmer:We appear to be kindred spirits. Br...</title><summary type='text'>To G.M. Palmer:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We appear to be kindred spirits. Bringing (good) poetry back to the average person has been my war cry for many years now.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I posted the following on the Poets.net Forum today:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;&#39;This is why the final contest judge should read MOST or even ALL contest entries.&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No! This is why the poet should give up contests altogether.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How can one be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/953442898433609735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/953442898433609735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214450280000#c953442898433609735' 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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3516988218154241841</id><published>2008-06-25T22:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T22:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s fun to think of the New York Review of Books ...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s fun to think of the New York Review of Books crowd as &quot;illiterate&quot;. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;d personally be wary of calling people &quot;damaged&quot; if they cannot appreciate advanced literature or modernist music or whatever.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If someone cannot respond to Roberta Beary&#39;s haiku or senryu though, I might, after further observation of the individual, speak of severe &quot;damage&quot;, as such people might seem </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3516988218154241841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3516988218154241841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214447400000#c3516988218154241841' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4697935279441580761</id><published>2008-06-25T20:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T20:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curious. From the paraphrase of Mungiu&#39;s (or Mongi...</title><summary type='text'>Curious. From the paraphrase of Mungiu&#39;s (or Mongiu&#39;s?) inteview, I wondered about any overlap with the Dogme 95 &quot;vow of chastity&quot; (no sound apart from the images; no temporal or geographical alienation), though the motive with the Dogme group as I understood it wasn&#39;t necessarily some chimerical cinematic realism, but...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wikipedia &quot;See also&#39;s&quot; for Dogme 95 include &quot;Minimalism, Realism (</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4697935279441580761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4697935279441580761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214440680000#c4697935279441580761' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-166041266600359531</id><published>2008-06-25T20:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T20:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Joseph -- Dante and Chaucer&#39;s choice to write in t...</title><summary type='text'>Joseph -- Dante and Chaucer&#39;s choice to write in the vulgar tongue instead of the courtly tongue (Latin or, in Chaucer&#39;s case he could have gotten away with French) proves they weren&#39;t just writing for elites -- they wanted to reach a wider audience.  Instead of their choice being a dumbing down, they are seen as visionaries.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think that a truly literate American art of language can </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/166041266600359531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/166041266600359531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214440020000#c166041266600359531' title=''/><author><name>G. M. Palmer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515043039690357593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1949224702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7799432223863442171</id><published>2008-06-25T20:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T20:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s funny for the first time I understand why you...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s funny for the first time I understand why you&#39;re doing the crowbar clue.  Hey, it&#39;s your right.  I just wish I got it better.  Although I do love the Chinese Notebook (easy if you&#39;ve pored through Wittgenstein).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is that your equivalent of a Billy Collins?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Everyone should have the right to experiment.  Pound said the right to experiment includes the right to fail.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/7799432223863442171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/7799432223863442171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214439660000#c7799432223863442171' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6225410639738849702</id><published>2008-06-25T19:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T19:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Romania!geeze  my mother&#39;s dad got the familay out...</title><summary type='text'>Romania!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;geeze  my mother&#39;s dad got the familay out of Russia .. a pogram.. and got to Romania (where the caves along the Danube are  that what&#39;s his name takes tourists to  (he wrote Juniper Fuse)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;anyway  they walked across Europe and got to Manhattan&lt;BR/&gt;where my mother was born &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in1915  and grew up in The Hebrew Orphan Asylum where Charles Reznikoff used to come to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/6225410639738849702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/6225410639738849702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214435880000#c6225410639738849702' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4019869676353429962</id><published>2008-06-25T18:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T18:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a picayune point for g. m. palmer: Dante and ...</title><summary type='text'>Just a picayune point for g. m. palmer: Dante and Chaucer both wrote for courtly and/or elite audiences. If Beowulf came down from an oral tradition (one theory), its first audiences were probably courtly; if it was composed by Christian monks based on an earlier, oral tradition, it&#39;s fair to say that the monks were aiming for a wider, not necessarily courtly audience—but still an elite one: </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4019869676353429962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4019869676353429962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214434560000#c4019869676353429962' 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/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8618127596948294207</id><published>2008-06-25T16:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T16:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>poetry something that can only work for the masses...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;poetry something that can only work for the masses under two circumstances –&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;♥   the poet her- or himself is capable only of a handful of surface effects (the Kooser / Collins road)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;♥   the poet her- or himself makes conscious decisions to build in hooks that give the appearance of dumbing it down for the “average Joe” (the Robert Creeley / Judy Grahn / Frank O’Hara road)&lt;/I&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/8618127596948294207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/8618127596948294207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214425020000#c8618127596948294207' title=''/><author><name>G. M. Palmer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515043039690357593</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1949224702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4086578036460099947</id><published>2008-06-25T15:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T15:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Exactly who or what instantiated the Romanian Revo...</title><summary type='text'>Exactly who or what instantiated the Romanian Revolution of Christmas 1989 still isn&#39;t clear, nor is it clear exactly who shot the Ceausescus.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When I was working on my Codrescu book I was in touch with a lot of Romanians (late 1990s and the first 5 years of this century).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It seems to have been a schism within the Romanian government at least at first.  Possibly this was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4086578036460099947'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4086578036460099947'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214422140000#c4086578036460099947' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3463357800570650684</id><published>2008-06-25T13:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T13:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Could you explain why Joyce&#39;s use of a &quot;19th ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Could you explain why Joyce&#39;s use of a &quot;19th Century conception of language as philology as the ground for the work that is built on it&quot; was &quot;a fatal mistake.&quot;(?) &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;L. Hejinian declares: &quot;Language is nothing but meanings, and meanings are nothing but a flow of contexts. Such contexts rarely coalesce into images,rarely come to terms. They are transitions, transmutations, the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3463357800570650684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3463357800570650684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214413920000#c3463357800570650684' title=''/><author><name>LM Rivera</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03593189117151224128</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_KGRM4WkDKnc/SDp8tUFzFXI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ogJDCbqJN8c/S220/hyena+leg.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1947898231"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5307837987452238168</id><published>2008-06-25T12:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T12:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There is not only an elitism in Joseph&#39;s:&quot;the moro...</title><summary type='text'>There is not only an elitism in Joseph&#39;s:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;the moronic &quot;conceptual poetics&quot; crowd as they madly type up a today&#39;s edition of the New York Times or the text of street signs that happen to adorn their neighborhoods.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But a serious misreading, of say, Kenneth Goldsmith. Goldsmith&#39;s American Trilogy is only half, maybe, about the act of transcription. The other half of that work is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/5307837987452238168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/5307837987452238168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214412360000#c5307837987452238168' title=''/><author><name>LM Rivera</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03593189117151224128</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_KGRM4WkDKnc/SDp8tUFzFXI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ogJDCbqJN8c/S220/hyena+leg.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1947898231"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3008167009930501178</id><published>2008-06-25T12:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T12:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I never said, nor intimated, that the work...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I never said, nor intimated, that the work of Creeley &amp; O&#39;Hara was in any way compromised. That&#39;s your value judgment, not mine. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Joe, The problem with &lt;I&gt;Finnegans Wake&lt;/I&gt; -- which my kids were having read to them in kindergarten with no great difficulty -- is not that it&#39;s elitist, but that Joyce uses a 19th Century conception of language as philology as the ground for the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3008167009930501178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3008167009930501178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214411700000#c3008167009930501178' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5505005407910266167</id><published>2008-06-25T12:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T12:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Some do so in terms that enable them to reach bro...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Some do so in terms that enable them to reach broader audiences, but others don’t avail themselves of that choice, taking what I might call the Stein / Zukofsky / Beckett / Joyce / Watten road instead. The idea that one road (the Creeley / Grahn et al road) is morally superior to the Stein et al road is, I think, defensible only – and I do mean only – if you think that the population of the US, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/5505005407910266167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/5505005407910266167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214411580000#c5505005407910266167' 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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-456416028818301058</id><published>2008-06-25T11:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T11:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;The one function — the only one — that no other g...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;The one function — the only one — that no other genre can take from poetry is its role as &lt;I&gt;the art of language without limit&lt;/I&gt;.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyone who&#39;s read or even attempted &lt;I&gt;Finnegans Wake&lt;/I&gt; knows how specious this claim is. The fact is that none of the metagenres (poetry and prose) are limited by anything but the intentions and abilities of the writer and the interest and patience of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/456416028818301058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/456416028818301058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214408340000#c456416028818301058' 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/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3141148691706032834</id><published>2008-06-25T11:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T11:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I often think of Herzog&#39;s claim that he is motivat...</title><summary type='text'>I often think of Herzog&#39;s claim that he is motivated to construct &quot;a visual vocabulary&quot; for understanding our world. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think this is a really well-written and inspiring post, but I am having trouble seeing the relationship between the film and your avant-garde poetics. It seems like two posts stuck together, and the film doesn&#39;t really fit the poetics you are talking about. &lt;BR/&gt;That </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3141148691706032834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/3141148691706032834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214407500000#c3141148691706032834' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Dillon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175884937968045605</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634681312"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4150898132954344427</id><published>2008-06-25T10:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T10:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Your appropriation of Creeley and O&#39;Hara as an ill...</title><summary type='text'>Your appropriation of Creeley and O&#39;Hara as an illustration of a brand of compromised poetics, i.e., of those who &quot;[make] conscious decisions to build in hooks that give the appearance of dumbing it down for the &#39;average Joe&#39;&quot; is certainly one of the most shocking assertions I&#39;ve read here.  Even a gross over-simplification of what poetic composition is, and how differing kinds of address can </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4150898132954344427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/4150898132954344427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214404440000#c4150898132954344427' 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/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5507666826515005475</id><published>2008-06-25T09:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T09:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>“In a sense, Mongiu recognizes that, just as a poe...</title><summary type='text'>“In a sense, Mongiu recognizes that, just as a poem is a “machine made of words,” to quote Dr. Williams, a film likewise is a “machine made of cuts &amp; scenes””&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would probably re-phrase this.  By no means does a film necessitate “cuts” (though most include them; Hitchcock’s “Rope” is the first film that I’m aware of to attempt a full long-shot as a whole movie), or “scenes” (again, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/5507666826515005475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/634341323342933776/comments/default/5507666826515005475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html?showComment=1214399520000#c5507666826515005475' title=''/><author><name>stvictor</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04573579170800347515</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/06/otilia-anamaria-marinca-contemplates.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-634341323342933776' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/634341323342933776' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2032294797"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2008"/></entry></feed>