<?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.post6969248527467191418..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/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-803997905104403850</id><published>2007-07-02T10:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-02T10:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Depends on which side of the hyphen you empha...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Depends on which side of the hyphen you emphasize, I suppose.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Jordan</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/803997905104403850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/803997905104403850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183386900000#c803997905104403850' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 02, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4612489235434951895</id><published>2007-06-30T14:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-30T14:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow.  Well, okay.  I guess we&#39;re never going to ag...</title><summary type='text'>Wow.  Well, okay.  I guess we&#39;re never going to agree about categories, which is cool.  I suppose I should have known that back when we couldn&#39;t agree about whether Robert Louis Stevenson was Scottish.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Cheers.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/4612489235434951895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/4612489235434951895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183227060000#c4612489235434951895' title=''/><author><name>Archambeau</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.lakeforest.edu/images/userImages/larson/Page_5032/archambeau.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-530470673"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6366572797540253455</id><published>2007-06-30T00:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-30T00:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The late Dan Quisenbery is the country&#39;s most belo...</title><summary type='text'>The late Dan Quisenbery is the country&#39;s most beloved baseball-player-turned-poet. Which is why I didn&#39;t mention it here. Actually, Wright&#39;s baseball career is the only thing about him that could be described as minor league. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/6366572797540253455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/6366572797540253455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183177860000#c6366572797540253455' 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/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4453596774106876172</id><published>2007-06-30T00:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-30T00:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I would certainly include both Pickard (whom I fir...</title><summary type='text'>I would certainly include both Pickard (whom I first met in 1972) and Meyer (whom I met when I was a student at UC and he had just graduated from Bard, before he&#39;d met Jonatham Williams even) among any list of post-avants. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Dao of course is postie-avant-la-lettre&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/4453596774106876172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/4453596774106876172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183177740000#c4453596774106876172' 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/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5017830821295112463</id><published>2007-06-29T23:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T23:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t know if it is quite right to call Flood a ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t know if it is quite right to call Flood a &quot;post-avant house.&quot;  They&#39;re a bit broader, or more eclectic, than that.  I mean, if you look at their list, you&#39;ll see they&#39;ve got Robert Adamson and Tom Pickard and Daode Jing rendered into couplets by Thomas Meyer and other interesting, cool things to go along with the (interesting, cool) books by people you&#39;d call post-avant.  I think this is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/5017830821295112463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/5017830821295112463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183174260000#c5017830821295112463' title=''/><author><name>Archambeau</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.lakeforest.edu/images/userImages/larson/Page_5032/archambeau.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-530470673"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2560041808314329414</id><published>2007-06-29T12:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T12:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron--I say this elsewhere enough that I might as w...</title><summary type='text'>Ron--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I say this elsewhere enough that I might as well say it here for once. Although I&#39;m glad to see you giving something akin to a fair shake to a poet outside of your normal ken, your continual surprise that poets without an avant or post-avant pedigree can write poems that meet your test of merit is just plain weird. Doubtless, Ron, your own poetry and that of your fellow travelers </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/2560041808314329414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/2560041808314329414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183135200000#c2560041808314329414' title=''/><author><name>Jasper Bernes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15593713553275884570</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/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-331242286"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7583448425369470853</id><published>2007-06-29T10:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T10:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>*Aggressively Minor*! Didn&#39;t they tour with Black ...</title><summary type='text'>*Aggressively Minor*! Didn&#39;t they tour with Black Flag, Max Headroom? I know you and Ron are replacing Harold Bloom as tastemasters to the Universe and all. But One poet calling Another poet Minor is like One Smurf Calling Another Smurf BLUE.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Aggressively Minor, according to their Wikipedia page, once hit Billboard&#39;s Top 100 with a song &quot;My Opinions Got Me Rabies.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/7583448425369470853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/7583448425369470853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183128240000#c7583448425369470853' title=''/><author><name>Jim Behrle</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08581472923510160635</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t307/jbehrle/-42.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-108210959"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7814209806085893290</id><published>2007-06-28T20:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T20:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron -- Maybe we were being a bit too subtle in the...</title><summary type='text'>Ron -- Maybe we were being a bit too subtle in the intro to EVERY GOODBYE AIN&#39;T GONE when we wrote of poets we wished we could have included.  Jay Wright, much the way he declines to be recorded or to do interviews, decided late in his career not to agree to be in any more anthologies. I really do hope he will relent one day, as it was anthologies that kept his work alive during the many years </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/7814209806085893290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/7814209806085893290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183075560000#c7814209806085893290' title=''/><author><name>Aldon Lynn Nielsen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02149592761314695817</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2344/2688/320/DSC01144.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1409052359"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8685022113833488055</id><published>2007-06-28T17:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T17:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wright hasn&#39;t been entirely outside the ken of &quot;ou...</title><summary type='text'>Wright hasn&#39;t been entirely outside the ken of &quot;our&quot; poetry world. He&#39;s been an important poet for Nathaniel Mackey, and John Clarke also valued his work--I believe I first saw his name in &lt;I&gt;Hambone&lt;/I&gt; or &lt;I&gt;Intent&lt;/I&gt;. He was also one of the invited poets at the NPF&#39;s sixties conference (Summer 2000), introduced by Lorenzo Thomas. I got the sense then that many of the attendees knew and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/8685022113833488055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/8685022113833488055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183065780000#c8685022113833488055' title=''/><author><name>mongibeddu</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15189399154734690695</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/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-84634498"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6556821131605665949</id><published>2007-06-28T12:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T12:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;yourgrey lost tired bewilderedbrother, unused, un...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;your&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;grey lost tired bewildered&lt;BR/&gt;brother, unused, untaken--&lt;BR/&gt;hated by love, and dead...&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How many adjectives in these four lines by Creeley?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/6556821131605665949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/6556821131605665949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183047660000#c6556821131605665949' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898</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/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1218785319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3620285541108922478</id><published>2007-06-28T09:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-28T09:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I know you&#39;re committed to foregrounding the liter...</title><summary type='text'>I know you&#39;re committed to foregrounding the literary history and politics behind every publishing venture you cover, Ron, but what a different context you might have provided just by mentioning that Wright is the country&#39;s best-loved baseball player-turned-poet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for the book itself: not bad at all, but so aggressively &lt;I&gt;minor&lt;/I&gt;... &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What would happen if when we read books </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/3620285541108922478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6969248527467191418/comments/default/3620285541108922478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html?showComment=1183038120000#c3620285541108922478' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/jay-wright-is-not-sort-of-poet-you.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6969248527467191418' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6969248527467191418' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 28, 2007"/></entry></feed>