<?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.post7123181249604589303..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/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.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>24</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6487331934786903727</id><published>2009-01-21T03:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T03:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What the fuck is history? Oh, yeah, that fiction w...</title><summary type='text'>What the fuck is history? Oh, yeah, that fiction we all agree to go along with, like everything else.  Like your &quot;test&quot;, which proves what, exactly?  Oh yes, that&#39;s right: you are right!  I&#39;m 27 and thus can actually recall my own adolescence.  I don&#39;t just dislike the associations you made to a time in &quot;your&quot; particular story, but I&#39;m defensive, yes, of youth and all of the negative signs that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6487331934786903727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6487331934786903727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232527080000#c6487331934786903727' title=''/><author><name>bajo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05385584899832745056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UMqB2Gm6eTU/SPhPPcRjpjI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Yr4yo3k152w/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-972262772"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 21, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7528844534927176520</id><published>2009-01-20T18:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-20T18:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The year I first went to the University of Arizona...</title><summary type='text'>The year I first went to the University of Arizona, before the official advent of their writing program their, Drummond Hadley had that summer gone off to the Vancouver Poetry Festival (1963), and returned home with a trunk full of tapes from all the readings, lectures and panels. Drummond gave them to the library at the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center. I listened to hours of those tapes. What I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/7528844534927176520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/7528844534927176520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232493180000#c7528844534927176520' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_n2Wex_QRk70/R8WsKZZ0emI/AAAAAAAAAG0/RaDXpHkOIbA/S220/2008_January_Debbie%27s%2BLee%2Band%2BBobby.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1195962581809988889</id><published>2009-01-16T11:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T11:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It strikes me that the point of Ketjak has nothing...</title><summary type='text'>It strikes me that the point of Ketjak has nothing to do with its specific referents.  There&#39;s no underlying &quot;narrative&quot; that would make what it does more &quot;sensible&quot; as fact, than what it accomplishes through method.  If you see what I mean.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The implication of that style has never been adequately described, unless I&#39;ve missed it somewhere.  Has Marjorie done that somewhere?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/1195962581809988889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/1195962581809988889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232123220000#c1195962581809988889' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997007970139217286</id><published>2009-01-16T11:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T11:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>bajo:Good!  Be defensive!  That&#39;s a lot better tha...</title><summary type='text'>bajo:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Good!  Be defensive!  That&#39;s a lot better than accepting anything people tell you at any age.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was an adolescent myself once, and that&#39;s exactly what I&#39;m describing--my own case.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The best writers reject everything in their first attempts, because the egoist&#39;s vision of the world is unique.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All writers are properly egocentric.  Their view is the only </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/7997007970139217286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/7997007970139217286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232122680000#c7997007970139217286' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-24840222232155337</id><published>2009-01-16T00:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-16T00:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks Ron, and I&#39;m REALLY glad I had it wrong, as...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks Ron, and I&#39;m REALLY glad I had it wrong, as it resulted in learning about two sentences.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think that only leaves -- what -- about several hundred more sentences to go?!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, while I was curious about the earliest &lt;I&gt;Ketjak&lt;/I&gt; sentence, and happy to learn about the Dobro one too (I should have figured a Marin County connection what with Richardson Bay in that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/24840222232155337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/24840222232155337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232084460000#c24840222232155337' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8912227056347476022</id><published>2009-01-15T23:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T23:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven,The Dobro sentence, as you put it, was firs...</title><summary type='text'>Steven,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Dobro sentence, as you put it, was first inscribed in one of those Marin county transit buses on my work at the Committee for Prisoner Humanity &amp;amp; Justice. By 1974, when I wrote it, I&amp;#39;d passed those houseboats on my way to that job probably 400 times. Ten years earlier, I&amp;#39;d spent some time at van Dammes at Charlie Brown&amp;#39;s Teton Tea parties when they moved from </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/8912227056347476022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/8912227056347476022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232081160000#c8912227056347476022' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2114339695013225649</id><published>2009-01-15T19:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T19:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Began my first solid time of (post-graduate) teach...</title><summary type='text'>Began my first solid time of (post-graduate) teaching last year. The material conditions of writing are some things I got my students to think about and write about; it seemed to allow them to engage with poetry in a way they hadn&#39;t thought of before, especially those whose real focus was fiction, not poetry. To be pushed to write in ways they had not used before produced some interesting work. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/2114339695013225649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/2114339695013225649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232067420000#c2114339695013225649' title=''/><author><name>Jill Jones</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11239553936363212721</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_YUbPObEJr5U/R3dElureygI/AAAAAAAAACg/dVQsr70Dngc/S220/Paris+37_2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1567396125"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1339262040715928871</id><published>2009-01-15T19:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T19:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Ultimately the poems you or anyone will write wil...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Ultimately the poems you or anyone will write will be the poems you (or anyone) needs.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Well, I posit that there are some poems are not poems anyone needs, and actually block what poetry can do. I&#39;ll go way out there and say an easy example of that would be the poetry (and theory) of Ted Kooser. The less said the better. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;WV: tempti</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/1339262040715928871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/1339262040715928871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232066220000#c1339262040715928871' title=''/><author><name>John Gallaher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02112997671155171626</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3362/3683/320/JGlessCloseWithEffect.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6489356564496556138</id><published>2009-01-15T19:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T19:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Faville,Adolescence, suddenly an insult?  Must...</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Faville,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Adolescence, suddenly an insult?  Must your tone be so condescending? Booooooring!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks Ron.  I&#39;ve made a poster of some of these things you said in the entry and have placed them on the walls in my apartment.  You are inspiring and accessible.  You are the wheelchair ramp sign.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6489356564496556138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6489356564496556138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232064900000#c6489356564496556138' title=''/><author><name>bajo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05385584899832745056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UMqB2Gm6eTU/SPhPPcRjpjI/AAAAAAAAAAs/Yr4yo3k152w/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-972262772"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7439756954806060627</id><published>2009-01-15T18:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T18:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron reveals . . . &quot;. . . and sat on the roof of ou...</title><summary type='text'>Ron reveals . . . &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;. . . and sat on the roof of our apartment building on Highland Place in Berkeley, usually watching the sun set over downtown San Francisco, constantly writing and rewriting what I hoped someday would become “the perfect” paragraph. Tho I worked on this project years before I would begin &lt;I&gt;Ketjak&lt;/I&gt;, there is one (incomplete) sentence in that work taken directly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/7439756954806060627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/7439756954806060627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232061960000#c7439756954806060627' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6682785981113954218</id><published>2009-01-15T18:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T18:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, yeah...Ron&#39;s post.Teaching poetry: ridiculous!...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, yeah...Ron&#39;s post.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Teaching poetry: ridiculous!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poets are born, not taught. Does one teach a bird to fly? Did anyone teach Newton about gravity?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6682785981113954218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6682785981113954218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232061240000#c6682785981113954218' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8366919203890217272</id><published>2009-01-15T17:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T17:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Good catch, Mr. Fama.After reading my print-out of...</title><summary type='text'>Good catch, Mr. Fama.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;After reading my print-out of this post and its subsequent replies, I just logged back in to snag you on the Rimbaud date and found your correction.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was recently accused by a French acquaintance of being a lot like Rimbaud. I told him this was &#39;merde de cheval&#39;. Rimbaud, hell! I didn&#39;t even like Rocky.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/8366919203890217272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/8366919203890217272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232059800000#c8366919203890217272' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-280315699209518145</id><published>2009-01-15T16:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T16:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>very useful post!  much appreciated.</title><summary type='text'>very useful post!  much appreciated.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/280315699209518145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/280315699209518145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232053860000#c280315699209518145' title=''/><author><name>rod</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02438768322678002757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBPJBohKVh4/SP-nE8laQRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/rTpR0wv05g4/S220/woody.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820400993"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3176679105290676293</id><published>2009-01-15T15:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T15:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks.</title><summary type='text'>Thanks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/3176679105290676293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/3176679105290676293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232050440000#c3176679105290676293' title=''/><author><name>Clay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18037228284351071681</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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2124982730"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-30899569559842534</id><published>2009-01-15T14:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T14:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>May I correct a typo in my comment regarding the R...</title><summary type='text'>May I correct a typo in my comment regarding the Rimbaud letter?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The typo resulted in the year being an entire century off.  Quite a doozy.  The correct date of the letter is 13 May 1871.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But you all knew that, right?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/30899569559842534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/30899569559842534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232046900000#c30899569559842534' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4248632041338160020</id><published>2009-01-15T11:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T11:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And Ron,Dickinson is more, more than the goddess o...</title><summary type='text'>And Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dickinson is more, more than the goddess of abrupt discontinuities. Although you may cherish best that quality, see it as most taken by some today, I think a bee in clover might read Dickinson and see:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Concision.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The short line.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The bold image.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/4248632041338160020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/4248632041338160020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232038620000#c4248632041338160020' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6330979876442635104</id><published>2009-01-15T11:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T11:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I hope Joshua Marie Wilkinson asks Clayton Eshlema...</title><summary type='text'>I hope Joshua Marie Wilkinson asks Clayton Eshleman for a contribution to the teaching poetry anthology.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Eshleman&#39;s essay on teaching poetry, re-published last year in his Black Widow selceted writings &lt;I&gt;The Grindstone of Rapport&lt;/I&gt;, distills decades of experience.  Experience teaching, experience writing.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Eshleman&#39;s views ought to be of interest to anyone interested in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6330979876442635104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/6330979876442635104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232037120000#c6330979876442635104' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-331601247486310488</id><published>2009-01-15T11:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T11:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I love the elephant simile, I&#39;ve experienced it, h...</title><summary type='text'>I love the elephant simile, I&#39;ve experienced it, have a few elephants upon me still. But I have a problem with &quot;a writer must own everything he or she does.&quot; Seem programmatic to me. Maybe you could elaborate.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/331601247486310488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/331601247486310488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232035440000#c331601247486310488' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2124339361"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4027160999172121335</id><published>2009-01-15T10:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T10:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, This is a great post for the young writer and...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is a great post for the young writer and I am interested in reading more. Will you be contributing to this anthology? I trust you will keep us updated (as you always do).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tying this back to the Paris Review, there are great similarities between your insistence on the materiality of the writing process and the PR interviewer&#39;s curiosity on the same topic. I think </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/4027160999172121335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/4027160999172121335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232033400000#c4027160999172121335' title=''/><author><name>pd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00985802485996146079</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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-765084016"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2077319412519886091</id><published>2009-01-15T10:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T10:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is absolutely terrific.  And true.  Thank you...</title><summary type='text'>This is absolutely terrific.  And true.  Thank you, Ron.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/2077319412519886091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/2077319412519886091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232033280000#c2077319412519886091' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-214834867461154459</id><published>2009-01-15T09:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T09:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The entire universeand everything in itis somethin...</title><summary type='text'>The entire universe&lt;BR/&gt;and everything in it&lt;BR/&gt;is something of a &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;flurblurtive&lt;BR/&gt;schartafacio&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Once you learn that,&lt;BR/&gt;all the little crab head&lt;BR/&gt;sillimans and &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;wothooeverbeebulbawbuls&lt;BR/&gt;will look even more&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;quat&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in the tidepools&lt;BR/&gt;of the dreaming&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;narrt&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;yours,&lt;BR/&gt;Merline Chaokunstone&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(in Morciable)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/214834867461154459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/214834867461154459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232029860000#c214834867461154459' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-354951983029466607</id><published>2009-01-15T09:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T09:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dickinson is the goddess of abrupt discontinuities...</title><summary type='text'>Dickinson is the goddess of abrupt discontinuities. The line from her leads not just to Susan Howe, but to Spicer, to Watten, to the New Sentence. That is a very different post-avant world than that begot by Whitman, which most of the Beat &amp;amp; post-beat modes of write can be traced back to.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/354951983029466607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/354951983029466607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232028780000#c354951983029466607' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1641989941091726282</id><published>2009-01-15T07:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T07:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with nearly everything you say right down ...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with nearly everything you say right down to the penultimate paragraph, when you suddenly change horses and start pontificating about Quietude and the necessity of &quot;placing&quot; every poet into &quot;the universe.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No poet who begins seriously to write at, say, age 17 or 20 or even 23, is fully qualified to describe their native language literature.  To begin with, they haven&#39;t lived </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/1641989941091726282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/1641989941091726282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232023860000#c1641989941091726282' 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/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-766811886352095060</id><published>2009-01-15T04:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T04:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Great Books&quot;? Fuck that.</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Great Books&quot;? Fuck that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/766811886352095060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7123181249604589303/comments/default/766811886352095060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html?showComment=1232010180000#c766811886352095060' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Apps</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11387237324417934642</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-have-been-asked-by-joshua-marie.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123181249604589303' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7123181249604589303' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1272311462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2009"/></entry></feed>