<?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.post7982679764058449281..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/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.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>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7475371471557024172</id><published>2008-08-04T00:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T00:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ed, fine with me to let it decompose.  I can ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ed, fine with me to let it decompose.  I can ID with Dr. Williams having brought babies into the world myself.  As for Spring &amp;amp; All: it has changed my life just as much as my children changed my life.  You can think about it or not think about it--or make that spiritual leap from the world of Experience into the world of Existence.  Those who can&amp;#39;t understand, won&amp;#39;t.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/7475371471557024172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/7475371471557024172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217823960000#c7475371471557024172' title=''/><author><name>jeneva</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14796890614666454443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_E3tUrMZNEDA/SFwRNFg9A3I/AAAAAAAAAIA/CeNNqrDiOpU/S220/DCP_0704.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1656364242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2199532291606237882</id><published>2008-08-03T20:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T20:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>the good doctor in-vented things..he brought blood...</title><summary type='text'>the good doctor in-vented things..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he brought bloody babies into the world&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he brought a life&#39;s-breath into poems&lt;BR/&gt;why not just read the f.....g poems and let all of the horse-shit de:compose?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/2199532291606237882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/2199532291606237882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217809140000#c2199532291606237882' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-936637923733672647</id><published>2008-08-03T19:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T19:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t have a teaching job.  I work for the f...</title><summary type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t have a teaching job.  I work for the federal government. And I haven&amp;#39;t tried to publish the essay.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I loved holding that book in my hand, though.  It was an amazing experience--and I would never claim to know what Spring &amp;amp; All was &amp;#39;all about&amp;#39;--it&amp;#39;s not a work that is easily classified or one that breaks apart into neat little bundles of meaning.  It&amp;#39;s</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/936637923733672647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/936637923733672647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217806560000#c936637923733672647' title=''/><author><name>jeneva</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14796890614666454443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_E3tUrMZNEDA/SFwRNFg9A3I/AAAAAAAAAIA/CeNNqrDiOpU/S220/DCP_0704.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1656364242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8677965171441369169</id><published>2008-08-03T19:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T19:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>it is in the &quot;public domain&quot;any one can go to the ...</title><summary type='text'>it is in the &quot;public domain&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;any one can go to the Library of Congress and get a copy and do&lt;BR/&gt;a MA thesis or Pee Ache Dee dis-ertation on it and copyright it and get credentials as one knowing what &quot;it s&quot; all about! and then just publish it...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;how many more &quot;SPINS&quot;  on those &#39;broken lines&#39; do we need? ...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;...to justify some one&#39;s teaching job?  hardly enought income to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/8677965171441369169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/8677965171441369169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217804760000#c8677965171441369169' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8923954906720138879</id><published>2008-08-03T16:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T16:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Who owns the rights to Williams&#39; book?  Sometimes ...</title><summary type='text'>Who owns the rights to Williams&#39; book?  Sometimes they will let something go out fairly inexpensively, I imagine.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/8923954906720138879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/8923954906720138879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217795520000#c8923954906720138879' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4842005382708624921</id><published>2008-08-03T13:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T13:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Contact Press edition is the best.  While doin...</title><summary type='text'>The Contact Press edition is the best.  While doing my MFA thesis a few years ago, I went to the Library of Congress to look at the 1923 edition.  I was looking at the structure of Spring &amp;amp; All, and I suspected what I found, which is that the New Direction edition, while very serviceable as a basic text, had collapsed one crucial section break, which marks a major transition in the text, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/4842005382708624921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/4842005382708624921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217784420000#c4842005382708624921' title=''/><author><name>jeneva</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14796890614666454443</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_E3tUrMZNEDA/SFwRNFg9A3I/AAAAAAAAAIA/CeNNqrDiOpU/S220/DCP_0704.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1656364242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1219734143491528628</id><published>2008-08-02T11:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-02T11:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Williams was immoral.  He really was, and this see...</title><summary type='text'>Williams was immoral.  He really was, and this seems to be reflected throughout his verse, and I find it hard to take.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, Reznikoff had a sharp faith of a kind that never quite got separated from his Judaism.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Williams reminds me a little of Hitler -- with Hitler&#39;s painterly interest in things.  Hitler&#39;s watercolors in their own way are quite wonderful -- depicting </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/1219734143491528628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/1219734143491528628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217689260000#c1219734143491528628' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3680748670255373502</id><published>2008-08-01T15:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-01T15:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>one could get from their local library a copy of t...</title><summary type='text'>one could get from their local library a copy of &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the Williams,  documentary&lt;BR/&gt;from VOICES &amp;amp; VISIONS&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/Williams.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;may bring  &amp;quot;tears to your eyes&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3680748670255373502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3680748670255373502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217618640000#c3680748670255373502' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3056797343866188619</id><published>2008-08-01T11:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-01T11:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reznikoff is essentially a straightforward Imagist...</title><summary type='text'>Reznikoff is essentially a straightforward Imagist, with important insight(s) into his subject-matter.  He was a lawyer who studied history, and his Jewish angle lent specificity to his slice-of-life portraits and snapshots.  His poems demonstrably have &quot;subjects&quot; and the subjects--their meaning, our feeling about them--remain front and center in all his poems.  The metaphors and images serve as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3056797343866188619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3056797343866188619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217603820000#c3056797343866188619' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3953214751375192082</id><published>2008-07-31T23:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-31T23:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I want you to give REASONS why WCW is bett...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I want you to give REASONS why WCW is better than Reznikoff.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I want RS to do this, too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s one thing to have an opinion, but I want an argument, which means I would prefer it if there were REASONS given for the superiority of one text to another.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is because I want to trap you, if I can, and get you to take some kind of aesthetic position!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3953214751375192082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3953214751375192082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217561700000#c3953214751375192082' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5935982697224728648</id><published>2008-07-31T11:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-31T11:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WCW is worlds better than Reznikoff.  New Directio...</title><summary type='text'>WCW is worlds better than Reznikoff.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;New Directions handling of its long range list is shameful, at best.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Eliot Weinberger&#39;s stammering objections notwithstanding, New Directions books has behaved badly for 30 years.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/5935982697224728648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/5935982697224728648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217518320000#c5935982697224728648' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 31, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-985725298645263885</id><published>2008-07-30T22:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T22:21:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;That collection is so poorly done as to constitut...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;That collection is so poorly done as to constitute an act of vandalism.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;--Ron, your prose here is so hyperbolic as to constitute an act of hyperbole.  _Imaginations_ is a really, really useful book for teaching WCW.  So it&#39;s a little cramped.  We&#39;re not talked Guest or Palmer here.  WCW is not a white-space aesthete, imo....what&#39;s important is the poems and prose working together.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/985725298645263885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/985725298645263885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217470860001#c985725298645263885' title=''/><author><name>Nick</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01731095647196490836</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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-807648963"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-645968958074557298</id><published>2008-07-30T22:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T22:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is he better than Reznikoff?</title><summary type='text'>Is he better than Reznikoff?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/645968958074557298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/645968958074557298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217470860000#c645968958074557298' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3905277084775392067</id><published>2008-07-30T18:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T18:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Agreed!  When I taught it, I did so out of Imagina...</title><summary type='text'>Agreed!  When I taught it, I did so out of Imaginations, and was really sad I couldn&#39;t have taught out of the Frontier Press edition, which is my reading copy and much more pleasant to flip through--the dense presentation in Imaginations seems to deny the different paragraphs their independence, somehow.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I got the Frontier Press edition cheap at SPD a few years ago--they might still have</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3905277084775392067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3905277084775392067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217455680000#c3905277084775392067' title=''/><author><name>Stan Apps</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04844082750285483221</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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-467631662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7788252888202163792</id><published>2008-07-30T16:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T16:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The material text is a conundrum.The form in which...</title><summary type='text'>The material text is a conundrum.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The form in which a text is first served up defines the conditions of its first apprehension--how it is first seen and contextualized.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The first edition of Spring &amp;amp; All was rather modest-looking--being a light blue-grey paperback--but with a certain attractive plainness.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Frontier Press edition was in the same page size, but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/7788252888202163792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/7788252888202163792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217450700000#c7788252888202163792' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3255383410409025761</id><published>2008-07-30T16:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T16:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When I finally realized you weren&amp;#39;t telling me...</title><summary type='text'>When I finally realized you weren&amp;#39;t telling me there was a new edition of this, I felt really let down. I&amp;#39;ve been going back to Spring and All since I first encountered it in 1991. I read it in the two-volume Collected. I had bought Imaginations for a class, but I&amp;#39;ve never taken a shine to that volume. The two-volume set though, as this glaring white paper and enough dog ears and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3255383410409025761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/3255383410409025761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217449380000#c3255383410409025761' title=''/><author><name>jpc</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03810955298378231921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_ggSluWibBdw/RyST28UQgCI/AAAAAAAAAAw/AThJrUaUaA0/s320/JP_verbs.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-171107965"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8472119262392526534</id><published>2008-07-30T15:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T15:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring and All divine. But vandalism a bit steep, ...</title><summary type='text'>Spring and All divine. But vandalism a bit steep, non? Leading roomier than much in Imaginations? One can also look in the more spacious Collected Poems Volume One for full bloom. For a while we&#39;ve actually batted around the idea of an ND bibelot of the above -- bibelot series being pocket size editions (see recent Neruda Spain in Our Hearts). Perchance it will happen...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/8472119262392526534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/8472119262392526534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217447940000#c8472119262392526534' title=''/><author><name>JYofND</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07505175748722119649</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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1817118372"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9150187567742217197</id><published>2008-07-30T12:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T12:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Carlos died in 1963, and with the later editions h...</title><summary type='text'>Carlos died in 1963, and with the later editions he would&#39;ve renewed the copyright – not PD, I don&#39;t believe. Sorry!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/9150187567742217197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/9150187567742217197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217436300000#c9150187567742217197' title=''/><author><name>Daniel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7sPnkNOxvO8/SGmGcCgxysI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cNo_Qb4PqsE/s1600-R/gse_multipart17382.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1782317625299612201</id><published>2008-07-30T12:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T12:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And while my ornery juices are going, I&#39;ll take on...</title><summary type='text'>And while my ornery juices are going, I&#39;ll take on the primary point of your point, that WCW&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Spring &amp;amp; All&lt;/I&gt; i the &quot;apotheosis of modern writing.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t like any one creative works  being deemed the tippy top of any particular type of creative work. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And then there are Joyce&#39;s novels, or Beckett&#39;s trilogy of novels, or his &lt;I&gt;Godot&lt;/I&gt;.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Plus while I love &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/1782317625299612201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/1782317625299612201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217434320000#c1782317625299612201' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5098308657790926978</id><published>2008-07-30T11:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T11:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron asserts, &quot;The work has been available also sin...</title><summary type='text'>Ron asserts, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;The work has been available also since 1971 in the New Directions collection, &lt;I&gt;Imaginations&lt;/I&gt;, a volume that crams together Williams&#39; five most important prose works into what, to my eye, is a more or less unreadable crowd. That collection is so poorly done as to constitute an act of vandalism.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;First of all, you&#39;re welcome for letting you know about &lt;I&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/5098308657790926978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/5098308657790926978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217432460000#c5098308657790926978' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5943290233068084624</id><published>2008-07-30T10:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T10:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Great post, Ron. I happen to like/appreciate Imagi...</title><summary type='text'>Great post, Ron. I happen to like/appreciate Imaginations, but maybe because it&amp;#39;s the only place I knew could find Spring &amp;amp; All. Thanks for tip about Contact. I try to read S&amp;amp;A every year, so I will keep my eye out for the original version. It&amp;#39;s by far my favorite of WCW&amp;#39;s books and, like you, I hope someone (maybe ND?) will bring it out solo again soon.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/5943290233068084624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/5943290233068084624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217428740000#c5943290233068084624' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1922778716006250762</id><published>2008-07-30T08:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T08:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring and All  en toto in New Directions (c) 1938...</title><summary type='text'>Spring and All  en toto in New Directions (c) 1938,  1951 edition of   The Collected Earlier Poems&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;here is a bit of the fifth piece AFTER The Red Wheel Barrow:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Avenue of Poplars&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Leaves embrace&lt;BR/&gt;in the trees&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;it is a wordless&lt;BR/&gt;wordless&lt;BR/&gt;world&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;without personality&lt;BR/&gt;I do not&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;seek a path&lt;BR/&gt;I am still with&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gypsy lips </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/1922778716006250762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/1922778716006250762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217420940000#c1922778716006250762' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6174844313620450556</id><published>2008-07-30T07:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T07:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I had no idea that it was hard to come by. I bough...</title><summary type='text'>I had no idea that it was hard to come by. I bought mine at a Half-Priced Books a decade or so ago for less than $10.00. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s a big little book.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/6174844313620450556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7982679764058449281/comments/default/6174844313620450556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html?showComment=1217418720000#c6174844313620450556' 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/2008/07/i-have-been-rereading-spring-all-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7982679764058449281' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7982679764058449281' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 30, 2008"/></entry></feed>