<?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.post8042445563001681119..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/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6444089426063634847</id><published>2008-05-21T19:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-21T19:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;&#39;Conceptual poetry&#39; is as generally as shallow as...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;&#39;Conceptual poetry&#39; is as generally as shallow as high-concept film, only not as entertaining&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;not entertaining?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i&#39;ve had major LOL&#39;s when eyeballing/earholing some &#39;ceptual poetics.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;funny in the same way as how some fluxus was hi-comedy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i consider the practice to be an ultimate inversion of the language-power grid.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;seriously amusing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/6444089426063634847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/6444089426063634847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1211410860000#c6444089426063634847' title=''/><author><name>troylloyd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14706450196335510065</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_n-IRSYagfYk/SDCABr3syNI/AAAAAAAAAAw/weVi5gqdgms/S220/monkee.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-81611072"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4828835608994456474</id><published>2008-05-18T07:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-18T07:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&#39;Conceptual poetry&#39; is as generally as shallow as ...</title><summary type='text'>&#39;Conceptual poetry&#39; is as generally as shallow as high-concept film, only not as entertaining.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/4828835608994456474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/4828835608994456474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1211111520000#c4828835608994456474' 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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1214758214200281473</id><published>2008-05-17T14:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-17T14:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WHOSEthriftshop chairwith paisley hippy cushionsin...</title><summary type='text'>WHOSE&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thriftshop chair&lt;BR/&gt;with paisley hippy cushions&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in pencil&lt;BR/&gt;with the pattern left&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;half-drawn these&lt;BR/&gt;thirty something years&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(for RS: a kind of folk art obsessively &quot;lying on its left side&quot;)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/1214758214200281473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/1214758214200281473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1211049780000#c1214758214200281473' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8783545212525447968</id><published>2008-05-16T14:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T14:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There probably is ample evidence that women did (d...</title><summary type='text'>There probably is ample evidence that women did (do) not learn to read and write at the same rate as men since many were not given the opportunity to do so, which is still the case in many parts of the world.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/8783545212525447968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/8783545212525447968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210963620000#c8783545212525447968' title=''/><author><name>chippens</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319797537274875566</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_o38OzkCcOW4/SCUOin8F2AI/AAAAAAAAAAU/einfVZlA17Q/S220/DSC_0041.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-197089391"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4011959417208623708</id><published>2008-05-16T13:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T13:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Is there evidence that women did not learn to rea...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Is there evidence that women did not learn to read and write at the same rate as men?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m guessing that&#39;s probably the case, right?  Since they weren&#39;t taught as much in the bad old days?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyway, when Ron says &quot;the world of writing&quot;, I think he&#39;s talking about the world of published writing, which as he points out has long been gender-biased.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/4011959417208623708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/4011959417208623708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210960620000#c4011959417208623708' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3846658384954654798</id><published>2008-05-16T12:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T12:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The notion of non-expressive poetry is idiotic. An...</title><summary type='text'>The notion of non-expressive poetry is idiotic. Any speech that isn&#39;t expressive—i.e., that doesn&#39;t spring from some kind of intentionality (scraps of language randomly generated by computers, for example, or the uncontrollable tics of Tourette&#39;s sufferers)—isn&#39;t poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lute&#39;s last question is a good one. Anyone who has looked into biological evolution knows that it is not linear and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/3846658384954654798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/3846658384954654798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210956420000#c3846658384954654798' 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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3779318988893434024</id><published>2008-05-16T12:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T12:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Maybe we&#39;re counting wrong. Who knows. I mean mayb...</title><summary type='text'>Maybe we&#39;re counting wrong. Who knows. I mean maybe women have been writing just as long as men. And therefore, women have made up half of all writers since the beginning of the wor(l)d. Or maybe Mr. Ron don&#39;t think so? Is there evidence that women did not learn to read and write at the same rate as men? Is the evidence in the number of words printed by men vs. women? But this isn&#39;t proof of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/3779318988893434024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/3779318988893434024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210955940000#c3779318988893434024' title=''/><author><name>How!</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04183403721817331574</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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1727230883"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1296636429361248008</id><published>2008-05-16T10:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T10:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Could you elaborate on &quot;specific moves&quot; perhaps pr...</title><summary type='text'>Could you elaborate on &quot;specific moves&quot; perhaps provide us with an example or two?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;why is &quot;conceptual poetry&quot; not a contradiction in terms? What then is the specific function of words as they are related to poetry in this avant-guarde world?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is the evolution of poetry linear,&lt;BR/&gt;and finally is it progressive?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/1296636429361248008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/1296636429361248008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210946400000#c1296636429361248008' title=''/><author><name>Lute</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09581428138651759605</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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-587115507"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7646176928958515827</id><published>2008-05-16T09:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T09:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m interested in what you mean by &quot;non-expression...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m interested in what you mean by &quot;non-expression&quot;.  In my thinking, any act is an act of expression.  Even the act of reading, for example, is an act of expression (choice of material, &quot;method&quot; for reading, etc.).  However, because of this &quot;expression&quot; is always received as another act of expression.  So therefore, on one hand, all poetry is expressive, and in another sense (due to its </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/7646176928958515827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/7646176928958515827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210945980000#c7646176928958515827' title=''/><author><name>Iain</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15197666388360786350</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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1107385782"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4142119334922456390</id><published>2008-05-16T08:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T08:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is &#39;an avant-garde – which they believe still exis...</title><summary type='text'>Is &#39;an avant-garde – which they believe still exists&#39; a nod towards those who argue that the avant-garde was a particular movement stemming from a historical moment and a poor term to use for all art that is experimental in form or content?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/4142119334922456390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8042445563001681119/comments/default/4142119334922456390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html?showComment=1210942380000#c4142119334922456390' 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='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/2008/05/laynie-browne-is-conducting-survey.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8042445563001681119' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8042445563001681119' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2008"/></entry></feed>