<?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.post8263035760921886575..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/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.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>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2124896002348279115</id><published>2007-07-26T20:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-26T20:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My point is that no one &quot;knows&quot; his/her own histor...</title><summary type='text'>My point is that no one &quot;knows&quot; his/her own history.  Also, we can&#39;t be objective about ourselves.  Also, we put on protective coloration (lies, spin, private myths) in order to conceal what embarrasses us about ourselves.  Most people are irrational and immoral--they do things for mostly selfish reasons, and then try to convince themselves, and others, that it was necessary and inevitable.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/2124896002348279115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/2124896002348279115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185496740000#c2124896002348279115' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4741758524001697629</id><published>2007-07-25T21:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T21:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Whether or not Barrett Watten got carried away I f...</title><summary type='text'>Whether or not Barrett Watten got carried away I find this most informative, concerning his own work and his current views of literature.  Ron took this on and got to go second, an advantage he couldn’t squander, especially in the Theory category.  Everyone named on these lists has their own lineage and these roots grow endlessly into the past - this pattern the best with which to see literary </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/4741758524001697629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/4741758524001697629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185411900000#c4741758524001697629' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6814230612037802872</id><published>2007-07-25T19:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T19:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, what I actually wrote was, &quot;Why isn&#39;t Baco...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, what I actually wrote was, &quot;Why isn&#39;t Bacon or Newton more important to Watten or Silliman? Or Hume or Locke?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Important *to*, not important *than*.  I actually think our current political situation calls for the empirically minded, clear-sighted vision of a Newton or Bacon rather than a Marx or Lefebvre.  So yes, certainly, today&#39;s poets should find influence in what is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6814230612037802872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6814230612037802872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185406620000#c6814230612037802872' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2996855062606322476</id><published>2007-07-24T19:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T19:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Luther, obviously Newton and Bacon are more import...</title><summary type='text'>Luther, obviously Newton and Bacon are more important to our culture than Watten and Silliman, but that wasn&#39;t really the question, was it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The question was who was important to these poets in their formative years?  Obviously the Bible is of towering significance to all of Western Culture, but I avoided reading it in my youth, so it had virtually no influence on me, except as to the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/2996855062606322476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/2996855062606322476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185319680000#c2996855062606322476' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3020674234557441894</id><published>2007-07-24T18:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T18:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/3020674234557441894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/3020674234557441894'/><author><name>Boyd Nielson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04644539253495151757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-797457565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8659383859251796800</id><published>2007-07-24T17:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T17:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Depressing&quot; in the sense that it confirms my susp...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Depressing&quot; in the sense that it confirms my suspicion that avant poetics is really a form of neo-romantic irrationalism.  Why isn&#39;t Bacon or Newton more important to Watten or Silliman?  Or Hume or Locke?  The empirical tradition that informs contemporary philosophy of science could very well inform contemporary poetry, but instead we get thinkers more in the Hegel-Heidegger tradition: </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/8659383859251796800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/8659383859251796800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185311340000#c8659383859251796800' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-202173089413945687</id><published>2007-07-24T01:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T01:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Luther:  Why &quot;depressing&quot;?  Is currency a shortcom...</title><summary type='text'>Luther:  Why &quot;depressing&quot;?  Is currency a shortcoming?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wouldn&#39;t it make sense that the most forward-thinking theorists and experimenters of the age find their inspiration closer to them in time, than in earlier ages?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pound thought of history as a museum to ransack.  Confucius was as present to him as Basil Bunting, and both were on to something essentially pertinent.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/202173089413945687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/202173089413945687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185255240000#c202173089413945687' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5991833260062809350</id><published>2007-07-23T23:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T23:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>King Ludwig of Bavaria you mean?</title><summary type='text'>King Ludwig of Bavaria you mean?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/5991833260062809350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/5991833260062809350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185247080000#c5991833260062809350' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6384769178146440353</id><published>2007-07-23T21:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T21:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Okay.  I think we should label such stuff fiction,...</title><summary type='text'>Okay.  I think we should label such stuff fiction, much as nearly everything by Capote is fiction, loosely hung on the scaffolding of &quot;reality.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The poets in Grand Piano won&#39;t tell you what they were really feeling during their formative years, or who they were associating with, or what really moved them.  The circle of &quot;privacy&quot; is always smaller than the circumference of honesty.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6384769178146440353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6384769178146440353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185240300000#c6384769178146440353' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246974728841367956</id><published>2007-07-23T20:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T20:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like Peter Davis&#39; book but think it should remai...</title><summary type='text'>I like Peter Davis&#39; book but think it should remain within a strict and tight form: ten books per poet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s like a haiku. You have to cut down to the absolutely essential information.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You shouldn&#39;t be allowed to turn a haiku into the card catalogue for a whole library.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hope Peter cracks the whip on this.  Already Bernstein cheated in volume one, and now it&#39;s Watten.&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/4246974728841367956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/4246974728841367956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185235860000#c4246974728841367956' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1309488503093064064</id><published>2007-07-23T19:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T19:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s rather depressing that Silliman and Watten ca...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s rather depressing that Silliman and Watten cannot think of a single book written before 1900 that is &quot;essential&quot; to them, with the exception of some old chestnuts of Marx.  It&#39;s also rather depressing that they need to choose both Marx and Lefevbre, who is nothing more than a footnote to Marx.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/1309488503093064064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/1309488503093064064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185234840000#c1309488503093064064' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6802937266297113735</id><published>2007-07-23T19:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T19:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And let&#39;s add Laura Mulvey, Martha Rosler, Yvonne ...</title><summary type='text'>And let&#39;s add Laura Mulvey, Martha Rosler, Yvonne Rainer: all of whom apparently, along  with Trinh T. Minh-ha, refer to themselves as &quot;Abigail Child&quot;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;These are just off the top of my head and I am by no means a film person.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6802937266297113735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6802937266297113735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185233100000#c6802937266297113735' title=''/><author><name>Jasper Bernes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15593713553275884570</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-331242286"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1622734731315340948</id><published>2007-07-23T17:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T17:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A list of &quot;mosts&quot; founders on the inherent propert...</title><summary type='text'>A list of &quot;mosts&quot; founders on the inherent property of lists to level and expand. Top forty desert island lists! Self-loathing &amp; fake nostalgia in a statistical dead-heat. Sooner or later, every Biographia Literaria turns out to be plagiarism. What else could it possibly be?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/1622734731315340948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/1622734731315340948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185226080000#c1622734731315340948' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2156694155187781137</id><published>2007-07-23T15:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T15:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;It’s worth noting that all of the women filmmaker...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;It’s worth noting that &lt;I&gt;all&lt;/I&gt; of the women filmmakers who write and publish theory in English are named Abigail Child.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think this is the part where someone mentions, e.g., Trinh T. Minh-ha? (noting, lest the pedants come out, that Trinh&#39;s latter critical-theoretical works on film, colonialism, feminism are indeed written and published in English). Really: let&#39;s keep our heads </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/2156694155187781137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/2156694155187781137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185219240000#c2156694155187781137' title=''/><author><name>jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14746332414326413360</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506687388"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6944421373514208775</id><published>2007-07-23T14:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T14:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Everybody puts a spin on everything, especially re...</title><summary type='text'>Everybody puts a spin on everything, especially regarding themselves.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;With the &quot;most important books to me&quot; lists as opposed to the &quot;best books ever&quot; lists, the mythologizing is more personal and less an attempt at panopticanicity.  I personally prefer that personal approach.  As long as we bear in mind that all such lists mythologize.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mother Goose and Dr. Seuss would have to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6944421373514208775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6944421373514208775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185216900000#c6944421373514208775' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5870518609091410330</id><published>2007-07-23T14:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T14:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>just to clarify, many contributors list books othe...</title><summary type='text'>just to clarify, many contributors list books other than as ron says &quot;regular&quot; books of poetry. The book doesn&#39;t ask for just poetry books, but any book of importance.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and yes, a second volume is on the way, with many other cool poets participating, like Tom Clark, Edward Field, Maxine Chernoff, David Shapiro, Alicia Ostriker, R Bly, Catherine Daly, Anselm Hollo, Janet Holmes, Linh Dinh,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/5870518609091410330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/5870518609091410330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185216600000#c5870518609091410330' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05327429647175738328</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2035658647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4855296469758215259</id><published>2007-07-23T10:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T10:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The footnote to my post above is that personal psy...</title><summary type='text'>The footnote to my post above is that personal psychology can color nearly everything we think to tell the world about our lives.  Self-loathing, egotism, deliberate selective memory--these are poor touchstones out of which to relate autobiography, but they&#39;re usually more powerful influences than a desire to be truthful.  Our lives DON&#39;T make sense, and we shouldn&#39;t think that by rearranging </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/4855296469758215259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/4855296469758215259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185200400000#c4855296469758215259' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6721646282571087956</id><published>2007-07-23T10:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-23T10:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Those lists begin to seem like things you wish had...</title><summary type='text'>Those lists begin to seem like things you wish had influenced you, instead of what actually did.  Maybe it&#39;s fun to imagine the life you wish you had led, instead of the one you did.  Most of the works that inspired us as young writers weren&#39;t the those that sound best on a rez-zoom-may today.  (Perhaps I&#39;m being a bad witness:  &quot;The witness can&#39;t testify to what the accused was thinking!&quot;)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6721646282571087956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8263035760921886575/comments/default/6721646282571087956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html?showComment=1185199200000#c6721646282571087956' 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/2007/07/peter-davis-must-be-in-process-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8263035760921886575' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8263035760921886575' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 23, 2007"/></entry></feed>