<?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.post8578923894544994481..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/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.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>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5771510957050910762</id><published>2007-09-19T01:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-19T01:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I want you to cite a specific example of Harold Bl...</title><summary type='text'>I want you to cite a specific example of Harold Bloom&#39;s alleged conservatism. He claims Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, and Nathaniel West as among his favorite novelists. He did more than anyone else to publicize Ammons&#39; career, and, as an atheist who renounced Judaism, I don&#39;t think it&#39;s for Christian sentimentality that he proclaims his love of reading Dickens. I also don&#39;t know of any other &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5771510957050910762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5771510957050910762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1190178660000#c5771510957050910762' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00064045735802551519</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-463222565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4212299072768644873</id><published>2007-03-14T13:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T13:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve been saying for years, though, that Ashbery h...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve been saying for years, though, that Ashbery has been repeating himself. Go figure. His first two books had some good poems in them. Lately, though, it&#39;s all the same shiny surfaces.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for personal needs on the part of the poet, it&#39;s important to make a distinction between the inner need that all artists feel about making their art—the need as strong as breathing, which means I&#39;d be</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/4212299072768644873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/4212299072768644873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173893220000#c4212299072768644873' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5591602568566204611</id><published>2007-03-14T12:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-14T12:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I can live with it, as long as Ron stops using the...</title><summary type='text'>I can live with it, as long as Ron stops using the ungrammatical phrase &quot;in regards to&quot;--which is the chalk scraping on the blackboard to my ears.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5591602568566204611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5591602568566204611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173889620000#c5591602568566204611' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5724888154151207074</id><published>2007-03-13T21:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T21:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My mom hates the phrase &quot;where are you at&quot; because...</title><summary type='text'>My mom hates the phrase &quot;where are you at&quot; because it is redundant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5724888154151207074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5724888154151207074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173836400000#c5724888154151207074' 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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3860216547159651068</id><published>2007-03-13T21:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T21:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Putting prepositions at the end of sentences is t...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Putting prepositions at the end of sentences is the sort of thing up with which I will not put&quot;.  Winston Churchill is supposed to have said something like that. Hopefully (sic) I&#39;ve got that quote somewhat right (though I read sometime in the 90&#39;s of some grammarians who legislated that using &quot;hopefully&quot; in that manner was now legit).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3860216547159651068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3860216547159651068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173834000000#c3860216547159651068' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6057491312573732331</id><published>2007-03-13T20:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T20:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I believe ending a sentence with a preposition is ...</title><summary type='text'>I believe ending a sentence with a preposition is legal in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam.  Especially Guam.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, there are rumors going around that Kentucky legislators are drafting a ballot measure on this issue for the next election.  Ask the question, &quot;Where are you at?&quot; and you could face 2-5 years, plus a $5,000 fine.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/6057491312573732331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/6057491312573732331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173832380000#c6057491312573732331' 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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1690567319023544244</id><published>2007-03-13T17:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T17:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Creeley&#39;s best work was between the end of For Lov...</title><summary type='text'>Creeley&#39;s best work was between the end of For Love and the middle of Pieces.  A Daybook was slack.  Then there were those dozen or so New Directions collections, each of which contained a number of nostalgic little miniatures larded with poems of fairly quotidian quality.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The issue isn&#39;t that weaker work &quot;weakens&quot; the best work a writer may have done, or will do.  But it does raise </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/1690567319023544244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/1690567319023544244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173822120000#c1690567319023544244' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3701206464252849495</id><published>2007-03-13T16:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T16:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I disagree with Curtis&#39; claim that what a writer o...</title><summary type='text'>I disagree with Curtis&#39; claim that what a writer or artist &quot;personally needs&quot; doesn&#39;t matter, if by that term he refers to creative inner imperatives as opposed to needs based on the &quot;marketplace.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Creative work based on inner  &quot;needs&quot; might be all that really matters from writers and artists (and musicians, etc.)it needs to be done.  Whether we enjoy what is thus made is a separate </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3701206464252849495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3701206464252849495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173816420000#c3701206464252849495' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-900469589271991361</id><published>2007-03-13T14:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T14:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,The awkwardness comes from the intentionally a...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The awkwardness comes from the intentionally amateurish rhyming; also from the lines ending on unstressed syllables.  The grammar ain&#39;t bad and it ain&#39;t awkward neither.  The lines&#39; parallelism is hokey -- awkward, amateurish -- intentionally. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think your point is right -- the hokeyness emphasizes the skiff&#39;s patheticness -- but you misdiagnose the cause.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/900469589271991361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/900469589271991361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173809280000#c900469589271991361' 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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4532729286974201847</id><published>2007-03-13T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>1) You&#39;re supposed to heard the awkwardness at the...</title><summary type='text'>1) You&#39;re supposed to heard the awkwardness at the end of the second line,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2) Curtis, I never saw or got it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/4532729286974201847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/4532729286974201847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173807120000#c4532729286974201847' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3228816108504807592</id><published>2007-03-13T12:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T12:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I guess you&#39;re joking about never ending a sentenc...</title><summary type='text'>I guess you&#39;re joking about never ending a sentence in a preposition?? That&#39;s the urban legend of style manuals. Every single one you could ever consult will tell you that that is a canard, popularized by unnecessarily Latinizing high-school marms. Nor is it a rule up with which any writer need put.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3228816108504807592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3228816108504807592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173804660000#c3228816108504807592' title=''/><author><name>xxx xxxxxx</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16906246427435976604</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-220580364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3528312774690837718</id><published>2007-03-13T12:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T12:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron--what happened to my earlier, longer, post?</title><summary type='text'>Ron--what happened to my earlier, longer, post?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3528312774690837718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3528312774690837718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173803100000#c3528312774690837718' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8682625656535388215</id><published>2007-03-13T11:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T11:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Another interesting thing about Ashbery is his rep...</title><summary type='text'>Another interesting thing about Ashbery is his repudiation of his earlier formal experimentation.  I.e., &quot;I don&#39;t know what I was thinking&quot; (when [I] wrote Tennis Court Oath].  This not-very-graceful sidestep around his own supposed &quot;aberration&quot; is very telling.  It very much appears as if he in fact did seek to be accepted into the warm comfort of explicitly Official Verse Culture, as his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/8682625656535388215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/8682625656535388215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173800100000#c8682625656535388215' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2976999808035966767</id><published>2007-03-13T11:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T11:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Never conclude a sentence with a preposition.</title><summary type='text'>Never conclude a sentence with a preposition.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/2976999808035966767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/2976999808035966767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173799680000#c2976999808035966767' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2260615278353111225</id><published>2007-03-13T10:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T10:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The attempt to defend Ashbery&#39;s long decline from ...</title><summary type='text'>The attempt to defend Ashbery&#39;s long decline from Self-Portrait on the grounds that his books (and poems) have been conscious burlesques or parodies of the straight world won&#39;t fly, because his work is too separate and complex and different (than anyone else&#39;s could be) to be a model for its own amusement.  He settled into a meditative mode after Self-Portrait, one which didn&#39;t require </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/2260615278353111225'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/2260615278353111225'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173797940000#c2260615278353111225' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5912958749070728001</id><published>2007-03-13T08:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T08:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,What bad grammar in the last four lines?  I do...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What bad grammar in the last four lines?  I don&#39;t see any.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I used to hate Ashbery&#39;s reliance on the antecedentless &quot;it&quot; (you highlight an instance of it in the Santa poem, Ron); now I think of Georg Groddeck (and Clara Bow) and smile.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5912958749070728001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/5912958749070728001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173788580000#c5912958749070728001' 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/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3128143001502296413</id><published>2007-03-13T08:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T08:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is indeed remarkable how Ashbery manages, decad...</title><summary type='text'>It is indeed remarkable how Ashbery manages, decade after decade, to maintain his footing on the thin titanium wire separating 2 cultural cosmosi.  As someone born and bred in Quiet Universe, I bring to the sample poems you quote a particular set of preconceptions and cultural apercues.  For me, you see Tweety Bird does NOT represent Tweedy Bush.  There is no Bush in the Bird, in other words.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3128143001502296413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8578923894544994481/comments/default/3128143001502296413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html?showComment=1173788520000#c3128143001502296413' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</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/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/03/its-worth-noting-that-continual.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578923894544994481' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8578923894544994481' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 13, 2007"/></entry></feed>