<?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.post978115135741081353..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/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5578161970902614025</id><published>2010-06-26T07:45:26.246-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T07:45:26.246-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis Faville said...&#xa;&amp;quot;Nothing wrong with th...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis Faville said...&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Nothing wrong with this kind of wit--David Gitin&amp;#39;s a master of it, though he shows the better way of using it, as gentle/delicate suggestion, rather than bad jokes and cracked similes.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I agree, Curtis, that David Gitin is a master of the modern lyric, of clarity and &amp;quot;gentle/delicate suggestion&amp;quot;. I think he might say the difference </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/5578161970902614025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/5578161970902614025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277552726246#c5578161970902614025' title=''/><author><name>Frank Parker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09486916593945680342</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/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-741458029"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6478371825675530035</id><published>2010-06-25T05:29:50.573-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T05:29:50.573-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yesterday&amp;#39;s Dugs&#xa;&#xa;The King of Atlantis&#xa;Vincent...</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday&amp;#39;s Dugs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The King of Atlantis&lt;br /&gt;Vincent Price&lt;br /&gt;sullenly eats inside&lt;br /&gt;a paddle foot donkey:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m tired of old pirates&lt;br /&gt;and mermen.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m tired of stealing my &lt;br /&gt;measly chickens from the canyons &lt;br /&gt;of cabinetry whose &lt;br /&gt;innards are the mangled &lt;br /&gt;wrangled extensions &lt;br /&gt;of lines.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...]</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/6478371825675530035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/6478371825675530035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277458190573#c6478371825675530035' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5940339548597607359</id><published>2010-06-24T13:48:42.314-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T13:48:42.314-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If this were fiction, it would not be the perfectl...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;i&gt;If this were fiction, it would not be the perfectly woven rug of a Nabokov or Fitzgerald so much as a Philip K. Dick romp, spurting new ideas, new beginnings every few paragraphs until the reader is lost in possibilities. Yet – more like Nabokov than Dick – McCreary clearly loves control. Nothing here has been casually spun out.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it&amp;#39;s not. So not sure the comparison means</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/5940339548597607359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/5940339548597607359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277401722314#c5940339548597607359' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/TAg2dElCYBI/AAAAAAAABFE/48XPGoeZiVY/S220/ist2_6844208-jack-of-diamonds-two-playing-card.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2111872655060576323</id><published>2010-06-24T12:35:28.065-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T12:35:28.065-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&amp;#39;t think these showed much of a sense of...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&amp;#39;t think these showed much of a sense of risk.  I think Billy Collins risks much more, and usually gets home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom Clark risks more, even with his straight-line bunts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought you said that risk is one of your primary criterions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could you explain the risks that these poems take?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I felt, like Curtis, that these are pop manifestations that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/2111872655060576323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/2111872655060576323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277397328065#c2111872655060576323' 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/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8793406767482939048</id><published>2010-06-23T22:33:43.437-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T22:33:43.437-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Phaney:&#xa;&#xa;&#xa;Rhyme and punning are but the oddest acc...</title><summary type='text'>Phaney:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rhyme and punning are but the oddest accidents of fate.  That one phoneme should mimic another is the merest of coincidences.  Let it go....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/8793406767482939048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/8793406767482939048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277346823437#c8793406767482939048' 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/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4095283586538435129</id><published>2010-06-23T16:51:47.045-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T16:51:47.045-04:00</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/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/4095283586538435129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/4095283586538435129'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7067948562674358475</id><published>2010-06-23T14:45:28.752-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T14:45:28.752-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I question the antecedency (yup, it&amp;#39;s really a...</title><summary type='text'>I question the antecedency (yup, it&amp;#39;s really a word) of Oppen here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking about &amp;quot;sincerity and objectification&amp;quot; in light of the pop goofiness of &amp;quot;lyre/wire&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;notion/ocean&amp;quot; makes me think of conning, not honest effort.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing wrong with this kind of wit--David Gitin&amp;#39;s a master of it, though he shows the better way of using it, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/7067948562674358475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/7067948562674358475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277318728752#c7067948562674358475' 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/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6434543577740092880</id><published>2010-06-23T11:34:52.079-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T11:34:52.079-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WHAT A GREAT REVIEW!&#xa;WHAT A GREAT BOOK!</title><summary type='text'>WHAT A GREAT REVIEW!&lt;br /&gt;WHAT A GREAT BOOK!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/6434543577740092880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/6434543577740092880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277307292079#c6434543577740092880' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vy9H2bBCxYk/SMaL6fmKV4I/AAAAAAAAAZE/n1EfTHmp830/S220/BIG+E.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-152321064147212685</id><published>2010-06-23T10:15:24.419-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T10:15:24.419-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ron, &#xa;&#xa;Thanks for writing about a poem.  A coup...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt; Hi Ron, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for writing about a poem.  A couple things on your discussion of the final &amp;quot;&amp;amp;&amp;quot; in McCreary&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Disinvited.&amp;quot;  First, I don&amp;#39;t think it right to say the poem &amp;quot;clos[es] on it. The &amp;quot;&amp;amp;&amp;quot; is a line up and four words from when the poem ends.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while you see or hear a big splash with or in the &amp;quot;&amp;amp;&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/152321064147212685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/152321064147212685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html?showComment=1277302524419#c152321064147212685' 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/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6673508611378542235</id><published>2010-06-23T09:07:45.329-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T09:07:45.329-04:00</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/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/6673508611378542235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/978115135741081353/comments/default/6673508611378542235'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/yesterdays-songs-homer-sings-gods-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-978115135741081353' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/978115135741081353' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 23, 2010"/></entry></feed>