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Ron Silliman

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Poet in Springfield, PA. Lecturer @ U of Pennsylvania, Author of 50+ books My blog had 5 million visits before it was unilaterally deleted by Gurgle (a copy can be found at the Electronic Poetry Center) rsillima@yahoo.com

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My cousin, Bob Cox, was one of the 25 fatalities in the 1991 Oakland firestorm. My heart goes out to everyone in LA.

09.01.2025 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Had Colin & Katie over for dinner last night
Today I keep thinking it's the day AFTER Christmas
because in one way, it is

23.12.2024 20:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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20 books that changed my life

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#20
Space, Clark Coolidge

21.12.2024 20:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First real snow in a year
Too warm to stick
but we'll see about when the sun goes down

20.12.2024 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Except that with TV if you fall asleep, you are spared the ending, which is dreadful 99% of the time.

20.12.2024 15:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Self-Portrait was a particularly vicious parody of conservative poetries, which is why it won all the awards. I don't think of Ashbery as Obscurantist, although you pin that on Jorie easily enough.

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#19
John Ashbery, Three Poems
(I told John this once, he replied
"I thought it sank without a trace")

20.12.2024 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#18
Jack Spicer, Book of Magazine Verse
(First heard Robin Blaser read this on Jack's birthday
@ the Rambam in Berkeley, 1966)

18.12.2024 21:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#booksky

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#17
Charles Olson, Maximus Poems
(The Secret? O
was on the spectrum)

17.12.2024 14:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#16
David Bromige, My Poetry

16.12.2024 16:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#15
Robert Creeley, Pieces
underappreciated masterpiece

15.12.2024 16:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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William Carlos Williams, Spring & All
(the one poet who is here twice)

14.12.2024 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#13
Claudia Rankine, Citizen
still the best book of the 21st century

13.12.2024 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#12
Charles Bernstein, Controlling Interests

12.12.2024 15:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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#11
Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan

11.12.2024 20:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#10
Lyn Hejinian, My Life

10.12.2024 15:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

40 years ago today
I took my last drink

10.12.2024 15:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#9
Robert Kelly, Finding the Measure

09.12.2024 14:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?

I must be among the disappeared

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

08.12.2024 14:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#8
Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak

08.12.2024 14:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#7
Philip Whalen, On Bear's Head

"Never trust a poet who keeps Phil Whalen more than arm's length from their pillow." Clifford Burke circa 1965

07.12.2024 16:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#6
Rae Armantrout, Extremities

06.12.2024 14:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Has anyone written on the chapter "Inside" at the end of Robert Gluck's About ED? It's a brilliant performance.

Wrong Gluck got the Nobel.

05.12.2024 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RIP Jacques Roubaud

05.12.2024 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#5
Louis Zukofsky, "A" 22-23

05.12.2024 15:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#4
Robert Grenier, Sentences

04.12.2024 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On campus or at 1515 Market?

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You did

03.12.2024 17:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Barrett Watten, Opera -- Works
#3 of 20

03.12.2024 15:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0