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rodney1946's review
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
One of the things I like about Ron Silliman's poetry is that it does reflect a life lived daily. Of all the Language poets he is the most down to earth, the most non theoretical, the most "daily." Not the most inside, but the most outside.
Silliman's poems work against official verse culture by the way they present daily life and thought, directly and without any terribly formal structure (except some Jackson MacLow/John Cage chance operational structures here and there). They are not romantic, nor lyrical in the way of much "official verse culture." But, reflecting "a natural rhythm of live, lived daily." that they do. Better than anyone now writing. And in interesting language. But, maybe I am reading a different Ron Silliman than some other people. You know, like the New York Times you read in your head, that was never really published ("Oh, I'm sure I saw that in the Times." )
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