Ron Silliman turned sixty today. Not long after I came to San Francisco “to stay,” Steve Gaskin and his disciples folded up the Monday night class and took off like locusts eating their way through communities across the country before arriving in Tennessee to put down roots at the Farm. or maybe they left before I got there.

I have the same relationship with Ron Silliman

20. Perhaps poetry is an activity and not a form at all. Would this definition satisfy
Duncan?
21. Poem in a notebook, manuscript, magazine, book, reprinted in an anthology.
Scripts and contexts differ. How could it be the same poem?
22. The page intended to score speech. What an elaborate fiction that seems!
– from The Chinese Notebook

Happy birthday, youngster.

(and thanks to Madame Levy for the hippage)