Ron Silliman
Comments & Themes
Topics for research and critical analysis:
- Analyze Ron Silliman's poetry exploring his sources: Gertrude Stein, Russian Formalism, projectivist poets, and Louis Zukofsky.
- Articulate Silliman's leftist crirtique. Focus on his multifaceted political analysis.
- Read one of Silliman's attached poems with an eye to everyday scenes.
- Analyze the structure of these poems with respect to grammar, syntax, time sequences, and his simplest materials.
- Find intrincate forms, puns, sounds, statements, which unfold references to Silliman's philosophical concerns.
- Determine Silliman's reflections and questionings on language.
- Give some constitutive factors in Silliman's poems and how they deal with innovative constructs.