Comment streams on blogs are often where the action is, but sometimes it’s where the posturing is, where authoritative-sounding voices make cryptic and/or designedly outrageous statements, without fear of being asked to … well, support their views. Case in point: a commentator named Iain Keenan wrote this in reply to Silliman’s post today: “Robert Bly did a lot more damage to the European and Latin poets he advocated than the ones he criticized.” This in the context of some sort of defense of Surrealism. In the hope of figuring out exactly what Mr.Read More