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SILLIMAN

                                             October 19, 2010
                                             August  22, 2013

Looking through some of Delany's
"Longer Views" (a non-fiction                         DELANY
work of decades ago), I decided
on impulse to try to follow up on
one of the authors he was talking
about:

     Ron Silliman

  The local library system has a
  number of his works, frequently on
  hold... but nevertheless I end up
  with a copy of "Under Albany" in my     PROBLEM_OF_THE_LINE
  hands, and I note with amusement but
  no suprise that Siliman is a man            LIFETIME_LEFT
  much like Delany.

  This book is a work of autobiography, expanding
  on each line of the poem Albany, and the voice
  seems very much like Delany's voice, and the
  kinds of things he talks about -- communal life
  in the 60s, San Francisco edition -- is much
  like the kinds of things Delany talks about.

    This is not a complaint: Delany is
    an an interesting fellow, who has
    put a lot of work into being what he        And I suppose you could say
    is, and there's no reason he                I'm also always looking for
    shouldn't appreciate someone else           someone like myself-- or maybe
    who is much like he is in many ways.        someone who's even better at
                                                being like me than I am.






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