Ron Silliman's post re the Paul Butterfield Band is an odd concatenation of facts. I mean like a Wikipedia entry, that expression of the Take Your Chances School of Scholarship, somewhat obsessed yet not exactly attached. wobbly, let us say. and with errors: Elvin Bishop played guitar, not bass, had to 2nd fiddle for totally flash Mike Bloomfield. I mean, the passion seems to be in his facts, not the music. in which case, no errors allowed. a lot of times, he writes about the facts of poetry, those facts being his reception of what he has read. he doesn't express it balls to the wall, but as deeper foray into the sytematic. which makes no sense to me. he pushes his binary exploitations into fussy corners, swept clean of insolence. of course Ron has cred in the Parnassian realm, which is why his control sequences seem so awry.