"This world brings in the summer syntax of the real.

Each flight divining his birds, one augury at an art.

The envelope of sound."

These lines are from the poem by Sir Ron Silliman that a certain neo-formalist blogger sees fit to mock. ("I am Marion Delgado"). To me it is self-evident that the author of these lines has a very fine ear indeed. Just as it is self-evident that Timothy Steele has a very poor ear for both rhythm and language itself.. To me it's De Kooning vs. shopping-mall art. It's a wholly different category. I'm not going to offer any arguments right now, no explanation of the subtle use of sound and rhythm. If you can't hear it, it's your loss.