Also author of Beyond Prisons, a screenplay for KQED-Television, 1973. Early on, Silliman published poems with such mainstream journals as Poetry Northwest and TriQuarterly, but his association with Language poetry has defined much of his subsequent work. Ron Silliman reads from the Alphabet to a large audience at Birkbeck. In 1995 Silliman moved to Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he resides with his wife Krishna and two sons, Colin and Jesse. On the video Dr Carol Watts introduces Ron Silliman. Perelman described the work as “written in a series of expanding paragraphs where the sentences of one paragraph are repeated in order in subsequent paragraphs with additional sentences inserted between them, recontextualizing them. In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, but left without attaining a degree. Ron Silliman has been crucial to the changing scope of contemporary American poetry for more than forty years. RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Ron Silliman was born on August 5, 1946 in Pasco, Washington, and raised in Albany, California, north of Berkeley. Ketjak is the opposite of casual or causal collage; it does not push toward a whole so much as it reveals the habitual urge toward assembling what Silliman, in his interview in The Difficulties special issue and elsewhere, has called ‘the tyranny of the whole.’”, Tjanting (1981), the second part of Ketjak, is written according to the principles of the Fibonacci number sequence. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. Marshall in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, “the book employs a disjunctive version of modernist juxtaposition, one that is put up beside or against the familiar procedures of prosaic logic. Download Free The Alphabet Ron Silliman The Alphabet Ron Silliman When somebody should go to the ebook stores, search establishment by shop, shelf by shelf, it is in point of fact problematic. The Language Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman When the project was completed, it consisted of 10 volumes in all. Biography Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the West Coast literary movement known as Language Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. He has now begun writing a new poem, Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator. Ron Silliman’s latest book is an expanded edition of, The Value of a Pronoun: A Discussion of Ron Silliman's. I wrote it") and even scornful ("22. Ron Silliman. In this 2009 publication celebration of the Alphabet, Ron Silliman reads 48 minutes of selections from across the book. He began to give talks and contribute essays on a regular basis thereafter. The other nine writers included were Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson. Poems from Ron Silliman, Averill Curdy, Paul Hoover, and Allen Edwin Butt. In probing the question of reference, Silliman adopts the calmly detached voice of Wittgenstein's project. He was educated at Merritt College, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Berkeley. The language letters : selected 1970s correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman ( ) The grand piano : an experiment in collective autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980 ( Book ) In 1986, Silliman's anthology, In the American Tree, a collection of American language poetry, was published by the National Poetry Foundation. Silliman's Blog A weblog focused on contemporary poetry and poetics. Today, these same figures have been long recognized. Moon in the 7th House, Gunrunner Press, 1968. It’s a great book, an epoch-making one in many ways. He was educated at Merritt College, San Francisco State University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He attended San Francisco State University, Merritt College, and the University of California at Berkeley between 1965 and 1970 but left in his senior year during the Vietnam War to perform alternate service as a conscientious objector to the draft. Firemen on ladders into the smoking night. "Reading Ketjak," The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary Compendium on Language & Performance, edited by Steven Vincent and Ellen Zweig (published simultaneously as a Momo's Press book and as Shocks 7, 8, 9, San Francisco, CA, 1981), pp. Ron Silliman Salt Publishing, 2004, ($14.99) ... to define Language Poetry are useful in varying degrees and can be regarded as a springboard for thinking about Silliman’s new book and Language Poetry in general. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. He edited In the American Tree (1986), which remains the primary Language poetry anthology, as well as penned one of the movement’s defining critical texts, The New Sentence (1987). Silliman makes the important point that the phenomenon is based on a created audience and that language … Bob Holman. Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. Posted by Ron at Tuesday, February 03, 2015. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. Pohl in the Buffalo News commented that the volume ® (“Circle R”), published in 2000, presented “a remarkably focused and attentive sensibility fully alive and engaged by the ordinariness of its own experience, without striving after higher orders of meaning and consequence.” In his discussion of another section of the work, first published as LIT (1987), Lazer explained that “in spite of its careful constructions, LIT feels neither rigid nor constrained. Yellow triangle: abstract banana. In an article for the Nation, essayist Hank Lazer described language poetry as “following upon the most adventurous work of Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, William Carlos Williams and Jack Spicer,” adding that “language writing can be seen as an oppositional literary practice that questions many of the assumptions of mainstream poetry. An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the West Coast literary movement known as Language Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. As the paragraphs double, the space between the reoccurrence of the sentences doubles and the context from which they reemerge grows thicker. Silliman thought that such early acceptance was less a recognition of his skills than a lack of standards or rigor characteristic of that literary tendency; he began looking for alternatives. Papers of Ron Silliman, American writer and editor. Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet, often associated with language poetry. Silliman’s prolific publishing career includes over forty books of poetry, critical work, collaborations and anthologies. Silliman's mature critical writing dates to the early/mid-1970s. Silliman’s writing is fun to read: Its pleasure lies in the gradual unfolding of intricate forms and in the mix of puns, declarations, sounds and sights from our daily environment, the range of references from philosophy to baseball.” Lazer continued, “As with the repetition and modulation of basic rhythm and melodies in the minimalist music of Philip Glass or Steve Reich, key words and sentences echo throughout LIT, providing a pleasing familiarity and recurrence.”. Silliman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life and is associated with the Language school of contemporary writers. Silliman once said of his own writing, “I have, from the beginning, taken poetry to be the most intense relation possible between self and language (hence meaning-mind-world), but, coming from a basically traditional background, it has taken years to drop the pretenses of prevailing modes and admit it: form is passion, passion form. Plus Clare Cavanagh talks about translating the notebooks of Anna Kamienska. Nearly three decades later, some of the poets who took part in this series were still collaborating on a work based on these readings. [6], He writes a weblog devoted to contemporary poetry and poetics.[7]. All of Silliman’s work unravels and reforms in this exemplary and exhilarating act of attention, recollection, and reflection.” Silliman is also a contributor to The Grand Piano, a collective autobiography involving original members of the Language movement that focuses on their memories and impressions of the years in the 1970s when they were most active. Silliman classifies his poetry as part of a lifework, which he calls Ketjak (the name refers to a form of Balinese dance drama based on an ancient text.) Ron Silliman, Manifest (La Laguna: Zasterle, 1990) 10. He edited In the American Tree (1986), which remains the primary Language poetry anthology, as well as penned one of the movement’s defining critical texts, The New Sentence (1987). Show all posts. ... Posted by Ron … An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the West Coast literary movement known as Language Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. When Charles Bernstein praises Ron Silliman’s poems, ... Wordsworth works to "bring [the poet’s] language near to the language of men," yes, but note that "near." Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet, often associated with language poetry. He attended San Francisco State University, Merritt College, and the University of California at Berkeley between 1965 and 1970 but left in his senior year during the Vietnam War to perform alternate service as a conscientious objector to the draft. He is often associated with language poetry.Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet.He has now begun writing a new poem, Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator. But as Siltanen shows here, this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can stimulate readers to join the poets in a delightful exploration of ordinary language. Language Matters. This is why we offer the book compilations in this website. Born in Pasco, Washington, Ron Silliman grew up in Albany, California, just north of Berkeley. Intense emotion in his motionless motion. A founder of the Language poetry movement, Silliman established the concept of “the new sentence,” which Penn’s own poet and scholar Bob Perelman calls “defiantly unpoetic.” “Its shifts break up attempts at the natural reading of universal, authentic statements.” He is memorialized in the Addison Anthology, a sidewalk portion in Berkeley, California containing plaques honoring poets and authors. Silliman's correspondence, notebooks, and manuscripts are part of the Archive for New Poetry, Mandeville Department of Special Collections, University of California at San Diego. A long-time resident of the Bay Area, he moved to Pennsylvania in 1995 and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. While in San Francisco, he served on numerous community boards, including the 1980 Census Oversight Committee, the Arson Task Force of the San Francisco Fire Department, and the State Department of Health's Task Force on Health Conditions in Locale Detention Facilities. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. Datasets available include LCSH, BIBFRAME, LC Name Authorities, LC Classification, MARC codes, PREMIS vocabularies, ISO language codes, and more. How has poetry changed in the past ten years? Although he has come to be associated with the Language poets for most of his career, Silliman came of age under the sign of Donald Allen's New American Poetry (1960). variously ‘language centered,’ ‘minimal,’ ‘nonreferential formalism,’ ‘diminished referentiality,’ ‘structuralist.’ Not a group but a tendency in the work of many.” [Ref AL p. 104] . In Postmodern American Poetry, Paul Hoover described the book as “an eccentric form of [Silliman’s] own invention … with the result that the number of sentences in each paragraph equals the number of sentences in the previous two paragraphs.” In the 1980s, Silliman began what is known as “The Alphabet” series, which was published in its entirety in 2008 as The Alphabet. Some of these alternatives were initiated through various editing projects that he took part in, which gave him the opportunity to work with a wide range of poets. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet. "4 And in his early essay "Stray Straws and Straw Men," Silliman is Bernstein's Exhibit A for a constructivist poetry, a poetry that undermines the "natural look," with its "personal subject matter & a flowing syntax. Ron Silliman’s long prose poem Ketjak (1978) is in part a swan song for 1960s radicalism, and the Fordist regime of capital accumulation undergirding that eras struggles for self-affirmation. Soon he edited a special issue of the magazine Margins, devoted to the work of the poet Clark Coolidge. Ron Silliman The range of poetry published that focused on " language " in This, Tottel's, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and also in several other key publications and essays of the time, established the field of discussion that would emerge as Language (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) poetry. Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. As a published poet, he has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at San Francisco State University, at the University of California at San Diego, at New College of California and, in shorter stints, at Naropa University and Brown University. One of the more influential projects was Silliman's newsletter called Tottels (1970–81),[2] that was one of the early venues for Language Poetry. Language poetry possibly began in 1971 with the NY magazine This, which in turn led, seven years later, to a magazine entitled L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.Its spiritual forefathers were Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein {1} and Louis Zukofsky, {2} and the movement drew on the anti-capitalist, sometimes Marxist, politics of the time, especially the writings of Lacan, Barthes and Foucault. 2, edited by Tom Beckett, Kent, OH, 1985. In this, they have reminded some in the language movement of characters in a novel. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. Although he has come to be associated with the Language poets for most of his career, Silliman came of age under the sign of Donald Allen's New American Poetry (1960). "Ketjak" is also the name of the first poem of The Age of Huts. He has also worked as a political organizer, ethnographer, lobbyist, and was the executive editor of the Socialist Review. 12782 Ron Silliman 1 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. An influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the West Coast literary movement known as Language Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. Reviewing the book for Tremblor 7, George Hartley described “what Silliman looks for in a poem, and why the new sentence fulfills his demands” as “1) intensity; 2) power; 3) a charged use of linguistic units; 4) recurrence; 5) parallel structures; 6) a common image bank; 7) secondary syllogistic movement; 8) the systematic blocking of primary syllogistic movement; 9) varied tenses; 10) ambiguity; 11) importance; 12) tension; 13) an exploration and articulation of the hidden capacities of the blank space (parataxis).”  Bob Perelman described it as a “term that is both descriptive of a writing procedure and, at times, a sign of literary-political proselytizing.”, In 1974 Silliman began working on a long poem or life-work he calls Ketjak, after the Balinese word for “monkey” and a ritual performance done by the islanders for tourists. Contributor to numerous anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry, Norton (New York, NY), 1994; Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Volume 2, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1998; and Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Oxford University Press, (Oxford, England), 2000. Ron Silliman was selected as one of the Kelly Writers House's 2012 Fellows. It underscores the separation as much as the relationship between the poet’s language on the one hand and the common on the other. He is … Editor of Tottell's, 1970-81, and newsletter of the Committee for Prisoner Humanity and Justice; Socialist Review, executive editor, 1986-89, member of the editorial collective, 1986-91; Computer Land, Pleasanton, CA, managing editor, 1989—. The title of the series takes its name from a coffee shop in San Francisco that hosted a weekly poetry and performance series influential in the group’s formation. He has said that he was influenced by the "New American Poetry", referring to the poets who were published in Donald Allen's groundbreaking anthology The New American Poetry 1945–1960. [citation needed]. RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. “Often this means overstating the cohesiveness of poetic orthodoxies and their difference from dominant ideologies.”, Silliman’s influential collection of critical essays, The New Sentence, linked literary “realism” with bourgeoisie capitalism, and showed how both could be undermined by “the new sentence.” Silliman described the “new sentence” as one that controlled or minimized the “syllogistic” meaning expected from prose by altering the structure, length, and placement of the sentence to increase its ambiguity or polysemy. Ron Silliman doesn’t talk much about world literature or translation (in fact, as he notes, “to this date still no books in a foreign language”), but on the tenth anniversary of the birth of Silliman’s blog, he posted part of his take on “the question of national literatures, the Nation Question,” he says, “as my friends in the Old Left might have phrased it.” Ron Silliman has been crucial to the changing scope of contemporary American poetry for more than forty years. In the 1960s he was published by journals associated with what he calls the School of Quietude, such as Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, Southern Review and Poetry. Ron Silliman has written and edited forty books of poetry, critical theory, and memoir, most recently The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman.His work has been translated into sixteen languages. But the narrative effect is more peculiar as the sentences keep reappearing against different sentences.” According to T.C. Regarding the latter publication, he's said that it is: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, "unquestionably the most influential single anthology of the last century. Charles Bernstein (1950) and Ron Silliman (1946), pioneering and prolific poets, have both played a pivotal role in the trajectory of American poetry from the mid-1960s – when the Language poetry movement surfaced — to the present day. Let us go then, I & I, outward. “There is for some the desire to identify and distinguish from other poetry a specifically oppositional poetry,” Tuma wrote. Showing posts with label language. Ron Silliman’s long prose poem Ketjak (1978) is in part a swan song for 1960s radicalism, and the Fordist regime of capital accumulation undergirding that eras struggles for self-affirmation. At the end of the video is a section … Shelter in Place by Ron Silliman | Poetry Magazine poetryfoundation.org - Ron Silliman. Michael Kelleher, Daniel Bergmann, and Ron Silliman joined Al Filreis for a discussion of three poems by Larry Eigner. [4] This collaboration became part of what was called "an experiment in collective autobiography," co-authored by ten of these Language poets in San Francisco. He now devotes himself full-time to his writing and lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Ron Silliman, in his introduction to the collection in Ironwood, traces a kind of “anti-history” back to the early ’70s with the publication of two important journals, Tottel’s and This. Ron Silliman Salt Publishing, 2004, ($14.99) ... to define Language Poetry are useful in varying degrees and can be regarded as a springboard for thinking about Silliman’s new book and Language Poetry in general. Blue trashed sky. His memoir Under Albany (2004) was named Book of the Year by Small Press Traffic. Mexican comic (comment). In 2010, he received the annual Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. He has worked as an organizer in prisoner and tenant movements, as well as a lobbyist, teacher, and college administrator. Silliman was voted the Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere[8], "I’d contemplated Revelator as part of a quartet – one way of approaching Universe might be to think of it as 90 such quartets – and yet I’ve begun to realize that there are other possibilities of relation that might be articulated across a 360-part structure envisioned as a single turn...", Learn how and when to remove this template message, Silliman's Blog: weblog entry for Tuesday, October 31, 2006, Review: "Great Anthology: 'In the American Tree'", http://webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_six/Ron_Silliman.htm, http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=201315, http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/category/1148-silliman-ron/product/4431-ron-silliman-northern-soul, http://counterpathpress.org/against-conceptual-poetryron-silliman#sthash.1PJbdWFl.dpuf, Ron Silliman, making poetry, unmaking rules, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Silliman&oldid=893284378, BLP articles lacking sources from June 2018, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2013, Wikipedia external links cleanup from July 2014, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 April 2019, at 09:00. He is often associated with language poetry. "[1], Silliman was first published in Berkeley in 1965. Asked to discuss the role of reference in poetry, he wrote the essay, "Disappearance of the Author, Appearance of the World," which was first published in the journal Art Con. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. He is often associated with language poetry.Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet.He has now begun writing a new poem, Universe, the first section of which appears to be called Revelator. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet. Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. If and when completed, the entire work will consist of The Age of Huts (1974–1980), Tjanting (1979–1981), The Alphabet (1979–2004), and Universe (2005-). Ketjak is also the name of the book-length poem Silliman published in 1978, and is the first section of The Age of Huts. Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. Instead of considering poetry as a staging ground for the creation and expression of an ‘authentic’ voice and personality, language poetry arises out of an ‘exploded self,’ blurs genre boundaries … and seeks actively collaborative relationships between reader and writer.” The political angle of language poetry was discussed by Keith Tuma in the Chicago Review. Ron Silliman. Ron Silliman, “From Language Writing,” L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e 5 (October 1978): n. pag. Intimately connected with Silliman’s interest in poetics and critical theory, the poem Ketjak also made use of “new sentence” techniques. An old man stretched upon a couch, head on a pillow, longing for sleep like a desert for rain. Ron Silliman (born 5 August 1946 in Pasco, Washington) is an American poet.He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. Money is the aura of art. Show all posts. Ron Silliman, Manifest (La Laguna: Zasterle, 1990) 10. Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, as well as a PEW Fellow in the Arts in 1998. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. Ron Silliman has written and edited 30 books to date, most recently articipating in the multi-volume collaborative autobiography, The Grand Piano. Forms farm storm's harm. Jason Chen. 329 likes. The first, “Again dawn,” was written in November 1959; the second, “A temporary language,” was composed on September 1 and 2 in 1970; and the third, “Unyielding / … 406 Marjorie Perloff Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject structure in the organization and interpretation of poems. Ron Silliman has written and edited 30 books to date, most recently articipating in the multi-volume collaborative autobiography, The Grand Piano. Hello Select your address Prime Day Deals Best Sellers Customer Service New Releases AmazonBasics Whole Foods Gift Cards Free Shipping Registry Sell Coupons #FoundItOnAmazon Shopper Toolkit Find a Gift Disability Customer Support Best Sellers Customer Service New Releases AmazonBasics Whole Foods Gift Cards Free Shipping Registry Sell This is the format in which Silliman explores his major theme: the question of linguistic reference. Saddle-stitched. Consonant etched into vowel. Ron Silliman, “From Language Writing,” L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e 5 (October 1978): n. pag. RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. He is often associated with language poetry. Phlegm fuels cough. Ron Silliman discusses two erasure poems created by eliminating parts of an existing text. He edited In the American Tree (1986), which remains the primary Language poetry anthology, and he wrote one of the movement’s defining critical texts, The New Sentence (1987). The poet’s very rare first book, published by poet/printer Silliman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life and is associated with the Language school of contemporary writers. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. In 2012, Silliman was one of three Kelly Writers House Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania, together with Karen Finley and John Barth. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. The argument that poetry is fundamentally an effort to counter the anesthesia of language in general is certainly credible enough, but Silliman's version simply subsumes poetry to a larger ideological project, however much it purports to "unmask" ideology. Brooke Horvath also raises the question of the extent to which the status of prose-poems is due to a poetry that gradually gets to be seen rather than heard. He has long championed experimental or post-avant poetics, most recently through Silliman’s Blog, a weblog he started in 2002. Silliman worked as a market analyst in the computer industry before retiring at the end of 2011. 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