<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113525544964668536..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4610084372525973345</id><published>2008-07-22T00:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T00:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I had never seen that photo before Ron and for me ...</title><summary type='text'>I had never seen that photo before Ron and for me it&#39;s a real treat.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not sure how the conversation switched to Charles Simic and I don&#39;t care, Reed Bye is ahead of his time, so is Jack Collom.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Two of the best poets of your generation, with or without a thousand books on the market.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Think I&#39;m off my rocker, pick up a copy of  Join The Planets or Red Car Goes By. &lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/4610084372525973345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/4610084372525973345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1216699560000#c4610084372525973345' title=''/><author><name>Gary Parrish</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09446212454796875908</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://a614.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_e4aa9fa7812c0f94eb3f12932f507eed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-176615294"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113565789913782456</id><published>2005-12-26T23:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T23:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Yellow Knife School is based smack dab in the ...</title><summary type='text'>The Yellow Knife School is based smack dab in the center of the ice fields.  That is where it is but there are vectors leading to Russia, Beirut, Bisbee, Carmel, trucking routes which touch on all of these and Africa, the Bayou, Canada and wherever Dale is.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113565789913782456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113565789913782456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135657860000#c113565789913782456' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113561804687275632</id><published>2005-12-26T12:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T12:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for this!</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for this!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113561804687275632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113561804687275632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135618020000#c113561804687275632' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113560104953103057</id><published>2005-12-26T07:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T07:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,from what you write about pursuing poets who...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;from what you write about pursuing poets who are big on ideas &amp; have a trickster edge to them, I would guess that you might enjoy Rafael Pérez Estrada. If you haven&#39;t read him there&#39;s at least one selection translated into english, I forget who published it, but you&#39;ll find it if you google him. Crazy andalucian humour</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113560104953103057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113560104953103057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135601040000#c113560104953103057' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113557162121916559</id><published>2005-12-25T23:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-25T23:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh my education is so minimal but suffice it to sa...</title><summary type='text'>Oh my education is so minimal but suffice it to say that I prefer mental cleverness over great emotional depth.  I suspect the Russians such as Akhmatova of going for emotional depth into a murky place that I prefer to avoid.  It&#39;s a sensibility issue.  This is why I like Christo.  He goes into a place of mental inventiveness and doesn&#39;t drag me into murkiness.  This is one big reason I gave up </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113557162121916559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113557162121916559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135571580000#c113557162121916559' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113556579246594990</id><published>2005-12-25T21:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-25T21:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Simic seems exotic to me because of the simplicity...</title><summary type='text'>Simic seems exotic to me because of the simplicity of his early poems.  They&#39;re &quot;impersonal&quot; in the way they don&#39;t make any specific autobiographical references, except perhaps as in &quot;I like women with large breasts&quot; and he proceeds to write a beautiful poem about that.  He reminds, come to think of it, of Kosinski--that Slavic bluntness and rectitude that convinces by its earnestness.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113556579246594990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113556579246594990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135565760000#c113556579246594990' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113553293366240220</id><published>2005-12-25T12:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-25T12:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve always wondered why I didn&#39;t like Simic so yo...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve always wondered why I didn&#39;t like Simic so your support of his work made me read a chapter of Peter Stitt&#39;s Uncertainty &amp; Plenitude: Five contemporary Poets (Iowa 1997) because I remembered he had a chapter on Simic.  I picked it up on a sale table for a dollar a couple weeks ago because Hartwick College sold their quite good bookstore to Barnes And Noble and they sold off their whole stock </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113553293366240220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113553293366240220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135532880000#c113553293366240220' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113545861240485604</id><published>2005-12-24T16:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T16:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I like Simic, especially the early work, and the s...</title><summary type='text'>I like Simic, especially the early work, and the stuff in his prize collection (which is a bit later).  Also Akhmatova--wow!*  And Mandelstam.  And some of Milosz.  I&#39;ve never understood what all the excitement was about Rilke (&quot;change your life&quot; rah rah rah).  How about Batki&#39;s translations of Athila Josef?  How about Cadhafy (how do you spell it?).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I regard Christo and Codrescu as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113545861240485604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113545861240485604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135458600000#c113545861240485604' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113544248165176987</id><published>2005-12-24T11:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T11:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Codrescu still writes in Romanian.  He recently pu...</title><summary type='text'>Codrescu still writes in Romanian.  He recently published a book called Miracle and Catastrophe in that language (to put it in Romanian would require lots of funny accent marks).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;At any rate you say you don&#39;t trust him, Curtis.  Why not?  Is it because he&#39;s Eastern European?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A lot of people don&#39;t trust him. I suppose I feel the opposite.  As soon as I saw his journal in 1983 I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113544248165176987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113544248165176987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135442460000#c113544248165176987' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113544008283495842</id><published>2005-12-24T11:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T11:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, Codrescu arrived at age 18 or 19.  I think...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, Codrescu arrived at age 18 or 19.  I think he&#39;s 59 now.  So you&#39;re right.  40 years.  You seem in general to have a problem with Eastern Europeans.  I&#39;m thinking of your remarks on Christo, too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve always liked them on the other hand.  I have an implicit faith in them (which Codrescu thinks is insane of me).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So far as I know -- Codrescu is one of the only poets at </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113544008283495842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113544008283495842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135440060000#c113544008283495842' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113540292328477457</id><published>2005-12-24T00:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T00:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Codrescu hasn&#39;t been here that long.  I think Anse...</title><summary type='text'>Codrescu hasn&#39;t been here that long.  I think Anselm has been here about 40 years, Andre about 35 years.  Anselm is a little older, too.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve distrusted Codrescu&#39;s agenda from the beginning, and nothing he has ever written or said has changed my original estimation.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sorry Andre.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113540292328477457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113540292328477457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135402920000#c113540292328477457' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113537476833366322</id><published>2005-12-23T16:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T16:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anonymous -- are you sure of this about Reznikoff?...</title><summary type='text'>Anonymous -- are you sure of this about Reznikoff? His parents were Russian immigrants but did he speak Russian at home?  I don&#39;t remember this.  He tried to learn Hebrew later on -- but it was a struggle for him -- there&#39;s a verse in the Selected --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How difficult for me is Hebrew:&lt;BR/&gt;even the Hebrew for mother, for bread, for sun&lt;BR/&gt;is foreign. How far have I been exiled, Zion.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113537476833366322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113537476833366322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135374720000#c113537476833366322' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113537252142613760</id><published>2005-12-23T16:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T16:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>all right, al right...place is important. Maybe it...</title><summary type='text'>all right, al right...place is important. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe it&#39;s just because I got so little out of the one where I came from and wish i had left it yers earlier. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I read similar stats about German funding versus our own...and the rest goes for napalm and white phosphorous etc  sick&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;steve in taipei&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i think Seoul will be interesting btw -- 12,000,000 people !</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113537252142613760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113537252142613760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135372500000#c113537252142613760' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113536502286707770</id><published>2005-12-23T14:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T14:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>BTW, speaking of Reznikoff - not a English-as-a fi...</title><summary type='text'>BTW, speaking of Reznikoff - not a English-as-a first-language poet, either.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113536502286707770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113536502286707770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135365000000#c113536502286707770' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113536401473723275</id><published>2005-12-23T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T13:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve,Borges is the dreamer in the ocean liner as ...</title><summary type='text'>Steve,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Borges is the dreamer in the ocean liner as well as the master of the Porteño café, which is perhaps more Italian than it is South American and the reason why people eat there.  Arlt is the real Porteño.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I see in magazine interviews grad students who state being adverse to travel, suggesting that it is some sort of reactionary comfort.  When they graduate to the lecture </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113536401473723275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113536401473723275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135363980000#c113536401473723275' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113536041660100057</id><published>2005-12-23T12:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T12:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m just worried that Steve in Taipei might move t...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m just worried that Steve in Taipei might move to Minneapolis, because then I may get very confused.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not sure what name would be appropriate for the New York School.  It strikes me that at the time, even though most of the poets weren&#39;t originally New Yorkers, it was important for them to meet up in New York and that a synergy resulted from that community, which would not have </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113536041660100057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113536041660100057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135360380000#c113536041660100057' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15418310802340579561</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113535378485059552</id><published>2005-12-23T11:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T11:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Place matters -- it seems to be becoming a lense t...</title><summary type='text'>Place matters -- it seems to be becoming a lense through which we can think -- but does it equal race, gender, class?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There seem to be some new criteria developing alongside those big three of r, g, c.  Religious background really matters I find even though few of us can think about it.  To me it&#39;s crucial.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Once I can &quot;place&quot; someone in terms of where they grew up they start </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113535378485059552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113535378485059552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135353780000#c113535378485059552' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113534675778266227</id><published>2005-12-23T09:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T09:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Although only somewhat related to this topic (and ...</title><summary type='text'>Although only somewhat related to this topic (and debate in this comments forum), the notion of the importance of place to a poet can indeed, as Steve in T. was saying, affect the various positionings of that author&#39;s work.  I, for instance, grew up in the Coal Belt.  We had one representative poet for that area.  In school, we read about him. He was &quot;poetry.&quot; Whom he read was &quot;poetry.&quot;  (Notion </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113534675778266227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113534675778266227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135346700000#c113534675778266227' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113533614120860937</id><published>2005-12-23T06:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T06:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I dont identify myself with place; I only identify...</title><summary type='text'>I dont identify myself with place; I only identify the place where I&#39;m at. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;having said that I think tapei shoudl be put on the map of American lit, as Paris has been.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;but I&#39;m sure your best worl would stand out anywhere. i dont know why you are so intent on categorizing writers according to where they come from/or live. Is Borges a Buenos Aries writer? Proust a Paris writer? </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113533614120860937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113533614120860937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135336140000#c113533614120860937' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113531845116776020</id><published>2005-12-23T01:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T01:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting how you always identify yourself with ...</title><summary type='text'>Interesting how you always identify yourself with place, Steve</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113531845116776020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113531845116776020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135318440000#c113531845116776020' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113531715225287414</id><published>2005-12-23T00:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T00:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>sorry I meanst RS in the prevous postnew keyboards...</title><summary type='text'>sorry I meanst RS in the prevous post&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;new keyboard&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;ssssssteveeee ffffff</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113531715225287414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113531715225287414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135317120000#c113531715225287414' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113531690391307720</id><published>2005-12-23T00:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T00:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the idea of poetry and place is one  of teh worst ...</title><summary type='text'>the idea of poetry and place is one  of teh worst ideas in conterempary aesthetics, it  virually insures mediocriy by  means of the provincial and corruption by means of the pinciple of &quot; know who&quot;.  it is no wonder that RR champions it, since he woudl be little without these two factors.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers&lt;BR/&gt;SF</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113531690391307720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113531690391307720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135316880000#c113531690391307720' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113528177819986686</id><published>2005-12-22T15:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T15:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>When I was at Naropa 1977  and 1979 summers it see...</title><summary type='text'>When I was at Naropa 1977  and 1979 summers it seemed that no one took Reed Bye seriously because at the time he was considered to be &quot;just&quot; Waldman&#39;s beau -- a very good-looking young man -- almost a perfect Ken-doll in appearance and there was a rumor that he had had a military background so that he just couldn&#39;t be taken seriously.  In contrast to the flaccid hippies lying around </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113528177819986686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113528177819986686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135281720000#c113528177819986686' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113527060245130132</id><published>2005-12-22T11:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T11:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Thanks for posting &quot;The Outflakes&quot;.It fits per...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for posting &quot;The Outflakes&quot;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It fits perfectly with the text&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m reading at the moment, W.J.T. Mitchell&#39;s _What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images_&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not sure if I can do a great close&lt;BR/&gt;reading spontaneously but I&#39;ll&lt;BR/&gt;make an attempt because it expresses&lt;BR/&gt;some potential poetics concepts &lt;BR/&gt;which I think are under-represented.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113527060245130132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113527060245130132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135270560000#c113527060245130132' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113526650762323736</id><published>2005-12-22T10:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T10:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;: the personal, casual tone; identifying people b...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;: the personal, casual tone; identifying people by first name alone; the presence of slang; the use of the second-person to frame an internal dialog; an inherent optimism; the off-hand way in which the poem itself is discussed; the whole concept of writing about a sneeze.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Though I dread the deluge of gripes that will surely follow, I might propose, based on the above characteristics, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113526650762323736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113525544964668536/comments/default/113526650762323736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html?showComment=1135266480000#c113526650762323736' title=''/><author><name>myshkin2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12334340208396536106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/l-r-reed-bye-harry-smith-jack-collom.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113525544964668536' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113525544964668536' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-16179833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry></feed>