<?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.post113906901559372216..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/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.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>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113951722641253750</id><published>2006-02-09T15:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T15:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tom Clark has been a special case for a long time....</title><summary type='text'>Tom Clark has been a special case for a long time.  He was a brilliant imitator in his youth, absorbing diverse influences--including New York School (Koch, O&#39;Hara, etc.), and the Brits (including Raworth and Bunting)--as well as thumbing his literary nose at tradition.  When things got tough on easy street, he turned to nonfiction prose and journalism to make his way, and that proved to be the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113951722641253750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113951722641253750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html?showComment=1139517180000#c113951722641253750' 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/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113906901559372216' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113906901559372216' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113951029107794462</id><published>2006-02-09T13:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T13:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah but there are more difficult cases, Curtis.  Fo...</title><summary type='text'>Ah but there are more difficult cases, Curtis.  For instance Tom Clark&#39;s new and selected just out from Coffee House Press has blurbs from both Billy Collins and Joanne Kyger, and has been reviewed quite positively by Elaine Equi and has a foreword by Amy Gerstler.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But it is Billy Collins&#39; blurb that is listed first.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ontologically, Collins carries a lot of weight for a supposed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113951029107794462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113951029107794462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html?showComment=1139510280000#c113951029107794462' 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/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113906901559372216' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113906901559372216' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113949936005821146</id><published>2006-02-09T10:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T10:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We come once again to the problem of audiences.  I...</title><summary type='text'>We come once again to the problem of audiences.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you need, Kirby, to worry less about the populist influence on poetry.  There are thousands of little &quot;gift&quot; books of &quot;rhyme&quot; published every year for the general public--and for those whose interest in it is peripheral, or at a very &quot;low&quot; level, that&#39;s just fine.  Sort of like greeting cards.  I knew a guy at Iowa who had worked </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113949936005821146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113949936005821146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html?showComment=1139499360000#c113949936005821146' 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/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113906901559372216' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113906901559372216' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113944257367399511</id><published>2006-02-08T18:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-08T18:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One could make the case that even Marianne Moore i...</title><summary type='text'>One could make the case that even Marianne Moore is a neglectorino since I don&#39;t think anybody has ever actually read her.  To have one terribly serious reader who actually tries to understand a poet is probably the rarest thing around.  Reading Shakespeare criticism I have the same feeling.  Nobody is really reading the poor fellow.  Then we get back, as always, to Billy Collins...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113944257367399511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113906901559372216/comments/default/113944257367399511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html?showComment=1139442540000#c113944257367399511' 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/2006/02/darrell-gray-photo-by-alistair.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113906901559372216' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113906901559372216' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 08, 2006"/></entry></feed>