<?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.post114199255729413233..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/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.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>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114291558679094458</id><published>2006-03-20T23:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T23:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the Coach House reprint reference.  I h...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the Coach House reprint reference.  I had come across it while searching on the internet.  A more immediate and satisfying result happened yesterday, when I finally finished reading &lt;I&gt;Al Purdy&lt;/I&gt; and then opened up Bowering&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Touch: selected poems 1960-1970&lt;/I&gt;.  In Bowering&#39;s &quot;In True Diction&quot; to &lt;I&gt;Touch&lt;/I&gt;, he mentions that he has reprinted &lt;I&gt;Baseball&lt;/I&gt;.  So, I excitedly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114291558679094458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114291558679094458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142915580000#c114291558679094458' 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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114244362635058922</id><published>2006-03-15T12:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-15T12:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One more note on George Bowering:&quot;Baseball was rep...</title><summary type='text'>One more note on George Bowering:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Baseball was reprinted by Coach House press while George was poet laureate and is available&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.chbooks.com/tech/catalogue.cgi?&amp;t=baseball&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The original is very hard to find, and expensive. A real collector&#39;s &lt;BR/&gt;item.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The best way to get many of George&#39;s books, for those in the US is through www.abebooks.com&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114244362635058922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114244362635058922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142443620000#c114244362635058922' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 15, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114238758888024905</id><published>2006-03-14T20:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T20:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a quick note before this blog descends into o...</title><summary type='text'>Just a quick note before this blog descends into oblivion at the bottom of the scroll:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;These Bowering quotes are simply terrific! &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;_____&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Her innocence&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I feed off that&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am so greedy for her&lt;BR/&gt;life. It’s so hard&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;to come back, throw away&lt;BR/&gt;your life at the typewriter&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rather toss with her&lt;BR/&gt;on the living room rug&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;go </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114238758888024905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114238758888024905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142387580000#c114238758888024905' 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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114236475762960140</id><published>2006-03-14T14:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T14:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i concede...and know for a fact that truth rings i...</title><summary type='text'>i concede...and know for a fact that truth rings in your observation...heard recently michael peter smith      master of the back ground ...   lessons on flying below the radar  ...   and yes i know the good ones are out there doing it real...if neil&#39;s recent work is not folk    hell,   what is?...   and another thesis:    it&#39;s all folk music...just different folk doing different things...hip hop</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114236475762960140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114236475762960140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142364720000#c114236475762960140' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114232267900475805</id><published>2006-03-14T02:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T02:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>John, folk music has gone &quot;underground&quot; in America...</title><summary type='text'>John, folk music has gone &quot;underground&quot; in America--which means no major label will touch it, and it has no support from the traditional institutions that finance music. Folk societies still exist, but most of them only bring in the safest musicians--those who will comfortably remind the audience of the time they first heard folk music--thirty or forty or fifty years ago.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t see how</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114232267900475805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114232267900475805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142322660000#c114232267900475805' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114231820167591961</id><published>2006-03-14T01:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-14T01:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the canadian view of the states is perhaps our bes...</title><summary type='text'>the canadian view of the states is perhaps our best intelligence...i will seek out bowering...i have a thesis about canadian folk music...it remains vital because it did not cave to commercialism the way american folk music has had to...neil young still serves it up whole and true...as does lightfoot...cohen...ian tyson...garnet rogers and others...recently met guy vanderhaeghe...that writer has </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114231820167591961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114231820167591961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142318160000#c114231820167591961' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114222175246098393</id><published>2006-03-12T22:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-12T22:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot; and yet destroying Stalin&#39;s tank divisions&quot;those...</title><summary type='text'>&quot; and yet destroying Stalin&#39;s tank divisions&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;those same divisions that destroyed the better part of the nazi war machine? ;)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;a few leftists, but for the most part they would all get in the trenches to stop the Russians again&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;america -- a few leftists, but for the most part they would all get in the trenches to stop the Russians again</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114222175246098393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114222175246098393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142221740000#c114222175246098393' title=''/><author><name>Dirt Editor</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15170198934366915835</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1982671354"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114218245180333581</id><published>2006-03-12T11:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-12T11:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In Finland on Christmas Eve the citizens light can...</title><summary type='text'>In Finland on Christmas Eve the citizens light candles on the graves of their war dead.  It&#39;s a strange sight to walk through the cemeteries in 20 below weather and see these candles, and all the citizens out to honor their fallen.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One of the hardest things to explain in classes in Finland was how so many in America don&#39;t love their country, and don&#39;t honor their dead.  We do still have </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114218245180333581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114218245180333581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142182440000#c114218245180333581' 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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114218043259045377</id><published>2006-03-12T11:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-12T11:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paul Nelson wrote:...I look forward to his latest ...</title><summary type='text'>Paul Nelson wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;...&lt;I&gt;I look forward to his latest book &quot;Baseball Love&quot; coming out next month on Talon Books:&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.talonbooks.com/index.cfm?event=titleDetails&amp;ISBN=088922529X even if he still believes the White Sox World Series 2005 Championship as just a product of my imagination.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for the tip on this.  I noticed in &lt;I&gt;Touch&lt;/I&gt; that the list of other books by</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114218043259045377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114218043259045377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142180400000#c114218043259045377' 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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114212007843222207</id><published>2006-03-11T18:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-11T18:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m currently reading Bowering&#39;s little book on Al...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m currently reading Bowering&#39;s little book on Al Purdy, and I have a copy of &lt;I&gt;Touch: selected poems 1960-1970&lt;/I&gt; that I&#39;m looking forward to reading soon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have a hard time with patriotism.  My wife&#39;s uncle served in WWII and was given a military burial complete with 21 gun salute at his funeral last Saturday.  During the colors ceremony  the chaplin recited a text that included a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114212007843222207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114212007843222207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142120040000#c114212007843222207' 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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-326822307"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114203907097532398</id><published>2006-03-10T20:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T20:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>1) Great Bowering! I must read more.2) Plenty of r...</title><summary type='text'>1) Great Bowering! I must read more.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2) Plenty of reasons to be leery of flying the flag. After 9/11, many people put &#39;em up as a display of patriotism or some kind of therapy or communal affirmation. Then GW used the mass flag-waving as evidence of support for the &quot;war on terror.&quot; I knew patriots who felt stuck; they actually weren&#39;t in favor of bombing massive numbers of civilians in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114203907097532398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114203907097532398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142039040000#c114203907097532398' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114202472375941468</id><published>2006-03-10T16:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T16:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Thanks for digging out some GB for the blog. A...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for digging out some GB for the blog. After having spent a week in his poetry class last summer at the Victoria School of Writing, I&#39;ve come to know him and his work and feel he deserves MUCH wider attention in the States. I especially love his Kerrisdale Elegies and recommend that. I have heard rumors of that book being published again.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He is an excellent teacher </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202472375941468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202472375941468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142024700000#c114202472375941468' title=''/><author><name>Washington Poets Association</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14186338347578079141</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679927556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114202072074684955</id><published>2006-03-10T14:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T14:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202072074684955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202072074684955'/><author><name>J. Patrick Fadely</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15052597659965205879</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1687380364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114202051346685868</id><published>2006-03-10T14:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T14:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>yeah, it&#39;s symptomatic of a wide-spread European i...</title><summary type='text'>yeah, it&#39;s symptomatic of a wide-spread European insecurity about nationalism ever since the second world war. Here in Britain, the union flag has been pretty much stolen by the far-right British National Party, and it now carries a very real stigma---as if to display it you are identifying yourself with racist imperialists. I definitely envy America&#39;s ease with patriotism (even though it, too, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202051346685868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202051346685868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142020500000#c114202051346685868' title=''/><author><name>Dave Hull</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01102839948135159203</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-299797301"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114202032691734639</id><published>2006-03-10T14:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T14:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Was there a time when poets knew something?</title><summary type='text'>Was there a time when poets knew something?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202032691734639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114202032691734639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142020320000#c114202032691734639' title=''/><author><name>The majority of people</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10453461965537804942</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1658727262"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114201933566120780</id><published>2006-03-10T14:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T14:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve heard the same stigma exists about displaying...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve heard the same stigma exists about displaying the flag in France. If you have it hanging outside your house, people take you as a severe, almost Nazi-level, right-wing conservative.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114201933566120780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114201933566120780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142019300000#c114201933566120780' title=''/><author><name>Max</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08281077276424886352</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-380863914"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114201705835747919</id><published>2006-03-10T13:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T13:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>good to see you writing about George Bowering -- &amp;...</title><summary type='text'>good to see you writing about George Bowering -- &amp; posting photos of him [1970 &amp; now] on www.flickr.com</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114201705835747919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114201705835747919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142017020000#c114201705835747919' title=''/><author><name>Tony Green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13492210498538450577</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-870372789"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114201682363149433</id><published>2006-03-10T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T13:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweden remained neutral throughout WWII.</title><summary type='text'>Sweden remained neutral throughout WWII.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114201682363149433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114201682363149433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142016780000#c114201682363149433' 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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114200813631699433</id><published>2006-03-10T11:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T11:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Good post. While I was in Scandanavia, especially ...</title><summary type='text'>Good post. While I was in Scandanavia, especially Sweden, I noticed this fascination/repulsion dynamic writ large. I remember having a conversation with a guy in a bar who envied the fact that in the US, people display the flag. Apparently in Sweden, it brings up too much angst over National Socialism. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I find myself thinking more clearly about my country when I see it through the eyes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114200813631699433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114200813631699433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142008080000#c114200813631699433' title=''/><author><name>J. Patrick Fadely</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15052597659965205879</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1687380364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114200390554612033</id><published>2006-03-10T10:18:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T10:18:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t have much technical analysis for you on th...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t have much technical analysis for you on these poems other than they felt appropriate and I liked reading them.  It was that simple.  My favorite lines:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The world came by &amp; did it / &amp; who runs this world / indeed indeed indeed indeed...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for this post.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114200390554612033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114200390554612033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142003880001#c114200390554612033' title=''/><author><name>Curt Stump</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05608837179255456958</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1321715709"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114200389551667907</id><published>2006-03-10T10:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T10:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Funnily enough, have been thinking about George Bo...</title><summary type='text'>Funnily enough, have been thinking about George Bowering.  Never meeting him (Calgary / Edmonton was long way apart those days--at least for us timid people) was obviously a big mistake.  The matter of &#39;war&#39; will continue to be with us.  My dad fought in WW2 and Korea.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114200389551667907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114199255729413233/comments/default/114200389551667907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html?showComment=1142003880000#c114200389551667907' title=''/><author><name>JOT</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17666603281422565075</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/2006/03/i-have-come-across-perfectly-wonderful.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114199255729413233' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114199255729413233' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1558481342"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 10, 2006"/></entry></feed>