<?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.post1375927859637911982..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/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6384944667377657107</id><published>2008-12-30T09:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T09:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One possible effect of the demise of the trade boo...</title><summary type='text'>One possible effect of the demise of the trade book publication industry may be a reawakening of writers&#39; engagement with material text, the means of their own promotion as print reality.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most serious writers have traditionally ceded this awareness and engagement to publishers/editors/printers, accepting the cliches of format and distribution as givens in a world they had no control over</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/6384944667377657107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/6384944667377657107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230646200000#c6384944667377657107' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7576119419874026634</id><published>2008-12-29T15:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T15:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the unexpected link, Ron. That&#39;s anothe...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the unexpected link, Ron. That&#39;s another item I can cross off my &lt;I&gt;Things To Achieve Before I Die&lt;/I&gt; list!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/7576119419874026634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/7576119419874026634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230582600000#c7576119419874026634' title=''/><author><name>Rik</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10564300512472868098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1028/1161893762_96f2d27563_s.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1097429834"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6080070842264047120</id><published>2008-12-29T14:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T14:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, the Great God Wikipedia indicates that Spicer ...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, the Great God Wikipedia indicates that Spicer himself not only wrote a poem called &quot;One Night Stand&quot; but later referred to all of his free-standing earlier poems as &quot;one night stands&quot;. Still, the LA Times reviewer did have the intelligence to enjoy and transmit this wordplay, and still it contrasts with his dopey mistake about Ginsberg&#39;s attitude towards Whitman in &quot;A Supermarket in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/6080070842264047120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/6080070842264047120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230578340000#c6080070842264047120' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3415668704166950796</id><published>2008-12-29T14:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T14:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The LA Times review of the Spicer book is weird be...</title><summary type='text'>The LA Times review of the Spicer book is weird because it&#39;s not totally out to junch like the NY Times review (Spicer is &quot;wackier than MacLeish&quot;--who woulda thunk it?), and has at least one wonderful insight--relating the Spicerian phrase &quot;one night stands&quot; to the &#39;independently standing&#39; nature of Spicer&#39;s pre-series poems; and yet the author, Edward Champion, if I am remembering his name </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/3415668704166950796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/3415668704166950796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230577500000#c3415668704166950796' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</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/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5601968466888884694</id><published>2008-12-29T12:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T12:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanx for the link</title><summary type='text'>Thanx for the link</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/5601968466888884694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/5601968466888884694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230570360000#c5601968466888884694' title=''/><author><name>Mona</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14097089555295137255</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CId289lYIdc/SRBhLYByZDI/AAAAAAAAAkI/C5MXsq5tUzw/S220/tim.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1739181000"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6572972829167739778</id><published>2008-12-29T12:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T12:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron, Happy Almost New Year!That rare Whitman ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Happy Almost New Year!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That rare Whitman set of books that you link to, that is up for auction includes -- and this is truly special -- a full page of  manuscript handwritten by Walt.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For Really Big Fun, click on the image of that handwritten manuscript page on the auction site you link to in your post, and read what ol&#39; Walt wrote. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What Whitman </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/6572972829167739778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/6572972829167739778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230570180000#c6572972829167739778' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1569465652699702527</id><published>2008-12-29T11:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T11:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My Dad was happy he outlived Mark Felt, considerin...</title><summary type='text'>My Dad was happy he outlived Mark Felt, considering his identity would have been protected until this week, probably. My Dad was new to this country just before Watergate happened and spent much of his time in those days watching John Chancellor and really getting into Nixon.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/1569465652699702527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/1569465652699702527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230568800000#c1569465652699702527' title=''/><author><name>Amish Trivedi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11839976680249253602</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1354/661905087_10a77a8653.jpg?v=0'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832955061"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4404329580954108703</id><published>2008-12-29T07:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T07:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think that BAP review was written my Jeffrey Bah...</title><summary type='text'>I think that BAP review was written my Jeffrey Bahr and not Jim Behrle.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/4404329580954108703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1375927859637911982/comments/default/4404329580954108703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html?showComment=1230554400000#c4404329580954108703' title=''/><author><name>Mark</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12907078718133120295</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.comcast.net/~mark.lamoureux/spaceglider.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/lurid-ny-times-review-of-jack-spicers.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1375927859637911982' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1375927859637911982' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1006589168"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 29, 2008"/></entry></feed>