<?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.post1471065808957287678..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/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.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>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-429486475474401679</id><published>2009-03-07T11:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T11:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, Absolutely one of the premier poets of, well,...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, Absolutely one of the premier poets of, well, ANY time, yep, definitely.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Ha!  I just opened my #41 copy of _Riddle Road_ and it&#39;s got a xerox of Russian &quot;Metaphorical Poets,&quot; &quot;Conceptual Poets,&quot; and &quot;Metaphysical Poets.&quot;  I wonder where the heck that thing came from... Arkadii Dragomoshchenko came to San Francisco, I forget which venue, around 1990, but my _Riddle Road_ and my </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/429486475474401679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/429486475474401679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1236442560000#c429486475474401679' title=''/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12130438006583799672</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cDVl_fkIEzw/SUbWPJf2dvI/AAAAAAAAABU/GaFCYqNZS9I/S220/steve_ygb8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-253862874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2937272865978759500</id><published>2009-02-26T18:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T18:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Newspapers are dying because they&#39;re simply too sl...</title><summary type='text'>Newspapers are dying because they&#39;re simply too slow of a medium now.  Being a daily is too slow.  Preferably, news must be hourly, or quicker.  The major U.S. papers all have internet editions, and most of them have blogs within them.  Blog features allow even further updating and create the sense of continuing news.  You can&#39;t do this with a newspaper.  I don&#39;t expect newspapers will be around </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/2937272865978759500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/2937272865978759500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235689200000#c2937272865978759500' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3026873395934798757</id><published>2009-02-26T17:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T17:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis asks, &quot;could a major American city function...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis asks, &quot;could a major American city function without a responsible daily.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Some might say San Francisco has been exactly that for about 30 or 40 years.....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;With &lt;I&gt;The Huffington Post&lt;/I&gt; being called on by Obama at his first White House news conference, and that site getting thousands (millions?) of hits each day, and with much of the NY Times breaking news content </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/3026873395934798757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/3026873395934798757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235687280000#c3026873395934798757' 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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1496379900478390046</id><published>2009-02-26T11:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T11:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy:I think an interesting discussion could be op...</title><summary type='text'>Andy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think an interesting discussion could be opened with respect to how the age of &quot;software&quot; has effected, influenced literature.  What are the implications of the existence of seemingly limitless data-banks, the world-wide web, our increasing dependence upon it for information, &quot;connectivity,&quot; news, advice.  It&#39;s provided a completely new sense of time, as well.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/1496379900478390046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/1496379900478390046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235667180000#c1496379900478390046' 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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4627821916999367289</id><published>2009-02-25T21:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T21:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s debatable--I say it with two, but the rolling...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s debatable--I say it with two, but the rolling out to the (technically correct) three does open up the line in a more beautiful way. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s interesting that KR is in this category for you. I see him as the ultimate &quot;think on your toes&quot; poet (esp. with regard to work), a writer whose texts are crisp embodiments of a singular attentiveness to the everyday and the everyminute--and I see </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/4627821916999367289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/4627821916999367289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235614500000#c4627821916999367289' title=''/><author><name>Cannot Exist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10167824836001706644</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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1617347097"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-873940457507921786</id><published>2009-02-25T18:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T18:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If one is talking about *sound*, then there are re...</title><summary type='text'>If one is talking about *sound*, then there are really two syllables in &quot;every,&quot; Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The second &#39;e&#39; is elided.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not to be too pedantic...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kent</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/873940457507921786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/873940457507921786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235606160000#c873940457507921786' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7332492912130354876</id><published>2009-02-25T12:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T12:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is this a trick question?</title><summary type='text'>Is this a trick question?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/7332492912130354876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/7332492912130354876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235584260000#c7332492912130354876' title=''/><author><name>pd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00985802485996146079</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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-765084016"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7838632039820039531</id><published>2009-02-25T12:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T12:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>PD,How many syllables are in &quot;every&quot;?</title><summary type='text'>PD,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How many syllables are in &quot;every&quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/7838632039820039531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/7838632039820039531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235582520000#c7838632039820039531' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5066500828807628566</id><published>2009-02-25T11:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T11:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I will say this at risk of embarrassing myself. Yo...</title><summary type='text'>I will say this at risk of embarrassing myself. You wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Watch the by-no-means-accidental positioning of two- &amp;amp; &lt;B&gt;three-syllable&lt;/B&gt; words &lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is it just me, or are there no three syllable words in that excerpt?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m asking because I learn a lot from your close readings. Hopefully I don&#39;t sound too pedantic.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/5066500828807628566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/5066500828807628566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235580600000#c5066500828807628566' title=''/><author><name>pd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00985802485996146079</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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-765084016"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7761965171849024403</id><published>2009-02-25T11:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T11:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d be interested to know what you think about Kit...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d be interested to know what you think about Kit&#39;s version of the &quot;high tech&quot; environment.  What connections exist between it, and the evident syntheses of his style.  The technology of mass production in Oppen, or Bernstein.  Etc.  Is the &quot;soft age&quot; compression of data and the power of information expressed in Robinson&#39;s work, as irony, leverage?  Etc. I think Robinson disdains blogging, for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/7761965171849024403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/7761965171849024403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235578080000#c7761965171849024403' 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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3827866226227373979</id><published>2009-02-25T10:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T10:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;And notice its very fragmentary existence, l...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;And notice its very fragmentary existence, like a portrait of an individual that shows you only an ear&amp;quot;--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Brett Weston Ear &amp;amp; Three Fingers comes immediately to mind--one of the iconic images of 20th Century photography.  (I can&amp;#39;t post pictures to the comment box.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/3827866226227373979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/3827866226227373979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235577540000#c3827866226227373979' 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/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8675621047986005900</id><published>2009-02-25T09:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T09:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Simply the best we have.</title><summary type='text'>Simply the best we have.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/8675621047986005900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1471065808957287678/comments/default/8675621047986005900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html?showComment=1235572860000#c8675621047986005900' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-of-my-favorite-poets-are.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1471065808957287678' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1471065808957287678' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2009"/></entry></feed>