<?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.post2443165976825370951..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/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5979528358782071175</id><published>2007-11-08T09:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-08T09:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron&#39;s confusion about the TS Eliot Prize, and abil...</title><summary type='text'>Ron&#39;s confusion about the TS Eliot Prize, and ability to prejudge a book he couldn&#39;t physically have seen yet (not that I suspect he&#39;ll be reading it anyway), epitomizes the bad faith at the heart of his School of Quietude Pontius Pilate fantasy. As long as he can not just not read, but elevate not reading to a higher virtue, and expect to trade on this with infantile jokes and sneers -- then all</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/5979528358782071175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/5979528358782071175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194531420000#c5979528358782071175' title=''/><author><name>puthwuth</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851</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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301628169"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4921698164089812984</id><published>2007-11-08T07:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-08T07:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I heard Saroyan read that piece (&quot;Autobiography&quot;) ...</title><summary type='text'>I heard Saroyan read that piece (&quot;Autobiography&quot;) earlier this month and was in total awe.  His reading with Elaine Equi at The Poets House in Manhattan was one of the best readings I have seen in quite some time.  The reading influenced my own practice in a pretty profound way, and it isn&#39;t often that one can say that about a reading.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Saroyan and Robert Lax get at the heart of what I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/4921698164089812984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/4921698164089812984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194526080000#c4921698164089812984' 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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1006589168"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5585917825499393788</id><published>2007-11-07T22:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T22:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i wasnt there, but i can tell you what bob said ab...</title><summary type='text'>i wasnt there, but i can tell you what bob said about it to me in a hurried phone call--a second hand rumor report.  all bob chose to mention was a newer saroyan piece entitled autobiography: he recited the name of each year since he was born, interspersed with pauses.  in the absence of any other context most auditors, no doubt, had little to consider but their own recollections of that year, so</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/5585917825499393788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/5585917825499393788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194492420000#c5585917825499393788' title=''/><author><name>Tinker Greene</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16667761674945417190</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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-204239496"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3412586428642743822</id><published>2007-11-06T23:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T23:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>as a collector, i&#39;m not sure about lame duck books...</title><summary type='text'>as a collector, i&#39;m not sure about lame duck books.  i&#39;ve never been there in person, but i&#39;ve looked over their stock online, &amp; have frequently found myself infuriated by their prices, among other things.  they seem to buy everything up by whichever author--borges is a good example--then jack up the prices accordingly.  also, this sentence is pretty funny: &quot;Lame Duck is full of first editions of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/3412586428642743822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/3412586428642743822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194411120000#c3412586428642743822' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Lovelace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05102096990378842027</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://a280.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/100/l_8dd33714aed41fa7bcfea7cfd2111e37.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-925484810"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5859563269990323299</id><published>2007-11-06T09:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T09:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>the bard in prison story ringshopeful in the landt...</title><summary type='text'>the bard in prison story rings&lt;BR/&gt;hopeful in the land&lt;BR/&gt;taking the notion of the best artisitic themes and applying them to the places in our society where perhaps they will do the most good&lt;BR/&gt;is an agenda that needs more energy&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;we tend to think of shakespeare as a necessary step to being culturally enlightened in the english speaking west&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;but to take him to the bowels &lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/5859563269990323299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/5859563269990323299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194358920000#c5859563269990323299' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1153142612090491200</id><published>2007-11-06T05:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T05:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ron, 3 more things noted on a second look—1)I s...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;3 more things noted on a second look—&lt;BR/&gt;1)I see on said second look that you have linked to the shortlist for the TS Eliot prize, not the Forward&lt;BR/&gt;2)the head of the judging panel for the TS Eliot this year is the maverick poet Peter Porter (see for instance http://jacketmagazine.com/16/porter-peter.html ) and &lt;BR/&gt;3) on the panel is another maverick, W.N. Herbert (see http://</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/1153142612090491200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/1153142612090491200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194345000000#c1153142612090491200' title=''/><author><name>equivocal</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00408199156528969347</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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1569202724"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1100803560493133803</id><published>2007-11-06T03:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T03:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron--I feel it would be wrong and unfair to consid...</title><summary type='text'>Ron--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I feel it would be wrong and unfair to consider the restless and incalculably various Edwin Morgan to be a poet from the school of snoozitude.  A stroll through his various experiments would prove radically otherwise: his concrete poems from the 60s inspired by Sao Paolo, his &quot;computer generated&quot; poems, his colour poems, his sound poems, his science fiction poems, his translation </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/1100803560493133803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/1100803560493133803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194337500000#c1100803560493133803' title=''/><author><name>equivocal</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00408199156528969347</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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1569202724"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1479630940175319589</id><published>2007-11-06T02:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T02:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I like it when you sigh here, Ron. Ange Mlinko is ...</title><summary type='text'>I like it when you sigh here, Ron. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ange Mlinko is so goddamn smart. I want another book of her poems.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/1479630940175319589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/1479630940175319589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194335580000#c1479630940175319589' 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/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1617347097"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2282203034097241321</id><published>2007-11-06T01:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T01:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>P.S. Just to be clear, in case it wasn&#39;t from the ...</title><summary type='text'>P.S. Just to be clear, in case it wasn&#39;t from the above--&lt;EM&gt;Public Dream&lt;/EM&gt; was first released to the public on November 1st (i.e., about 96 hours ago). --S.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/2282203034097241321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/2282203034097241321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194330600000#c2282203034097241321' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6269660054620332425</id><published>2007-11-06T01:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T01:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,First, it&#39;s the T.S. Eliot Prize short-list.  ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;First, it&#39;s the &lt;EM&gt;T.S. Eliot Prize&lt;/EM&gt; short-list.  If I&#39;m not mistaken, isn&#39;t the Forward Prize a different award altogether?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Second, I&#39;d be amazed if you&#39;d actually &lt;EM&gt;read&lt;/EM&gt; the debut collection (on that short-list) which has garnered so much attention in the press, Frances Leviston&#39;s &lt;EM&gt;Public Dream&lt;/EM&gt;.  Why do I say that?  Well, I pre-ordered the book a month</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/6269660054620332425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2443165976825370951/comments/default/6269660054620332425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html?showComment=1194330060000#c6269660054620332425' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-steve-mcnamara-courtesy-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2443165976825370951' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2443165976825370951' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2007"/></entry></feed>