<?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.post320754800717415936..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/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.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>22</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7465286843606014598</id><published>2008-12-07T09:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T09:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>just found an /the  Old Tome Radio  pbs site...And...</title><summary type='text'>just found an /the  Old Tome Radio  pbs site...And just listened to 1946 issue of The Adventures of Sam Spade!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;imagine Jack Spicer   et all watching L I V E radio!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;before my time  a cpl years was the Lewis Schmelling F I G H T..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder if a broadcast of that one is on..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the &quot;poetry&quot; point?  radio bred (use of) OUR Imagination-ing...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;watching and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/7465286843606014598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/7465286843606014598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1228661220000#c7465286843606014598' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8017328755958849198</id><published>2008-12-07T04:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T04:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I go with Mark and Curtis here, a lot. I wrote thi...</title><summary type='text'>I go with Mark and Curtis here, a lot. I wrote this in an essay in Ken Harris and Jim Leftwich&#39;s _Juxta #4_ (1996), something I&#39;m still today paranoid about and almost but not quite &quot;ashamed of&quot;:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;My language is killing me,&quot; a too often referred to writer I hate to refer to here said, partially, if not mostly, because of his alcoholism, itself due to severe psychological disease, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/8017328755958849198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/8017328755958849198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1228643040000#c8017328755958849198' 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='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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-253862874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4948110945623033853</id><published>2008-12-07T03:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T03:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed, Yes, I have that Paul Mariah _Manroot_ issue, ...</title><summary type='text'>Ed, Yes, I have that Paul Mariah _Manroot_ issue, too, and every 4-5 years I re-read it.  (Paul was &quot;a regular&quot; at Russian River Writers&#39; Guild and other Series/Events readings our little Sonoma County group Jim McCrary (who first introduced me to Paul), David Bromige, Cydney Chadwick, Chris Reiner, D.A. (Doug) Powell, and a few others and I got together for in the mid-1980s).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/4948110945623033853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/4948110945623033853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1228639980000#c4948110945623033853' 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='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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-253862874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1269914044620111996</id><published>2008-07-25T10:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-25T10:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I tend to see Spicer in terms of Yeats before, and...</title><summary type='text'>I tend to see Spicer in terms of Yeats before, and Berrigan (of the Sonnets) afterwards.  Jack tended to conceive of work as sequences of linked formalities.  The same kind of &quot;social&quot; dialogue occurs in Ted&#39;s work as in Jack&#39;s.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Milieu may seem important, but we dare not place too much emphasis on the relation between specific work and the influence of &quot;friends.&quot;  Spicer was not a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/1269914044620111996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/1269914044620111996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216997280000#c1269914044620111996' 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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1960806925475123933</id><published>2008-07-25T08:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-25T08:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>just pick up a copy of thatManroot  #10  (&quot;Will fe...</title><summary type='text'>just pick up a copy of that&lt;BR/&gt;Manroot  #10  (&quot;Will feature the work of Jack Spicer (etc)&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;1973   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;subscription  4 issues for $5&lt;BR/&gt; will help Mariah &quot;keep the thing a-float&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;how about that Lorca intro to  The Collected Books of Jack Spicer..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tagett&#39;s no &quot;slouch&quot; either!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/1960806925475123933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/1960806925475123933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216987620000#c1960806925475123933' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2584047444510215233</id><published>2008-07-25T03:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-25T03:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Absolutely, Mark--I&#39;m certainly not saying that Sp...</title><summary type='text'>Absolutely, Mark--I&#39;m certainly not saying that Spicer&#39;s acquaintances should have blamed themselves for what, it seems, could only have been a situation of helplessness. Though I do recall quotes from the bio where his old friends say things like &quot;Jack&#39;s drinking didn&#39;t seem like such a problem; he drank, like we all did.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The thought I&#39;m most attached to from my previous comment is the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2584047444510215233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2584047444510215233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216969560000#c2584047444510215233' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6686374081754396536</id><published>2008-07-24T23:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T23:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It’s a fair question you raise, Andy. Pound says t...</title><summary type='text'>It’s a fair question you raise, Andy. Pound says the Times likes to “blink” at the suicide of artists and “condone” their drugs, but he may be overlooking how willing some artists are to do that for each other.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But my sense from Poet Be Like God was that Spicer was a difficult man to like–even the people who admired and liked him didn’t like him that often, if you see what I mean. And it</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/6686374081754396536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/6686374081754396536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216955220000#c6686374081754396536' title=''/><author><name>mark wallace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.avecbooks.org/images/markwallace.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8314324851869196860</id><published>2008-07-24T20:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T20:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;A Book of Magazine Verse&quot; makes it possible to th...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;A Book of Magazine Verse&quot; makes it possible to think that Spicer&#39;s &quot;outsider status&quot; was -- essentially? ultimately? -- a move inside his poetry. Certainly, the distances taken in that book are a rigorous formal principle. And a joke that is no joke: &quot;If this is dictation, it is driving / Me wild.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Alternatively, living &quot;outside&quot; was the failed project of a failed life. In this reading,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/8314324851869196860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/8314324851869196860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216944120000#c8314324851869196860' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2417359418499812757</id><published>2008-07-24T19:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T19:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s good to have Peter Gizzi as a evangelist. Pul...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s good to have Peter Gizzi as a evangelist. Pull a few strings, and you get in the pages of Harper&#39;s.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2417359418499812757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2417359418499812757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216943820000#c2417359418499812757' title=''/><author><name>Daniel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02171613044501024248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_7sPnkNOxvO8/SGmGcCgxysI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cNo_Qb4PqsE/s1600-R/gse_multipart17382.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1120613593"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-11056089478114410</id><published>2008-07-24T19:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T19:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I could say somethingbutwhy bother?what a crock of...</title><summary type='text'>I could say something&lt;BR/&gt;but&lt;BR/&gt;why bother?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;what a crock of shit!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hey ron... anyone yet doing&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hand-set letter press?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;etc..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;will send you something aftyer it is published... shpould get me a Pull-itz-her... the cute one!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/11056089478114410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/11056089478114410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216942380000#c11056089478114410' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6590056794829437941</id><published>2008-07-24T18:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T18:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;All over America the little magazines conspired/t...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;All over America the little magazines conspired/to board Jack Spicer up in a Carlifornia street rooming house,/for lack of space.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;-S. Jonas (w/o the correct line spacings)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/6590056794829437941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/6590056794829437941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216939920000#c6590056794829437941' title=''/><author><name>stvictor777</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16365783343361634726</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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-353997298"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7577057705768163646</id><published>2008-07-24T17:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T17:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, your footnote suggesting that Levertov though...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, your footnote suggesting that Levertov thought Spicer a racist alcoholic is, I think only the half of it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Per the Killian/Ellingham Spicer bio, at Levertov&#39;s Bay Area arrival party, Spicer read, with a vengeance apparently, that poem of his with the lines asserting that the female genital organs are &quot;hideous.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Spicer wrote lots of great stuff. I wondering if there&#39;s enough</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/7577057705768163646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/7577057705768163646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216935000000#c7577057705768163646' 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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5921959705090141673</id><published>2008-07-24T15:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T15:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark,I agree that this is an area that needs more ...</title><summary type='text'>Mark,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree that this is an area that needs more thought. I&#39;d give it a different twist, though: the problem, it seems to me, was as much one of a failure or disintegration of community as it was one of Spicer&#39;s individual attitude. I don&#39;t mean to subtract his own self-destructiveness from this equation, but a lot is written about &quot;Spicer and community,&quot; while little of it, even where</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/5921959705090141673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/5921959705090141673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216926960000#c5921959705090141673' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3107183179400383711</id><published>2008-07-24T14:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T14:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think that there&#39;s a lot that needs to be explor...</title><summary type='text'>I think that there&#39;s a lot that needs to be explored and discussed--and the Poet Be Like God biography does it well--regarding the interrelation between Spicer&#39;s isolationism and the problems that plagued him. After all, &quot;My vocabulary did this to me&quot; suggests that Spicer himself made a clear link between the way he thought and wrote about the world and his own messy, early death. I don&#39;t say </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/3107183179400383711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/3107183179400383711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216922820000#c3107183179400383711' title=''/><author><name>mark wallace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.avecbooks.org/images/markwallace.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2283154284561276748</id><published>2008-07-24T13:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T13:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think it&#39;s a pretty handsome cover myself... I&#39;v...</title><summary type='text'>I think it&#39;s a pretty handsome cover myself... I&#39;ve certainly seen worse.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2283154284561276748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2283154284561276748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216921440000#c2283154284561276748' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SH1Hx4itivI/AAAAAAAAAKc/lm4-XfJN05I/S220/Photo+1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8905762929198175901</id><published>2008-07-24T12:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T12:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This is going to be one of the most thrilling coup...</title><summary type='text'>This is going to be one of the most thrilling couple of publications of my lifetime. Every stage of KK &amp;amp; PG&amp;#39;s work on Spicer has been a gift.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/8905762929198175901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/8905762929198175901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216915860000#c8905762929198175901' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3549221680135496213</id><published>2008-07-24T11:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T11:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Obviously, the collection&#39;s appearance is a major ...</title><summary type='text'>Obviously, the collection&#39;s appearance is a major event in English-language poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But how, oh how, could it be, especially after the legendary cover of The Collected Books from Black Sparrow, that Spicer would have been given what has to be the cheapest looking, ugliest cover of any book of poetry produced in the past decade? Was this really the best that Wesleyan could do for such an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/3549221680135496213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/3549221680135496213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216914180000#c3549221680135496213' 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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2747134015550639755</id><published>2008-07-24T11:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T11:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The manner of Spicer&#39;s books suggests clearly that...</title><summary type='text'>The manner of Spicer&#39;s books suggests clearly that he was uncomfortable with the idea of publication itself.  Spicer deeply questioned the occasion for utterance, the conditions under which &quot;elevated speech&quot; or thought is inspired, transmitted.  Where does poetry &quot;come from&quot; and where does it belong?  How do we reconcile the radical differences among its unrelated occasions?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poets who </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2747134015550639755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/2747134015550639755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216913940000#c2747134015550639755' 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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6925665974847184490</id><published>2008-07-24T11:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T11:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I dig the humor that Spicer had till the end. &quot;My ...</title><summary type='text'>I dig the humor that Spicer had till the end. &quot;My vocabulary did this to me&quot; being Spicer&#39;s last words until this publication. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gizzi and Killian are modern day heros.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/6925665974847184490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/6925665974847184490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216912800000#c6925665974847184490' title=''/><author><name>Gary Parrish</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09446212454796875908</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://a614.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_e4aa9fa7812c0f94eb3f12932f507eed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-176615294"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3896335737623835207</id><published>2008-07-24T11:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T11:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Now who&amp;#39;s floating up &amp;amp; down the Charles?!...</title><summary type='text'>Now who&amp;#39;s floating up &amp;amp; down the Charles?!? When you die something as abstract or fluid as &amp;quot;legacy&amp;quot; gets shat upon. Oh well, it happens.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/3896335737623835207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/3896335737623835207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216912380000#c3896335737623835207' title=''/><author><name>Mary Jo Malo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18148588310769074332</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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1737322265"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4761468760856605275</id><published>2008-07-24T09:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T09:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Creeley is adamant that Drive, He Said is a misquo...</title><summary type='text'>Creeley is adamant that Drive, He Said is a misquotation, because &#39;he sd&#39; starts a new sentence, a quarrel that goes back to the Jack Nicholson film.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;John,&quot; I said, which was not his name, &quot;The darkness surrounds us, what can we do against it, or else, shall we and why not, buy a goddamn big car, drive...&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;He said, &quot;For Christ&#39;s sake, look out where your going.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The irony </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/4761468760856605275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/4761468760856605275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216905240000#c4761468760856605275' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4882970706963707067</id><published>2008-07-24T08:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T08:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>From my cubicle in marketing at The Inquirer, I kn...</title><summary type='text'>From my cubicle in marketing at The Inquirer, I know a man.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/4882970706963707067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/320754800717415936/comments/default/4882970706963707067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html?showComment=1216901340000#c4882970706963707067' title=''/><author><name>paul siegell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04358833285371296498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://phish.com/_content/viewers/thumbnails/viewer_189/20040811_6sm.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/07/city-of-boston-is-filled-with.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-320754800717415936' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/320754800717415936' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1410860524"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 24, 2008"/></entry></feed>