<?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.post4015477833580510339..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/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.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>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-302276133121927068</id><published>2010-04-19T20:33:38.108-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T20:33:38.108-04:00</updated><title type='text'>An error with my previous comment; I meant to refe...</title><summary type='text'>An error with my previous comment; I meant to refer to Stephen Burt&amp;#39;s NY Times review of &amp;quot;Next&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;Versed&amp;quot;. He has not reviewed the Prize winning book, that I&amp;#39;m aware of. My apologies.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/302276133121927068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/302276133121927068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271723618108#c302276133121927068' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8893498833725842735</id><published>2010-04-18T10:44:03.063-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T10:44:03.063-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the link!</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the link!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/8893498833725842735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/8893498833725842735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271601843063#c8893498833725842735' title=''/><author><name>Lu @ Regular Rumination</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18027804132268043518</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VX2tZ4jeQqY/Sv9PO6DFyaI/AAAAAAAAAGI/8je4EM3-Zgc/S220/leslie+in+luray+2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1625283829"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8302475641657971641</id><published>2010-04-17T23:03:53.098-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T23:03:53.098-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hi ron,&#xa;&#xa;it was definitely a great news. couple of...</title><summary type='text'>hi ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it was definitely a great news. couple of months ago i did a translation in persian as well:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://sinafazelpourtranslations.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/8302475641657971641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/8302475641657971641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271559833098#c8302475641657971641' title=''/><author><name>Sina Fazelpour</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09125598336403786436</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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1112965630"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 17, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4305619068027938436</id><published>2010-04-17T01:39:08.815-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-17T01:39:08.815-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I became aware of Rae&amp;#39;s (and Ron&amp;#39;s) work i...</title><summary type='text'>I became aware of Rae&amp;#39;s (and Ron&amp;#39;s) work in the Seventies while an undergraduate literature student at UCSD, and whatever value or lack of it one thinks the Pulitzer Prize has in terms of distinguishing the best work from the passably acceptal, I am glad that someone I know (if only slightly) has grabbed A Big Prize. It means not only that she will have here tightly constructed poems read</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/4305619068027938436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/4305619068027938436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271482748815#c4305619068027938436' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 17, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7746656951746382954</id><published>2010-04-16T17:33:00.627-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T17:33:00.627-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stretch, p. 24, has a pretty weird last line. I wo...</title><summary type='text'>Stretch, p. 24, has a pretty weird last line. I wonder if that one shouldn&amp;#39;t be the one that is reproduced in its entirety in the nation&amp;#39;s newspapers as evidence of her genius.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/7746656951746382954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/7746656951746382954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271453580627#c7746656951746382954' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4460076646061771307</id><published>2010-04-16T17:30:24.717-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T17:30:24.717-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the &amp;quot;scumble&amp;quot; poem.  I didn&amp;#...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the &amp;quot;scumble&amp;quot; poem.  I didn&amp;#39;t know the word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scumble -- to make (as color or a painting) less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque of semi-opaque color 2.  to apply a color in this manner 3. to soften the lines or colors of a drawing by rubbing lightly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not likely to be a poem on everyone&amp;#39;s lips, as America the Beautiful, or the Battle</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/4460076646061771307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/4460076646061771307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271453424717#c4460076646061771307' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1619354326585933785</id><published>2010-04-16T16:53:12.091-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T16:53:12.091-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I see she has a big copy of Ron&amp;#39;s The Alphabet...</title><summary type='text'>I see she has a big copy of Ron&amp;#39;s The Alphabet on her shelf in that picture!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/1619354326585933785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/1619354326585933785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271451192091#c1619354326585933785' title=''/><author><name>Tom King</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B33zvHDC_m4/SUcFrpLUEeI/AAAAAAAAAAM/jrXdJmzJcfs/S220/Tom+playing+cornet+08.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1642046747"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7695983727921606928</id><published>2010-04-16T15:33:28.291-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T15:33:28.291-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Adam&amp;#39;s and Ron&amp;#39;s points about the Pulitzer...</title><summary type='text'>Adam&amp;#39;s and Ron&amp;#39;s points about the Pulitzer are useful to read. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pulitzer opens doors, as I think Gary Snyder said, when asked recently to describe the impact of winning the Pulitzer (he did  1975).  Armantrout will have opportunities for her poetry to be heard or read by many that otherwise would not have come to it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The potential that more people will hear or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/7695983727921606928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/7695983727921606928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271446408291#c7695983727921606928' 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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-519828707976711866</id><published>2010-04-16T15:05:49.517-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T15:05:49.517-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby Olson, your question asking for a Rae Armant...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;Kirby Olson, your question asking for a Rae Armantrout poem that &amp;quot;normal people could understand&amp;quot; gives me cause to set out a few quotations that address the values underlying that request.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harry Crosby:  &amp;quot;Isn&amp;#39;t it enough that a book or painting awake response rather than meaning?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Karl Stockhausen: &amp;quot; . . . the most </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/519828707976711866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/519828707976711866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271444749517#c519828707976711866' 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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3399748646710453979</id><published>2010-04-16T14:25:06.276-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T14:25:06.276-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dmitri contacts All Things Considered from Smolens...</title><summary type='text'>Dmitri contacts All Things Considered from Smolensk: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m tired of Rasputin and his pathetic acts of redemption. Just tell me about the shoe polish you can get in a can.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sergei, a listener from Perm, asks: &amp;quot;What about our national poets?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;He went, and arrainged other limbs, And other draperies. Void of dreams, I lie in mortal lethargy.&amp;quot; That&amp;#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/3399748646710453979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/3399748646710453979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271442306276#c3399748646710453979' 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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4297937358060649706</id><published>2010-04-16T13:07:59.171-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T13:07:59.171-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Does she have a popular poem that everyone likes a...</title><summary type='text'>Does she have a popular poem that everyone likes and that normal people could understand?  Something like Frost&amp;#39;s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, or Corso&amp;#39;s poem Marriage, or Julia Ward Howe&amp;#39;s Battle Hymn, or America the Beautiful, by I forget her name?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If not, does she have one poem that is widely regarded as her best one?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/4297937358060649706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/4297937358060649706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271437679171#c4297937358060649706' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-369414151595643554</id><published>2010-04-16T13:00:11.991-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T13:00:11.991-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Adam,&#xa;&#xa;Superb point. What I wrote after Keith Wald...</title><summary type='text'>Adam,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Superb point. &lt;a href=&quot;http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/she-was-youngest-winner-ever-of.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;What I wrote&lt;/a&gt; after Keith Waldrop won the National Book Award applies here as well, and for virtually the same reasons.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/369414151595643554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/369414151595643554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271437211991#c369414151595643554' 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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7714121992226983962</id><published>2010-04-16T11:27:56.075-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T11:27:56.075-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have a question.&#xa;&#xa;It seems like this blog is cel...</title><summary type='text'>I have a question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems like this blog is celebrating Rae&amp;#39;s win, as some indication that the Pulitzer, as a conveyor of validation, having validated Rae in a public space, has done a positive service for post-avant / hybrid / &amp;quot;elliptical&amp;quot; poetry, too often shielded from publicity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this blog has already proclaimed the Pulitzer to be a valueless award.&lt;br</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/7714121992226983962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/7714121992226983962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271431676075#c7714121992226983962' title=''/><author><name>Adam Katz</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15697999742501448021</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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591150966"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5346999464009199619</id><published>2010-04-16T09:47:20.244-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T09:47:20.244-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The sense of vindication goes deep.&#xa;&#xa;I remember th...</title><summary type='text'>The sense of vindication goes deep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember thinking when Rae&amp;#39;s first book came out, that she already knew what she wanted to do, that she seemed incapable of taking a wrong step.  It was careful work, but with a fine intuitive sense.  She would turn phrases and assumptions back upon themselves, revealing hypocrisies and unsuspected revelations.  Her vision hasn&amp;#39;t wavered.&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/5346999464009199619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/5346999464009199619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271425640244#c5346999464009199619' 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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-545520918436723234</id><published>2010-04-16T00:23:22.645-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T00:23:22.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Et tu, NPR?&#xa;&#xa;But really it&amp;#39;s no surprise at al...</title><summary type='text'>Et tu, NPR?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But really it&amp;#39;s no surprise at all. What else but dismissive smarminess  could be expected from the public radio wavelength that&amp;#39;s inflicted Garrison Keillor (and his views of poetry) on us all for way too long.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/545520918436723234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4015477833580510339/comments/default/545520918436723234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html?showComment=1271391802645#c545520918436723234' 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/2010/04/rae-armantrout-california-poet-national.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4015477833580510339' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4015477833580510339' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 16, 2010"/></entry></feed>