<?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.post5689018892630906532..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/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.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-4536445732786146100</id><published>2008-01-16T13:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T13:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Both this review and the previous one (Mac Lo...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Both this review and the previous one (Mac Low) are quite lovely and loving--pleasures to read. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As will be, I&#39;m sure, the books. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--Andy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/4536445732786146100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/4536445732786146100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200507360000#c4536445732786146100' 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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5298473436232854790</id><published>2008-01-16T09:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T09:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Denby was my model back in the early 1970&#39;s.  He w...</title><summary type='text'>Denby was my model back in the early 1970&#39;s.  He was the only one of the New York School who had the density and flair which I required.  Berkson--at his most dense--was another.  I don&#39;t think anyone told Edwin how to write--he was self-taught.  Another isolato.  Admirably original.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Even Richard Howard like Wieners!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ode on a Common Fountain!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/5298473436232854790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/5298473436232854790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200492600000#c5298473436232854790' 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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3437279507570393754</id><published>2008-01-15T15:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T15:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I mostly agree with Curtis.At the same time, I am ...</title><summary type='text'>I mostly agree with Curtis.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;At the same time, I am aware of several other (gay) poets of that era who were at least as explicit, forward, and avant-garde in their poetry (and lives) as O&#39;Hara, Ginsberg, and Duncan, who were listed only to be comparatively disparaged.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The first one that comes to mind is Harold Norse. I&#39;d put him up there as another example of how, as Curtis </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/3437279507570393754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/3437279507570393754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200427440000#c3437279507570393754' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7011219779749736936</id><published>2008-01-15T14:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T14:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/w/wieners_j....</title><summary type='text'>http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/w/wieners_j.htm&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;here is another &#39;cache&quot; of John Wieners &quot;stuff&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this is one of your best pieces, Ron...&lt;BR/&gt;thanks, Ed</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/7011219779749736936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/7011219779749736936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200425580000#c7011219779749736936' 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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6860566393320873023</id><published>2008-01-15T14:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T14:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi, Doug!Lovely tribute to and info about John Wie...</title><summary type='text'>Hi, Doug!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lovely tribute to and info about John Wieners at Tom Raworth&#39;s website:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://tomraworth.com/wieners.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dunno what happened to papers in his possession at the time of his death, but just to be clear, some of his papers have already been archived at UConn, U. of Delaware, Syracuse, Kent State, and Boston College...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/6860566393320873023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/6860566393320873023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200423780000#c6860566393320873023' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3561136563962694911</id><published>2008-01-15T13:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T13:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael Carr, Bootstrap, and everyone involved, di...</title><summary type='text'>Michael Carr, Bootstrap, and everyone involved, did a great job on this book. The release reading in Somerville was a wonderful occasion as well.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My favorite part is when Wieners confuses William Everson with Landis Everson.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/3561136563962694911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/3561136563962694911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200423240000#c3561136563962694911' title=''/><author><name>Aaron Tieger</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02678539479923664310</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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1427003792"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837546786615592117</id><published>2008-01-15T11:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T11:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I met Wieners a couple of times through Stone Soup...</title><summary type='text'>I met Wieners a couple of times through Stone Soup and Jack Powers. I tried to interview the man but at that point in his life he was taking no more interviews--&lt;BR/&gt;well at least not from me. Saw him read at the Old West Church, and did an obit about the man in &quot;Spare Change News&quot; When I knew him, he looked like a poet out of central casting, papers sprouting out of his crumpled Blazer, wild </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/7837546786615592117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/7837546786615592117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200414720000#c7837546786615592117' title=''/><author><name>Doug</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05003269684850096238</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://authorsden.com/authorsheadshot/3792.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-482365531"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5621472303817647866</id><published>2008-01-15T11:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T11:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wieners is one poet, Ron, whose work finally gives...</title><summary type='text'>Wieners is one poet, Ron, whose work finally gives the lie to the Quietist/Avant dichotomy which you insist upon.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wieners is every bit as avant garde as any of his contemporaries (either from Black Mountain, New York or West Coast contingents), but his lyrical style is thoroughly (I say this in a rather narrow sense) traditional.  His work has more in common with Traherne or Marvell, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/5621472303817647866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/5621472303817647866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200413940000#c5621472303817647866' 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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4995640747494514037</id><published>2008-01-15T11:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T11:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is one of the most incredible books of 2007!I...</title><summary type='text'>This is one of the most incredible books of 2007!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s interesting you note the pre-Stonewall language.  Samuel Delany&#39;s just written a book some of which is set inside the Stonewall Inn pre-riot, and when hearing him read from it recently the audience was SHOCKED to discover that Stonewall was a black gay bar.  It&#39;s the times we live in I guess, where rich, white fags have taken control</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/4995640747494514037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/4995640747494514037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200413100000#c4995640747494514037' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.softskull.com/coverimages/deviant_100.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1174417696593947082</id><published>2008-01-15T09:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T09:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>from an email from Joe Torra:the myth that i&#39;ve in...</title><summary type='text'>from an email from Joe Torra:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the myth that i&#39;ve in inherited from the older beantown folks is that steve jonas suggested to  wieners that they go hear olson read. jonas had already been hip to olson, williams, creeley, pound etc. through corman&#39;s radio show.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/1174417696593947082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5689018892630906532/comments/default/1174417696593947082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html?showComment=1200408720000#c1174417696593947082' 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/2008/01/book-of-prophecies-latest-posthumous.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689018892630906532' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5689018892630906532' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2008"/></entry></feed>