<?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.post6148270101200446908..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/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>44</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5474581221865089088</id><published>2008-02-10T13:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-10T13:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with your statement that collected poems s...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with your statement that collected poems serve a different &quot;social function&quot; than pocket volumes:  personally, I like collected poems because they allow me to delve more deeply into the minds of poets I already love, the way I like to converse with my friends not because I think they are terribly witty all the time but because I love them.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, I disagree with your conclusion</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5474581221865089088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5474581221865089088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1202669880000#c5474581221865089088' title=''/><author><name>Jenna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02275030127338230298</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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-745060649"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7137249192159644961</id><published>2007-10-31T23:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T23:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As nearly as I can tell, several of the Modernists...</title><summary type='text'>As nearly as I can tell, several of the Modernists didn&#39;t have it particularly hard.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Stevens was an insurance executive, Williams was a physician, Stein was independently wealthy, and a number of others made Faustian bargains with academia.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It isn&#39;t true that financial security makes you complacent, or indolent.  One can be obsessed and driven by anxieties no matter how many</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/7137249192159644961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/7137249192159644961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193886360000#c7137249192159644961' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6794660975488731279</id><published>2007-10-31T13:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T13:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Empathy is a necessary precondition of liking some...</title><summary type='text'>Empathy is a necessary precondition of liking someone&#39;s poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you hate them on account of their being SoQ, naturally their poetry is unreadable.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you hate communists, it&#39;s very hard to take their poetry seriously.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What we&#39;re often finding when someone&#39;s work is waved away is that there is a predetermined turning away based on empathy for such and such a poet as a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/6794660975488731279'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/6794660975488731279'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193853180000#c6794660975488731279' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 31, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6568208348723335247</id><published>2007-10-30T21:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-30T21:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks, Mark.  I think we&#39;re on the same page.Yes,...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks, Mark.  I think we&#39;re on the same page.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yes, Ron is aggressively critical, even censorious.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would recommend that you read a few of the more conservative critics, to get a flavor of what I&#39;m referring to.  Vendler.  Logan.  And if you really want some amunition, check out Contemporary Poetry Review and read a little of Dr. James Rother&#39;s animadversions.  Or Dana Gioia.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/6568208348723335247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/6568208348723335247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193793540000#c6568208348723335247' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1834789822298650113</id><published>2007-10-30T09:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-30T09:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh my goodness, Mark Granier has been courteous.  ...</title><summary type='text'>Oh my goodness, Mark Granier has been courteous.  This is a very subversive strategy in a comment box and I found myself very respectful of his opinions as a result.  What a joy to find that someone still has manners.  I will have to find mine in the trunk they&#39;ve been in since Gore invented the internet.  Thanks for reminding us of this possibility, Mark Granier.  To actually think of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1834789822298650113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1834789822298650113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193752140000#c1834789822298650113' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8903270214992322226</id><published>2007-10-30T08:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-30T08:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To respond to Curtis:&quot;I have to beg your pardon, h...</title><summary type='text'>To respond to Curtis:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I have to beg your pardon, here. I am not the passionate categorizer you would have me be. That title belongs to Ron, if anyone -- with whom, if you ever were paying attention, I constantly disagree with here.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do occasionally pay attention, and I know you have your disagreements with Ron. I appreciate your attempt to clarify things. The wrangling </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8903270214992322226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8903270214992322226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193746140000#c8903270214992322226' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6305298729686126622</id><published>2007-10-30T01:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-30T01:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hard and soft have no clear meaning in this argume...</title><summary type='text'>Hard and soft have no clear meaning in this argument.  I say we drop this dumb dichotomy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/6305298729686126622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/6305298729686126622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193722920000#c6305298729686126622' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5827802721786901800</id><published>2007-10-29T23:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T23:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Johannes, My advertising metaphor was clearly to i...</title><summary type='text'>Johannes, My advertising metaphor was clearly to illustrate someone using an undeniably appealing technique for ends contrary to those of the person or persons the technique’s lifted from.  Why don’t you blame World War II on the Surrealists, since they were influenced by World War I?  Why stop at saying they are complicit with the intent of the corporate media because they made collages? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5827802721786901800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5827802721786901800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193716680000#c5827802721786901800' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8122867499418877511</id><published>2007-10-29T13:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T13:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s not name-calling, but it is expressing a valu...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s not name-calling, but it is expressing a value judgment. On the other hand, if you honestly see &quot;soft&quot; as a gendered term, I can&#39;t argue. You&#39;re a smart guy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I haven&#39;t read Simic in a long time, but I have heard him read, and I enjoyed it (in a non-pejorative sense.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not a scholar of this movement by a long-shot, but my father was an ad man. The &quot;surrealism&quot; one sees in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8122867499418877511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8122867499418877511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193678340000#c8122867499418877511' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2813801148058364973</id><published>2007-10-29T13:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T13:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon, Curtis etc,You are certainly right that the...</title><summary type='text'>Simon, Curtis etc,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You are certainly right that there is a different aim behind many of these contemporary Surrealist-influenced writers than the Surrealism of the 1920s - they don’t have the sweeping political goals of Breton &amp; Co. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;While that may be lamentable, calling them &quot;soft&quot; is part of a reductive rhetoric that I don&#39;t agree with - most certainly gendered - going back to</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2813801148058364973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2813801148058364973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193677380000#c2813801148058364973' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3238188298833513761</id><published>2007-10-29T01:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-29T01:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark:&quot;&#39;There is a kind...&#39; Why of course there is;...</title><summary type='text'>Mark:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;&#39;There is a kind...&#39; Why of course there is; there might even be a kind of in-between surrealism too, the SoSSS (School of Somewhat Squishy Surrealism). And you and the good Curtis and Ron (and all the other manic categorisers, the makers of pigeon-holes in clouds) are just the people to distinguish the hard from the soft, the SoQ from the &quot;innovative&#39;, the provocative and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/3238188298833513761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/3238188298833513761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193634060000#c3238188298833513761' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2036723906163022491</id><published>2007-10-28T23:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-28T23:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Sometimes I deplore, have deplored, the infini...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sometimes I deplore, have deplored, the infinitely intoxicating temptation to divide writing into SofQ and avant-po. It seems at times tediously close to the same destructive process that religious groups, nations, races, and other man-made factions engage in, some say instinctually and some say unwisely, which results in the kinds of messes our world politic is mired in today.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2036723906163022491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2036723906163022491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193628840000#c2036723906163022491' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-253862874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8324393610596257416</id><published>2007-10-28T22:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-28T22:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;There are also aliens (you didn&#39;t think we were t...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;There are also aliens (you didn&#39;t think we were the only intelligent beings in the Universe, did you?)&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it unlikely that we are the only beings. As for intelligence... perhaps elsewhere. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your Heaven might be fun for awhile, though enduring it for Eternity... I dunno. The props might begin to topple. It seems like a cross between Mark Twain&#39;s Letters From The Earth and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8324393610596257416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8324393610596257416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193623920000#c8324393610596257416' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1934798855061500438</id><published>2007-10-28T21:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-28T21:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You will be rewarded amply in the Heaven of Footno...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;You will be rewarded amply in the Heaven of Footnotes.&lt;/I&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Not really. I actually imagine heaven to be somewhat like an infinite Cambridge College combination room. There is port, and salt-and-vinegar chips, and all the great thinkers of the past are there milling around. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You never get drunk; things just sort of oscillate between clarity and a mild tipsyness (especially when</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1934798855061500438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1934798855061500438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193620620000#c1934798855061500438' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5763185317855011399</id><published>2007-10-28T11:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-28T11:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon:  You&#39;re correct.  Carson isn&#39;t really guilt...</title><summary type='text'>Simon:  You&#39;re correct.  Carson isn&#39;t really guilty of that.  I do find it monotonously deadpan, however, especially when she reads.  Streams of absurdity and non sequiturs.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5763185317855011399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5763185317855011399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193584920000#c5763185317855011399' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4286922624032810584</id><published>2007-10-28T11:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-28T11:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;There is a kind of surrealism that doesn&#39;t provok...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;There is a kind of surrealism that doesn&#39;t provoke or unsettle but only entertains.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;There is a kind...&quot; Why of course there is; there might even be a kind of in-between surrealism too, the SoSSS (School of Somewhat Squishy Surrealism). And you and the good Curtis and Ron (and all the other manic categorisers, the makers of pigeon-holes in clouds) are just the people to distinguish the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/4286922624032810584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/4286922624032810584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193584800000#c4286922624032810584' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2249390158767998085</id><published>2007-10-27T14:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-27T14:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To a certain extent, the bouncing back and forth o...</title><summary type='text'>To a certain extent, the bouncing back and forth of terms &quot;soft&quot; and &quot;hard&quot; surrealist makes a lot of sense, and I don&#39;t see anything &quot;macho&quot; about it (especially not in the implied gender-loaded sense.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I mean, this comes down to Ron&#39;s use of the phrase &quot;Quietude.&quot; There is a kind of surrealism that doesn&#39;t provoke or unsettle but only entertains; Ian&#39;s connection of it to advertising </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2249390158767998085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2249390158767998085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193508060000#c2249390158767998085' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1899937647364822787</id><published>2007-10-26T11:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T11:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark, John Ashbery calls himself a ‘cafeteria Surr...</title><summary type='text'>Mark, John Ashbery calls himself a ‘cafeteria Surrealist,’ a phrase that indicates, by Ashbery’s illustrative statements, an understanding of ‘soft Surrealism’ similar to Curtis’.  Ashbery’s respect for Surrealism is greater that Curtis’.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The two Surrealist manifestos make it very clear what the difference between Surrealism and soft Surrealism is.  “Don’t lecture me on the French </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1899937647364822787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1899937647364822787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193414340000#c1899937647364822787' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2440313779167419211</id><published>2007-10-26T11:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T11:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Kayak would be a good illustration of my p...</title><summary type='text'>I think Kayak would be a good illustration of my point about the energy of the doctrine.  Hitchcock seemed to want to mount a minor campaign to revitalize it through his magazine and pamphlets.  (Ironically, Simic was the author of two of these.)  The distinction I&#39;m making may be too nice for the  purposes of this discussion.  Of course, nearly everyone is &quot;influenced&quot; by Surrealism, and there </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2440313779167419211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/2440313779167419211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193412900000#c2440313779167419211' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4479839347514661354</id><published>2007-10-25T17:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T17:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I see at least one major hit in American s...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I see at least one major hit in American surrealism -- Brautigan.  Trout Fishing has sold millions of copies.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s probably more difficult to find American poetry or prose poetry that hasn&#39;t been steeped in surrealism to some degree. Even Billy Collins is there to a very strong degree.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It tends to be used for its special effects in American literature rather than for any</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/4479839347514661354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/4479839347514661354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193349120000#c4479839347514661354' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4535719842760157937</id><published>2007-10-25T17:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T17:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>more Creeley/Simic commentary here: http://thisrec...</title><summary type='text'>more Creeley/Simic commentary here: &lt;BR/&gt;http://thisrecording.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/in-which-we-shall-personally-tar-and-feather-you-and-run-you-out-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven-on-a-rail/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/4535719842760157937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/4535719842760157937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193348460000#c4535719842760157937' title=''/><author><name>will hubbard</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02706698581258287053</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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-342342482"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5251914442467911515</id><published>2007-10-25T17:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T17:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am glad to see that others have noticed how infa...</title><summary type='text'>I am glad to see that others have noticed how infantile this macho rhetoric of &#39;hard&#39; and &#39;soft&#39; (&#39;sanitized&#39;) surrealism is, how &#39;posturing&#39;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5251914442467911515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/5251914442467911515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193347080000#c5251914442467911515' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1115420957177501404</id><published>2007-10-25T12:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T12:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis and others, Neo-Surrealism; or, The Sun at ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis and others, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;Neo-Surrealism; or, The Sun at Night&lt;/I&gt;, by Andrew Joron, is an extremely effective elucidation of the tradition in American poetry 1966 - 1999.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1115420957177501404'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/1115420957177501404'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193329500000#c1115420957177501404' 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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8073615467272056466</id><published>2007-10-25T11:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T11:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,I&#39;m quite familiar with the history of Surr...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m quite familiar with the history of Surrealism in France and in this and other countries. What I wanted to call attention to is how silly I think this &quot;hard&quot; vs &quot;soft&quot; rhetoric is.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t think Surrealism is &quot;played out.&quot; Many - maybe most - of the most interesting books of the past few years display quite a bit of debt to Surrealism - Ariana Reines&#39; The Cow, Drew </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8073615467272056466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/8073615467272056466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193324400000#c8073615467272056466' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</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/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7766403751950130562</id><published>2007-10-25T09:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T09:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It must have been a very dark day in the School of...</title><summary type='text'>It must have been a very dark day in the School of Quietude/Post-avant Wars for Reality when the Sun &amp; Moon Press publication of Arkadii Dragomoschenko&#39;s Xenia (translated by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova) was financially supported by not only Charles Bernstein, Leslie Scalapino, Barbara Guest, Gilbert Sorrentino, John Taggart, Fiona Templeton, but also Charles Simic.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/7766403751950130562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6148270101200446908/comments/default/7766403751950130562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html?showComment=1193320260000#c7766403751950130562' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-recent-years-different-poets.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6148270101200446908' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6148270101200446908' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry></feed>