<?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.post6741462755699131228..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/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.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>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6767999196485167045</id><published>2008-08-07T13:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-07T13:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron, Thanks for all the links again...One int...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for all the links again...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One interesting thing about the internet is that not only does it speed things up, but slows them down;news stays news: we haven&#39;t had James Thin in Edinburgh for 6 years. That article was from 2002.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Col.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6767999196485167045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6767999196485167045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1218129600000#c6767999196485167045' title=''/><author><name>Colin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00329054918618041522</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_CxURA7J2YV0/R2sAAEOoupI/AAAAAAAAADo/39Yf2FTQz-k/S220/n61006798_33867021_2583.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1617533599"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1052516010019625810</id><published>2008-08-06T11:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-06T11:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Watten&amp;#39;s essay &amp;quot;The Expanded Object&amp;quot;...</title><summary type='text'>Watten&amp;#39;s essay &amp;quot;The Expanded Object&amp;quot; makes the following assertion:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp;quot;Spring &amp;amp; All, for Williams, was &lt;BR/&gt;the moment of its frustrated but split comprehension (recall the original &lt;BR/&gt;edition with its ovum and sperm paralleling the split between poetry &lt;BR/&gt;and prose). If we are on the way to another relation of the poet/critic &lt;BR/&gt;dyad, it may be in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/1052516010019625810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/1052516010019625810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1218035460000#c1052516010019625810' 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/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 06, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7218731884288901457</id><published>2008-08-05T01:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T01:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the links, Ron.I should say that I don&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the links, Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I should say that I don&#39;t think all of O&#39;Hara&#39;s work falls under the &quot;personist&quot; monicker; there are quite a few poems in the book where he leaves his famed breakneck pace and finessed his lyrics to get across a set of conditions an excited style won&#39;t do for, as in the terrific &quot;Second Avenue&quot;.  Above all, though, I can&#39;t think of an O&#39;Hara poem that didn&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/7218731884288901457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/7218731884288901457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217915280000#c7218731884288901457' 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='23' height='32' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/SJMSub4quHI/AAAAAAAABc4/788h-QVAwxk/S220/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4498019311835263171</id><published>2008-08-05T01:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T01:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Joy is just as authentic as pain is.  And they&#39;re ...</title><summary type='text'>Joy is just as authentic as pain is.  And they&#39;re both there in Koch.  How much of one and how much of the other, I don&#39;t care.  It&#39;s not a contest.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/4498019311835263171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/4498019311835263171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217914200000#c4498019311835263171' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SH1Hx4itivI/AAAAAAAAAKc/lm4-XfJN05I/S220/Photo+1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8491658118122918243</id><published>2008-08-04T21:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T21:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I second Andy, though I don&#39;t know fully what he m...</title><summary type='text'>I second Andy, though I don&#39;t know fully what he means about what&#39;s missing in O&#39;Hara&#39;s reception. One of my favorite remarks on O&#39;Hara is that of Charles Altieri who wrote in his book Enlarging the Temple (Bucknell UP) that -- it&#39;s the proximity to PAIN that makes O&#39;Hara&#39;s work so interesting.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That may be a key ingredient that&#39;s missing in much of late NY school writing.  Almost </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/8491658118122918243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/8491658118122918243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217898720000#c8491658118122918243' 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/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6972102257409067356</id><published>2008-08-04T20:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T20:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Nikita Khrushchev&#39;s daughter was on tv to night ta...</title><summary type='text'>Nikita Khrushchev&#39;s daughter was on tv to night talking of&lt;BR/&gt;Solzhenitsyn...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;beyond all &quot;religion&quot;  and&lt;BR/&gt;dogma&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have relatives who disappeared in the Gulag&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am here because family got out of the the Russia&lt;BR/&gt;Solzhenitsyn has spoken to.. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;just imagine what is garbage regarding China!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6972102257409067356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6972102257409067356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217897640000#c6972102257409067356' 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/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5254936560344183783</id><published>2008-08-04T14:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T14:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>From the introduction to Ashbery&#39;s Italian Selecte...</title><summary type='text'>From the introduction to Ashbery&#39;s Italian Selected: &quot;E nella natura dell&#39;avanguaria l&#39;essere un fenomeno transitorio; non e concepibile rimanere all&#39;avanguardia per tutta una carriera che copre, a oggi, oltre mezzo secolo.&quot; I wouldn&#39;t agree that he has. Barbara Guest did. But I don&#39;t think Ashbery did...nor did he appear to care to do so. But who refuses cake? Only the willowy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/5254936560344183783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/5254936560344183783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217874480000#c5254936560344183783' title=''/><author><name>William Keckler</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09492547054986452311</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_qmYPC2shDuE/R6kkeHXpVVI/AAAAAAAAA28/sGbhefeRHR4/S220/selfport6.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1372180132"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7018245816442153721</id><published>2008-08-04T13:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T13:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the links, Ron.I do hope to get to a mo...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the links, Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do hope to get to a more in-depth examination of &lt;I&gt;Total Syntax&lt;/I&gt; sometime soon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t see the need for a new O&#39;Hara &lt;I&gt;Selected&lt;/I&gt; myself; I feel like the only problem with the &lt;I&gt;Collected&lt;/I&gt; is that 99% of the poems are more or less perfect. I don&#39;t know what people are looking for. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Burke&#39;s defense--though I&#39;m pleased to see it-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/7018245816442153721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/7018245816442153721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217870220000#c7018245816442153721' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4677030661040946314</id><published>2008-08-04T13:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T13:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve,You missed it. See “what’s so interesting ab...</title><summary type='text'>Steve,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You missed it. See “what’s so interesting about being a lout?” in the July 29 links.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You can read the article &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sfpoet28-2008jul28,0,2422483.story&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The quotation above, by the way, is a line from the article.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/4677030661040946314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/4677030661040946314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217869740000#c4677030661040946314' 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/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4923390526770542244</id><published>2008-08-04T12:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T12:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Knott&#39;s sardonic art of rejection is a practi...</title><summary type='text'>Bill Knott&#39;s sardonic art of rejection is a practical lesson in the sociology of the poetry biz. That being aesthete judges and critics are often, though thankfully not always, prone to reject the unlovely poetry of unlovely poets, no matter how perfectly executed. We&#39;ve published the poetry and philosophy of actual monstrous people simply because of their talent, so why can&#39;t we praise the sad </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/4923390526770542244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/4923390526770542244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217868300000#c4923390526770542244' title=''/><author><name>Mary Jo Malo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18148588310769074332</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1737322265"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6188406640205264550</id><published>2008-08-04T11:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T11:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Solzhenitsyn was an astonishing Christian witness ...</title><summary type='text'>Solzhenitsyn was an astonishing Christian witness to the debilitation of both East and West.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s no one else who can take his place, I think.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6188406640205264550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6188406640205264550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217865240000#c6188406640205264550' 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/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3131287910602065191</id><published>2008-08-04T11:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T11:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My condolences -- attenuated as I may be here -- t...</title><summary type='text'>My condolences -- attenuated as I may be here -- to the couple who had their barn of books go up in flames.  And Ron, please know you are not the only one who fears that kind of nightmare.  Were such a thing to happen, my only solution would be to take comfort in knowing I read what I could, and that I was alive to remember the wonder that was such a collection. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And Ron, did I</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/3131287910602065191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/3131287910602065191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217864940000#c3131287910602065191' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6635967937609289581</id><published>2008-08-04T10:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T10:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For anyone thinking of taking Bernadette Mayer&#39;s w...</title><summary type='text'>For anyone thinking of taking Bernadette Mayer&#39;s workshop in upstate New York, as reported by Harret&#39;s, do it!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I visited that beautiful part of the country in July and saw Mayer read new work that was as sharp and tied into our unique culture as ever.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, Happy Birthday Obama.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6635967937609289581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/6635967937609289581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217861280000#c6635967937609289581' title=''/><author><name>Gary Parrish</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09446212454796875908</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://a614.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_e4aa9fa7812c0f94eb3f12932f507eed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-176615294"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1797734477331923206</id><published>2008-08-04T10:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-04T10:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Thanks very much for including the link to Pau...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks very much for including the link to Paul L. Martin’s review of my books. As I stated in my own &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://recently-banned-literature.blogspot.com&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/A&gt; — and a thorough perusal of Martin’s writings will bear me out — his “insights and observations from the high school classroom on literature, culture, and the life of the mind” clearly show why his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/1797734477331923206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6741462755699131228/comments/default/1797734477331923206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html?showComment=1217859180000#c1797734477331923206' title=''/><author><name>William Michaelian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05945815778010124287</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_lPFVydin30o/SD3OTSXdQKI/AAAAAAAAAC0/ChwtZ4a6fdk/S220/williammichaelian.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-by-kaplan-harris-andy-gricevich.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741462755699131228' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6741462755699131228' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1991242321"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2008"/></entry></feed>