<?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.post6864729290305352117..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/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/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>34</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4413478040833143209</id><published>2009-01-28T13:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T13:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading all of this made me depressed. Why does it...</title><summary type='text'>Reading all of this made me depressed. Why does it always have to be us and them?/&quot;poetry wars&quot;/better and worse, camp camp camp. It never ceases to remind me of my divorced parents. Depressing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/4413478040833143209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/4413478040833143209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1233167880000#c4413478040833143209' title=''/><author><name>Katy Lederer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02796877821568061249</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1613812355"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-453340518399347270</id><published>2008-11-16T13:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T13:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:That was my point.  Berry is a lovely homespun...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That was my point.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Berry is a lovely homespun philosopher.  I&#39;ve heard him read, and he&#39;s a polymath.  Farmer.   Poet.  Novelist.  Agrarian advocate.  Teacher.  And just plain charming man.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His work.  Well, is he as good as Wilbur?  As Hecht?  As Justice?  As Kinnell?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Certainly he&#39;s as good as Bly.  But a writer who began, as Berry did, writing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/453340518399347270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/453340518399347270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226859540000#c453340518399347270' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-252850826963240665</id><published>2008-11-15T19:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T19:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Berry&#39;s agrarianism gives his work a distinctive c...</title><summary type='text'>Berry&#39;s agrarianism gives his work a distinctive cast, but I doubt that it&#39;s why I turn to it. I don&#39;t actually think your description of Gunn is correct -- describing a world he participates in is a far cry from advocacy, it seems to me. Duncan was more the advocate, but far more circumspect about talking about his sex life, for example.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s the writing, Curtis, the writing is what </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/252850826963240665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/252850826963240665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226796600000#c252850826963240665' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5260839706749887290</id><published>2008-11-15T19:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T19:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If Wendell Berry and Thom Gunn were not advocates,...</title><summary type='text'>If Wendell Berry and Thom Gunn were not advocates, respectively, of environmental values, and Gay liberation, would Ron be as likely to spare them from the opprobrium reserved for those labeled as Quietists?  I think not.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is the law of exceptions to the exceptions.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5260839706749887290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5260839706749887290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226794320000#c5260839706749887290' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7796099506156701830</id><published>2008-11-14T07:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T07:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What would one be without the other you know.Somet...</title><summary type='text'>What would one be without the other you know.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sometimes, people forget that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/7796099506156701830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/7796099506156701830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226664240000#c7796099506156701830' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6359500940443078270</id><published>2008-11-12T22:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T22:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>curtis, you got it right on the soft spot with you...</title><summary type='text'>curtis, you got it right on the soft spot with your last post...so inconsistency rules with the rolling eye and the quiet snicker.&lt;BR/&gt;who gives a crap anyhow.  i like to read around the labels and decide for myself.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6359500940443078270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6359500940443078270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226547480000#c6359500940443078270' title=''/><author><name>Louise</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00134209058300460374</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1993933462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1837634590900079928</id><published>2008-11-12T21:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T21:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Speaking of hyperbole, here&#39;s Ron Silliman on 9/30...</title><summary type='text'>Speaking of hyperbole, here&#39;s Ron Silliman on 9/30/08:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Jeff Hilson’s new anthology, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, is flat out the best book of its kind I have ever seen. It is easily – too easily, alas – the finest collection of contemporary sonnets ever put together.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/1837634590900079928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/1837634590900079928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226542680000#c1837634590900079928' title=''/><author><name>chippens</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319797537274875566</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-197089391"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8196265729039413097</id><published>2008-11-12T11:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T11:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Henry Gould is quite right.  Also, there&#39;s almost ...</title><summary type='text'>Henry Gould is quite right.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, there&#39;s almost the cult of maladaptation prevalent among the &quot;confessionalists&quot;--Lowell, Berryman, Sexton, Plath--not to speak of others outside that immediate grouping, such as Schuyler, Spicer, Wieners, and a host of others.  It&#39;s pretty clear that Eliot had a mental breakdown, Pound was dotty most of his life, so it doesn&#39;t seem fruitful to expect </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/8196265729039413097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/8196265729039413097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226506440000#c8196265729039413097' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6077144195550078155</id><published>2008-11-12T08:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T08:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I fail to see much difference between the ranking ...</title><summary type='text'>I fail to see much difference between the ranking system of Ron and the commentators here, and the &amp;quot;best of&amp;quot; type comments in the review of the Lowell/Bishop volume.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&amp;#39;s no different from &amp;quot;my sports faves&amp;quot; ranking systems.  It&amp;#39;s a pecking order.  &amp;amp; it inevitably substitutes for a nuanced evaluation of an individual poet&amp;#39;s work, or the work of a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6077144195550078155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6077144195550078155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226496420000#c6077144195550078155' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8577070915847857717</id><published>2008-11-11T23:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T23:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Luther (or whomever is using this all-purpose pseu...</title><summary type='text'>Luther (or whomever is using this all-purpose pseudonym tonight),&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think the answer is easily. I would argue that at least one quarter and maybe one half of the authors in &lt;I&gt;The New American Poetry&lt;/I&gt; are more important than Lowell. Who&amp;#39;s the closest to his level in that book? Probably my old teacher, Brother Antoninus. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;RD&amp;#39;s influence has waned largely to the lack of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/8577070915847857717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/8577070915847857717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226464740000#c8577070915847857717' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4775202538847945099</id><published>2008-11-11T21:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T21:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Duncan really any more important than Lowell?  ...</title><summary type='text'>Is Duncan really any more important than Lowell?  I mean, Duncan&#39;s work either reads like a pastiche of Stein or a pastiche of Pound.  He may have been brave in his choice of influence, but there&#39;s no sign in his poetry that he went beyond their influence.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lowell at least wrote *History*, in which he manages to digest his early metaphysical influence into his late, biographically </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/4775202538847945099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/4775202538847945099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226456280000#c4775202538847945099' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3048753099235559113</id><published>2008-11-11T19:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T19:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>great post - i remember about 12 months ago some p...</title><summary type='text'>great post - i remember about 12 months ago some paper called bishop the artist of the century? the last person i heard called that was duchamp which emphasises the different realities going on as much as anything. bishop doesnt excite me - but she doesnt bore me either - i can read her - more (perhaps too) easily than moore - theres something sustained &amp;amp; sane about her that i prefer to say, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/3048753099235559113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/3048753099235559113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226448960000#c3048753099235559113' title=''/><author><name>michaelf</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03896092358881060164</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-107943565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3974314702469151131</id><published>2008-11-11T18:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T18:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That means &quot;tourist kisses&quot; you know, very John We...</title><summary type='text'>That means &quot;tourist kisses&quot; you know, very John Weiners,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/3974314702469151131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/3974314702469151131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226445000000#c3974314702469151131' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1665806041083493418</id><published>2008-11-11T17:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T17:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That was supposed to be the tourist busses, I thin...</title><summary type='text'>That was supposed to be the tourist busses, I think, rolling by the Boston Aquarium.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/1665806041083493418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/1665806041083493418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226440860000#c1665806041083493418' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3786180730494256546</id><published>2008-11-11T15:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T15:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;A savage servility / slides by on grease.&quot; A not ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;A savage servility / slides by on grease.&quot; A not entirely kitschy tag for the traditional reviewer&#39;s trade.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/3786180730494256546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/3786180730494256546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226435580000#c3786180730494256546' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1285576697940820650</id><published>2008-11-11T15:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T15:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>gawker linked</title><summary type='text'>gawker linked</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/1285576697940820650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/1285576697940820650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226434920000#c1285576697940820650' title=''/><author><name>ryan manning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12388299572002030189</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1308019349"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6908124523896732608</id><published>2008-11-11T14:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T14:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>With respect to reviewing, I&#39;ve frequently found m...</title><summary type='text'>With respect to reviewing, I&#39;ve frequently found myself liking a poet for all the wrong reasons, and then I have to figure out how to defend my preference without creating huge cracks in my &quot;official&quot; agenda.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree with chippens.  This is a real problem.  How can you like Paul Metcalf, for instance, and also like Alexander Theroux?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is what, for me, gives the lie to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6908124523896732608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6908124523896732608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226433360000#c6908124523896732608' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9090735416501706447</id><published>2008-11-11T14:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T14:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel: I couldn&amp;#39;t agree more. I had a William...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel: I couldn&amp;#39;t agree more. I had a Williams seminar at Berkeley from Breslin when I was an undergraduate. Though Williams, even then, was considered ultra-ultra far-out in the seedy English Department in those days, it did seem as if he had been &amp;quot;accepted&amp;quot; into the official canon, albeit for reasons having more to do with poems like &amp;quot;The Yachts&amp;quot; than with anything, for</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/9090735416501706447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/9090735416501706447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226432520000#c9090735416501706447' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5356900044920748754</id><published>2008-11-11T14:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T14:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree that the hyperbole in those reviews is out...</title><summary type='text'>I agree that the hyperbole in those reviews is outrageous to the cartoonish level, but it&#39;s a symptom of the poetry review business where aesthetic bias is not the only concern reviewers have.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ever notice how movie reviews are really the only place nowadays to get honest and unabashed negative or positive reviews if the movies are so deserving? That&#39;s probably because being a movie </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5356900044920748754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5356900044920748754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226431020000#c5356900044920748754' title=''/><author><name>chippens</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319797537274875566</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_o38OzkCcOW4/SCUOin8F2AI/AAAAAAAAAAU/einfVZlA17Q/S220/DSC_0041.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-197089391"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6731601298824437637</id><published>2008-11-11T13:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T13:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, Ron, a solid piece, although I admit I raised...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, Ron, a solid piece, although I admit I raised my eyebrows at the mention of Baraka and Dorn being &quot;left politically&quot; but &quot;right aesthetically&quot; --Levertov yes, those two, not a chance.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I remember, the day Lowell died, having a beer with Edward at the University of Colorado; I said some smartass thing about there being one less confessional poet to have to deal with, and he pretty </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6731601298824437637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/6731601298824437637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226428500000#c6731601298824437637' title=''/><author><name>Joe Safdie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10146108321237585329</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1160934350"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8186780457403590994</id><published>2008-11-11T13:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T13:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,A good critique of the critics, it seems.Longe...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A good critique of the critics, it seems.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Longenbach, alas, for a long time has been a voice for Quietude poetry--especially disappointing when one considers the fact that Longenbach often claims he is trying to do work that bridges divides in American poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyone interested in reading a bit more on this (spoiler alert: shameless self-promotion ahead) might </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/8186780457403590994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/8186780457403590994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226427060000#c8186780457403590994' title=''/><author><name>Michael Theune</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08121953357805380434</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-971320363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5364710583378942679</id><published>2008-11-11T13:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T13:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The online Yale list doesn&amp;#39;t surprise me. And ...</title><summary type='text'>The online Yale list doesn&amp;#39;t surprise me. And the connection of Eliot, Lowell &amp;amp; Bishop to Harvard seems significant. Do you think the seat of quietude rests in the ivy league? And  therefore the desperation to hold onto that narrow view of modern poetry is not very different than the way Harvard &amp;amp; Yale determine who will hold the power (&amp;amp; therefore money)? Is this an overly simple</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5364710583378942679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5364710583378942679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226426760000#c5364710583378942679' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7600519595076626962</id><published>2008-11-11T12:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T12:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah, yes, once upon a time The New Yorker, The Nati...</title><summary type='text'>Ah, yes, once upon a time The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry Magazine, AWP Writer&#39;s Chronicle, the Academy of American Poets, The Best American Poetry annuals, the NYT Book Review, the Norton, MFA programs, and Award Committees everywhere, etc, were the evil ramparts of Official Verse Culture... &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now that all of these are perfectly welcoming of avant-type verse (and that avant-type poets</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/7600519595076626962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/7600519595076626962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226426340000#c7600519595076626962' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5080601977134882161</id><published>2008-11-11T11:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T11:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:  As usual you open far too many topics to add...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:  As usual you open far too many topics to address in a reasonable space.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your campaign against Lowell begins to look like a vendetta, as if by unseating him, you could cut the head off the other side.  Who ever said Lowell was the best post-War poet, anyway?  He&#39;s often mentioned, but his career didn&#39;t unroll in a pat, predictable way, and in any case he wasn&#39;t by any means his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5080601977134882161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/5080601977134882161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226421660000#c5080601977134882161' 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/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4156724744543443945</id><published>2008-11-11T11:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T11:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s astonishing how similar the new music and poe...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s astonishing how similar the new music and poetry worlds are. In music, too, there is a similar monopolization of institutional life by forces of the status quo. At least, perhaps, in music, the school of quietude identifies iteself rather forthrightly, as the owners and inhabitants of conservatories.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/4156724744543443945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6864729290305352117/comments/default/4156724744543443945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html?showComment=1226421420000#c4156724744543443945' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Wolf</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://home.snafu.de/djwolf/cornetto.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/absolute-number-of-reviews-that-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6864729290305352117' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6864729290305352117' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1529448591"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 11, 2008"/></entry></feed>