<?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.post7445775992818011248..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/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.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>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7657333833555836664</id><published>2008-12-22T08:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T08:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i CAN&#39;T believe she is the choice...Venus Hottento...</title><summary type='text'>i CAN&#39;T believe she is the choice...Venus Hottentot? This seems to be a terrible terrible joke in light of all of the strange and poor comparisons to the soon first lady...ughhh!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/7657333833555836664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/7657333833555836664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229952660000#c7657333833555836664' title=''/><author><name>DUSIE</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06216362537300575353</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='19' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/perdita2003/withers.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1461945772"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3007532988352888258</id><published>2008-12-21T21:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T21:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The shallow depths of Ms. Alexander&#39;s irony are in...</title><summary type='text'>The shallow depths of Ms. Alexander&#39;s irony are insufficient to cover the cliches and platitudes which bulge above the stream of her percolating line.  She&#39;s probably appropriate for Obama, but as the avatar of a new generation&#39;s commitment to, or aspiration towards, higher standards of conduct and expression, she falls short.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Can Presidents comprehend good poetry?  In their rush </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/3007532988352888258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/3007532988352888258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229911260000#c3007532988352888258' 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/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5146058107503612824</id><published>2008-12-21T14:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-21T14:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry the pnoise link isn&#39;t working Ron. I guess A...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry the pnoise link isn&#39;t working Ron. I guess Angela removed it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hope you are feeling better.&lt;BR/&gt;lq</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/5146058107503612824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/5146058107503612824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229889360000#c5146058107503612824' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9172553736647881256</id><published>2008-12-20T15:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-20T15:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes,  The New Yorker seemed not to have its mirror...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, &lt;I&gt; The New Yorker&lt;/I&gt; seemed not to have its mirror working very clearly when they published that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/9172553736647881256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/9172553736647881256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229805240000#c9172553736647881256' 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/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2293424730902911513</id><published>2008-12-20T14:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-20T14:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As a premiere forum for modern American poetry, at...</title><summary type='text'>As a premiere forum for modern American poetry, at least to the great unread, poetry-wise, whom the &lt;I&gt;New Yorker&lt;/I&gt; seems to be simultaneously defending and condemning, it is exceeding strange to find them lamenting &quot;a specificity that’s personal and unsuggestive, with moves toward the general that are self-consciously academic&quot; in poetry when they themselves, um, don&#39;t seem to be doing very </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/2293424730902911513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/2293424730902911513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229800980000#c2293424730902911513' title=''/><author><name>Issa&#39;s Untidy Hut</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698</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/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-926068283"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 20, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-479452562716634621</id><published>2008-12-19T22:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T22:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>my list is still short but i added one .. michael ...</title><summary type='text'>my list is still short but i added one .. michael f</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/479452562716634621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/479452562716634621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229745060000#c479452562716634621' 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/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-107943565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9026480048772405821</id><published>2008-12-19T10:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T10:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, that Duncan image is a tease! You can click o...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, that Duncan image is a tease! You can click on it to get a better resolution, but even then only some of the words are legible. That looks like a nice set up with the wood floors and a glass of water. I imagine it to be on a screened porch near a beach. But I really just want to be able to read the damned thing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I see you link to the &quot;new&quot; Pynchon book. Is it just my imagination, or</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/9026480048772405821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/9026480048772405821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229699880000#c9026480048772405821' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Dillon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175884937968045605</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/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1634681312"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8428020434091505782</id><published>2008-12-19T03:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T03:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alexander is interesting. The poems on her site ar...</title><summary type='text'>Alexander is interesting. The poems on her site are careful, judicious. Syllables are counted, sounds matched; diction is discreetly elevated, without flourish or eccentricity; the message gets across. Not unlike Obama&#39;s prose writing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Compare the provocative rhymemongering of &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3j9ltp1qM8&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Joseph Lowery&lt;/A&gt; at Coretta Scott King&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/8428020434091505782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/8428020434091505782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229675820000#c8428020434091505782' title=''/><author><name>Vance Maverick</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jzbX-mkVPQs/SUdd0u-AooI/AAAAAAAAAGU/ab_RjG-VDzY/S220/gaze.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-876395077"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3468124738006493230</id><published>2008-12-19T01:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-19T01:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Oh my god that photo of RD&#39;s writing all over...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh my god that photo of RD&#39;s writing all over the first page of your &lt;I&gt;Maps&lt;/I&gt; # 6 essay on his work is not simply &quot;curious,&quot; it&#39;s amazing.   Maybe, to you in particular, a bit spooky too? (A voice from beyond the grave.)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The notations on the page are difficult to make out entirely, even under Photoshop enlargement, etc., but this much is clear from what can be read: RD </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/3468124738006493230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7445775992818011248/comments/default/3468124738006493230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html?showComment=1229667660000#c3468124738006493230' 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/2008/12/inaugural-poet-with-small-press.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7445775992818011248' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7445775992818011248' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2008"/></entry></feed>