<?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.post8222621606147859428..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/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.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-6237200632338098653</id><published>2007-02-22T14:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T14:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A good argument could be made that Michener was ne...</title><summary type='text'>A good argument could be made that Michener was never strictly a creative writer.  He began as an academic--and a dry one at that, adept at scholarly research and editing--and his mature work now appears in retrospect to have been a fulfillment of those early functions.  His early interest in the Orient and South Pacific was expressed not merely in the fictions Tales of the South Pacific, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6237200632338098653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6237200632338098653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172171280000#c6237200632338098653' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-929578065104975475</id><published>2007-02-22T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T13:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Re Alberta.Last year all eligible residents of Alb...</title><summary type='text'>Re Alberta.&lt;BR/&gt;Last year all eligible residents of Alberta received a $400 resource rebate thanks to a budget surplus.&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s a term not heard too often.&lt;BR/&gt;A typical family of four received $1600 in the mail along with the view of a horizon that never ends, clearly visible through SUV windows when homeward bound from the Cineplex.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/929578065104975475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/929578065104975475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172170140000#c929578065104975475' title=''/><author><name>PFCAlbertAyler</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04923287031424923548</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-492242838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-670185210430788373</id><published>2007-02-22T13:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T13:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jessica, sorry to be contrary, but what did you fi...</title><summary type='text'>Jessica, sorry to be contrary, but what did you find cruel to other poets in James Fenton&#39;s essay on Auden?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Fenton just said, it&#39;d been a long time since he&#39;d met a young fanatic of Pound and Zukofsky.  Maybe that&#39;s just true for him, over there in England where he lives and has taught.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/670185210430788373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/670185210430788373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172169000000#c670185210430788373' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7816578726762371486</id><published>2007-02-22T12:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T12:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The trouble with the drop-off in private arts fund...</title><summary type='text'>The trouble with the drop-off in private arts funding is that, for someone like me who doesn&#39;t believe in governmental support of the arts, without the private sector to pick up the slack, many arts events and programs may go begging.  Maybe, in the end, it&#39;s a matter of our no longer being able to afford a symphony orchestra in every major city, just as we may be coming to the point that not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/7816578726762371486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/7816578726762371486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172166600000#c7816578726762371486' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4097508485684189268</id><published>2007-02-22T12:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T12:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Poor Auden.  Misunderstood on nearly every level. ...</title><summary type='text'>Poor Auden.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Misunderstood on nearly every level.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whose career divides neatly--or so the biographers believe--into two (or three) neat compartments.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nothing more than a &quot;reflection of his time&quot; if you ask me.  In the &#39;Thirties, the Leftist lion and passionate critic, the young romantic in the thick of it.  After the war, emigrating to America where his thin English</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/4097508485684189268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/4097508485684189268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172164620000#c4097508485684189268' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5036008161869088069</id><published>2007-02-22T09:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T09:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>“It’s been a long timesince I meta young fanaticfo...</title><summary type='text'>“It’s been a long time&lt;BR/&gt;since I met&lt;BR/&gt;a young fanatic&lt;BR/&gt;for Pound or Zukofsky”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;what rock is this guy living under? and couldn&#39;t he make his point *without* insulting other poets?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/5036008161869088069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/5036008161869088069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172154900000#c5036008161869088069' title=''/><author><name>Jessica Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04717874657318262267</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/buddyicons/46348889@N00.jpg?1170283637'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1614957257"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6971772656305687349</id><published>2007-02-22T09:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T09:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How very entertaining to know that the Diplomatic ...</title><summary type='text'>How very entertaining to know that the Diplomatic community in Qatar (US ally in the region) is so much more well versed and interested in poetry than the rest of the world.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Oh dear.  Let me contain my glee at the Women&#39;s Philanthropic Organizations of the World and the Drink Clubs of the Orient for a minute.  Having been a member of both I could almost hear the tinkling of the glasses </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6971772656305687349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6971772656305687349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172154780000#c6971772656305687349' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='18' src='http://static.flickr.com/29/98495715_9b4a202fcf_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6825046203449699953</id><published>2007-02-22T09:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T09:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Who reads Auden?&quot; Aside from York cabbies, James ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Who reads Auden?&quot; Aside from York cabbies, &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2018481,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=10&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;James Fenton does&lt;/A&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6825046203449699953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6825046203449699953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172154480000#c6825046203449699953' title=''/><author><name>Andrew Philip</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10006232197499662437</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5411/526/1600/philip120.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2123967671"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6094632525073093</id><published>2007-02-22T08:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T08:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, that should probably read either &quot;plagiarized...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, that should probably read either &quot;plagiarized pianists&quot;. Or, perhaps, &quot;plagiarizing producer&quot;. More than one performer has been copied &amp; it isn&#39;t yet entirely clear whether the  ailing and now deceased Hatto knew what her husband was doing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6094632525073093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8222621606147859428/comments/default/6094632525073093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html?showComment=1172152260000#c6094632525073093' title=''/><author><name>Herb Levy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04535714024154963215</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/tom-devaney-on-charles-bernstein.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8222621606147859428' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8222621606147859428' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1047599926"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry></feed>