<?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.post8835390670463639895..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/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5788904469525657943</id><published>2007-12-15T08:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-15T08:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Black Milk&quot; is not a metaphor...thanks Bob, for E...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Black Milk&quot; is not a metaphor...&lt;BR/&gt;thanks Bob, for Earish&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;you yet have &quot;it&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;still have that bushy read beard?  a bit grey  now  I suppose&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;first book of poetry I ever &#39;acquired&#39;  beyond the required &#39;lit-course&#39; &quot;stuff&quot;  Kali Yuga..1970&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;one cannot quite imagine/comprehend what Celan carried.. the &quot;ones&quot; went left (into the oven):  the &quot;twos&quot; went right ...&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/5788904469525657943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/5788904469525657943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197726420000#c5788904469525657943' title=''/><author><name>Ed</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='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/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7123465641751933434</id><published>2007-12-14T21:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T21:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I really like the Kindle widgetat the store, thoug...</title><summary type='text'>I really like the Kindle widget&lt;BR/&gt;at the store, though.  That or similar is getting here.  Like the other digital forms, the attempts to stuff the Gutenberg genie back into the bottle are slowing things down, but these things come. Early adopters probably don&#39;t care as much about resale, and the Kindle book is cheaper to start. It&#39;ll take a while for heads to&lt;BR/&gt;be scratched, flare up, calm </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/7123465641751933434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/7123465641751933434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197686940000#c7123465641751933434' title=''/><author><name>JimK</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16105117011358723753</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/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-712228124"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6328772232270338878</id><published>2007-12-14T16:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T16:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the &quot;in-depth interviewwith Jim Bertoli...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the &quot;in-depth interview&lt;BR/&gt;with Jim Bertolino&quot;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/6328772232270338878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/6328772232270338878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197667380000#c6328772232270338878' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6695482176672826540</id><published>2007-12-13T21:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T21:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That article on &quot;experimental philosophy&quot; is prett...</title><summary type='text'>That article on &quot;experimental philosophy&quot; is pretty good. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;The best work in experimental philosophy would be valuable and suggestive even if it skipped the actual experiments&quot; hits it on one of its heads. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The guy implicitly pegs the arrogance of the &quot;anti-armchair&quot; crowd by pointing out that it still takes thought to interpret the experimental results.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/6695482176672826540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/6695482176672826540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197598680000#c6695482176672826540' 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='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7356114677071381793</id><published>2007-12-13T21:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T21:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I was interested to see your reference to E. E. Cu...</title><summary type='text'>I was interested to see your reference to E. E. Cummings today. Note that I capitalize his name, despite popular belief that it should be lowercased. But lowercase is not what Cummings himself preferred, and the policy of Liveright (his publisher) over the 20+ years has been to use the proper capitals. Check out http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm and http://www.gvsu.edu/english/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/7356114677071381793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/7356114677071381793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197598500000#c7356114677071381793' title=''/><author><name>Michael Dylan Welch</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08214697397072156227</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/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1975331733"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3787100165954682981</id><published>2007-12-13T20:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T20:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The AFL-CIO first ‘went global’ in 1953-1954 while...</title><summary type='text'>The AFL-CIO first ‘went global’ in 1953-1954 while helping out with the Guatemalan coup against Jacobo Arbenz Guzman on behalf of United Fruit Company, leading to fifty years of death squads there.  It was also in on the Brazil coup in ‘64 and astride Pinochet in ‘73.  It funneled substantial funds from union dues for the coup against Chavez in ‘02, and Sweeney was, of course, a vocal supporter </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/3787100165954682981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/3787100165954682981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197595560000#c3787100165954682981' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1176222729442611241</id><published>2007-12-13T13:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T13:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron,Surprised to visit your site this morning...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Surprised to visit your site this morning and see you&#39;d linked to a reluctant interview I gave for an article here in my hometown.  Thanks!  Sort of--I really don&#39;t like to be quoted on things I say in person, because I never quite say what I mean.  I had asked, when the journalist read back to me what I&#39;d said, that this: &quot;&quot;You see all these moments and they&#39;re so vivid and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/1176222729442611241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/1176222729442611241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197570840000#c1176222729442611241' title=''/><author><name>ashley</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13073023149168414140</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/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2098893284"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-885679637673368583</id><published>2007-12-13T10:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T10:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I liked Dale Smith&#39;s article on Ed Dorn quite a lo...</title><summary type='text'>I liked Dale Smith&#39;s article on Ed Dorn quite a lot.  Thanks for linking to it.  One small contention:  when Dale writes that Dorn&#39;s central role is that of Old Testament prophet howling in the wilderness (his howl unlike Ginsberg&#39;s not at all in tune with the general roar of the left), I just want to remind Dale of the neat moment in Tom Clark&#39;s great bio of Dorn in which Dorn writes to Clark </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/885679637673368583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/885679637673368583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197561060000#c885679637673368583' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3035870343356003812</id><published>2007-12-13T08:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T08:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The web site is working again and so am I.Here is ...</title><summary type='text'>The web site is working again and so am I.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here is 9&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00114ZHNE&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks again --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Didi</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/3035870343356003812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/3035870343356003812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197553380000#c3035870343356003812' title=''/><author><name>Didi Menendez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08195202743154382432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://profile.ak.facebook.com/profile6/449/99/n511926029_5173.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301407041"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3505153502578006829</id><published>2007-12-13T07:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T07:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The kindle publishing site is down this morning. E...</title><summary type='text'>The kindle publishing site is down this morning. Everything is gone. Even the help forums are gone. Looks like a major crash.&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;People don&#39;t realize how hard all of this is. All the work that takes place in the background. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;All they do is complain about this, about that not being perfect to them... They don&#39;t complain though when someone out of the blue may say to them - Hey I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/3505153502578006829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8835390670463639895/comments/default/3505153502578006829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html?showComment=1197549600000#c3505153502578006829' title=''/><author><name>Didi Menendez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08195202743154382432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://profile.ak.facebook.com/profile6/449/99/n511926029_5173.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/ocho-12-is-first-poetry-mag-available.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8835390670463639895' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8835390670463639895' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301407041"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry></feed>