<?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.post9141231755398088514..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/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/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>28</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7050829567131031306</id><published>2007-02-28T16:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-28T16:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Here is a list of the 15 Chicago Poets from the an...</title><summary type='text'>Here is a list of the 15 Chicago Poets from the anthology of that name, published in 1976 by The Yellow Press:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ted Berrigan&lt;BR/&gt;Walter Bradford&lt;BR/&gt;Gwendolyn Brooks&lt;BR/&gt;Paul Carroll&lt;BR/&gt;Maxine Chernoff&lt;BR/&gt;Richard Friedman&lt;BR/&gt;Paul Hoover&lt;BR/&gt;Angela Jackson&lt;BR/&gt;Henry Kanabus&lt;BR/&gt;Peter Kostakis&lt;BR/&gt;Art Lange&lt;BR/&gt;Don L. Lee&lt;BR/&gt;Alice Notley&lt;BR/&gt;Darlene Pearlstein&lt;BR/&gt;Barry Schechter&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7050829567131031306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7050829567131031306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172696460000#c7050829567131031306' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 28, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8334990000349846979</id><published>2007-02-25T12:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T12:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis’ questions:The Bulgarian Naval Academy is n...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis’ questions:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Bulgarian Naval Academy is named after the nationalist poet Nikola Vaptsarov.  After the Communist regime fell, the first Bulgarian Vice President elected was the woman poet Blaga Dimitrova.  Konstantin Pavlov is also a window to the life and censorship under the Soviet Bloc and the current situation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The poet Imants Ziedonis was a Deputy in the Latvian </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8334990000349846979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8334990000349846979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172424420000#c8334990000349846979' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1114391672334387983</id><published>2007-02-25T10:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T10:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ok, I take it all back.  I just thought I saw a pa...</title><summary type='text'>Ok, I take it all back.  I just thought I saw a pattern is all, and I thought there must be something else going on.  If your motives in hating Andrei and Christo are purely based on aesthetic criteria or what you see as selling out, or something, you&#39;re entitled.  I don&#39;t see either one of them in this light.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do think that people have a right to feed themselves.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1114391672334387983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1114391672334387983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172416440000#c1114391672334387983' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7265124521246133287</id><published>2007-02-24T23:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T23:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>No no no!  I love Simic!  He&#39;s stuck absolutely to...</title><summary type='text'>No no no!  I love Simic!  He&#39;s stuck absolutely to his own inspiration right through thick and thin.  He&#39;s a bastion!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Goodness me, Kirby, don&#39;t impute these terrible motives to me!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7265124521246133287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7265124521246133287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172378700000#c7265124521246133287' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1382214971881442643</id><published>2007-02-24T15:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T15:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think you also said that you hated Charles Simic...</title><summary type='text'>I think you also said that you hated Charles Simic.  Again, it&#39;s just that it&#39;s so rare in you to express this complete and utter contempt.  Perhaps even your disgust for Billy Collins is not so visceral.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I barely know Salamun.  Milosz I should like better, but I find it too safe: what little I&#39;ve read.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I seem to like art that tapdances with falsity, only to poke through with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1382214971881442643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1382214971881442643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172349360000#c1382214971881442643' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2203014704963096079</id><published>2007-02-24T12:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T12:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andrei actually is Romanian.  Is that &quot;Eastern Eur...</title><summary type='text'>Andrei actually is Romanian.  Is that &quot;Eastern European&quot;?  Hmm.  A good friend of mine who was of Jewish/Romanian descent recently died.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But you might be on to something.  Christo and Perlmutter.  Meretricious art.  Media puppets.  The good old foundation hustle.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Do you like Tomas Salamun?  I like Milosz--the poems.  Are there any Bulgarian poets?  Certainly there must be, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/2203014704963096079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/2203014704963096079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172336640000#c2203014704963096079' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7999542838149449781</id><published>2007-02-23T19:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T19:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, you hate Eastern Europeans for some reason...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, you hate Eastern Europeans for some reason.  You hated Christo with the same passion.  It&#39;s unusual for you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7999542838149449781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7999542838149449781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172278320000#c7999542838149449781' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3602449047598705210</id><published>2007-02-23T12:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T12:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The best thing about Andrei is that his real name ...</title><summary type='text'>The best thing about Andrei is that his real name is Andrei Perlmutter.  Attaboy, ole&#39; Perlmutter!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3602449047598705210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3602449047598705210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172250000000#c3602449047598705210' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9037047876036823762</id><published>2007-02-23T05:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-23T05:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I like good writers. I&#39;m unimpressed with clubs a...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I like good writers. I&#39;m unimpressed with clubs and coteries. No one agrees with me, but what the Hell.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, that is probably one of the few things we do agree on Curtis.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/9037047876036823762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/9037047876036823762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172226120000#c9037047876036823762' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4590454629965658848</id><published>2007-02-22T16:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T16:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, Codrescu has about forty books out.  There...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, Codrescu has about forty books out.  There are a half dozen very-well-reviewed novels, for instance. Have you ever read any of them?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;They have a beautiful style and are perplexing and funny and they make first printings in the 50,000 range.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/4590454629965658848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/4590454629965658848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172179380000#c4590454629965658848' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3483673129466845797</id><published>2007-02-22T13:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T13:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Codrescu has never written anything I liked, or co...</title><summary type='text'>Codrescu has never written anything I liked, or could acknowledge as valid.  Maybe he&#39;s a good radio voice, I hardly would know.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Acknowledging individuals who were or are important to you is one thing; to claim that because you were part of a tightly knit little group of like-minded aspirants 25 years ago, should be grounds for one&#39;s place in history, is quite another thing.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3483673129466845797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3483673129466845797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172170320000#c3483673129466845797' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' 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-3199961956295413902</id><published>2007-02-22T13:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T13:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>On the other hand other people do matter, Curtis. ...</title><summary type='text'>On the other hand other people do matter, Curtis. My mom matters to me as a writer, for instance, even though I don&#39;t think about her when I&#39;m writing.  If it hadn&#39;t been for my mom, I might not have thought much about writing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My mom&#39;s family was very interested in the arts.  Her family had a lot of reporters and humor columnists in it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In a larger sense, friends also matter.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3199961956295413902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3199961956295413902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172167200000#c3199961956295413902' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1469828715339626186</id><published>2007-02-22T11:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T11:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My over-riding point is that groups don&#39;t make poe...</title><summary type='text'>My over-riding point is that groups don&#39;t make poets, individual poets do.  Using this presumption, Equi would have been a good writer with, or without her surrounding &quot;support&quot; group.  Were Berrigan and Notley great teachers?  When a &quot;scene&quot; gets started, people in it tend to get excited about the possibilities thereof, and that&#39;s very nice for them.  My problem is in privileging self-serving </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1469828715339626186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1469828715339626186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172162160000#c1469828715339626186' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' 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-3263581937805903876</id><published>2007-02-22T10:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T10:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is a helpful note from Paul Hoover. I never t...</title><summary type='text'>This is a helpful note from Paul Hoover. I never thought of Elaine Equi as a student.  She seemed to emerge full-blown solid poet at some point in the 70s or early 80s when humor was still a rarity, esp. among women poets where Plath or someone along those lines ... Adrienne Rich ... was seemingly still more of a model.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Equi has an interview somewhere with Susan Gervitz talking about the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3263581937805903876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/3263581937805903876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172159520000#c3263581937805903876' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5760985813568439353</id><published>2007-02-22T04:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T04:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Not lukewarm, less than lukewarm. But I would have...</title><summary type='text'>Not lukewarm, less than lukewarm. But I would have thought it&#39;s obvious Curtis. If one wishes to communicate that one likes or doesn&#39;t like something it&#39;s easy: i.e. I like/don&#39;t like this. If one doesn&#39;t like something but wishes to communicate this without being direct one uses qualifiers like &quot;might&quot;. The mention of a &quot;coterie&quot; is also useful.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/5760985813568439353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/5760985813568439353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172136780000#c5760985813568439353' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-278388558384708763</id><published>2007-02-21T21:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T21:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The situation in Chicago in the 70s and 80s was mo...</title><summary type='text'>The situation in Chicago in the 70s and 80s was more complex than the comments here indicate.  Elaine doesn&#39;t come out of Andrei, Ted and Alice, or the Yellow Press group, with whom Curtis Faville is singularly unimpressed. Surrealism was in the air generally, and Bill Knott was in Chicago combining that tendency with a bit of the Deep Image.  Maxine Chernoff&#39;s prose poems were an influence, and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/278388558384708763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/278388558384708763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172111520000#c278388558384708763' title=''/><author><name>Paul Hoover</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16113950076590892516</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://www.newamericanwriting.com/images/phoover.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-220084184"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7728388336311462850</id><published>2007-02-21T19:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T19:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually, I thought I was praising her straight.  ...</title><summary type='text'>Actually, I thought I was praising her straight.  How did it come out as &quot;lukewarm&quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7728388336311462850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7728388336311462850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172103600000#c7728388336311462850' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8323246600952882052</id><published>2007-02-21T16:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T16:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>rikki (and others(:For information an surrealism i...</title><summary type='text'>rikki (and others(:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For information an surrealism in  American poetry in the last few decades, including a bit about it in Chicago, I suggest Andrew Joron&#39;s 59 page book-pamphlet &lt;I&gt;Neo-Surrealism; or, The Sun at Night&lt;/I&gt; which is sub-titled, &quot;Transformations of Surrealism in American Poetry 1966-1999.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8323246600952882052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8323246600952882052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172091600000#c8323246600952882052' 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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7508056118086234149</id><published>2007-02-21T15:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T15:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks Ron, I like Elaine&#39;s stuff. I&#39;m just a wee ...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks Ron, I like Elaine&#39;s stuff. I&#39;m just a wee bit surprised that you approve, though not at all surprised at Curtis&#39;s faint, less than lukewarm praise. I look forward to getting hold of the book.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7508056118086234149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/7508056118086234149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172089380000#c7508056118086234149' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8770290064917004713</id><published>2007-02-21T13:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T13:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I was using my wife&#39;s computer so her name came up...</title><summary type='text'>I was using my wife&#39;s computer so her name came up.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never quite understood why Codrescu used that word &quot;epigone&quot; in relation to Equi? Had he been kidding -- as a sort of false bluster?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Did he mean to use another word?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Is there another sense of the word that he meant?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If there is a sense in which Equi is imitating someone, I wouldn&#39;t think it was Codrescu </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8770290064917004713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8770290064917004713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172083260000#c8770290064917004713' 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/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1731057485562504090</id><published>2007-02-21T11:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T11:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>In an interview with Codrescu in MY Book on Codres...</title><summary type='text'>In an interview with Codrescu in MY Book on Codrescu, I asked him for a list of those who have meant a lot to him, and he said in a list,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;...Elaine Equi, Chicago surrealist, one of my contemporary epigones...&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What did he mean by &quot;epigone&quot;?  In Webster&#39;s Collegiate it says an &quot;undistinquished imitator of an important artist&quot; -- did he mean she was copying his work, but poorly?&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1731057485562504090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/1731057485562504090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1172075040000#c1731057485562504090' title=''/><author><name>Riikka</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073373308873649644</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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-191179413"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8298090020822328008</id><published>2007-02-20T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>hint: the wait might not be long. it might maybe b...</title><summary type='text'>hint: the wait might not be long. it might maybe be already over.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8298090020822328008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/8298090020822328008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1171991700000#c8298090020822328008' title=''/><author><name>CLAY BANES</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658806946108194962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://lh3.google.com/_6SQBrtEu124/Rb6PNwpV5xI/AAAAAAAAADw/X6xmNGs9x8A/s1600/square%2Beyeball.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1291817752"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4716912928891754758</id><published>2007-02-20T10:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T10:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I cannat wait to get my hands on this book (but it...</title><summary type='text'>I cannat wait to get my hands on this book (but it looks as though I&#39;ll have to). Thanks, Ron.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/4716912928891754758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/4716912928891754758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1171987080000#c4716912928891754758' title=''/><author><name>Sheila Murphy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13792032204825244976</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/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1614764991"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6694417227119323531</id><published>2007-02-20T10:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T10:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d say the latter one is older.</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d say the latter one is older.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/6694417227119323531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/6694417227119323531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1171987020000#c6694417227119323531' title=''/><author><name>Kevin Doran</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08640770705948611352</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/slud/P7040053.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-405491431"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5565713259885433450</id><published>2007-02-20T10:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T10:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Elaine is awesome. Hooray for her new book!</title><summary type='text'>Elaine is awesome. Hooray for her new book!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/5565713259885433450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/9141231755398088514/comments/default/5565713259885433450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html?showComment=1171985220000#c5565713259885433450' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/02/you-would-think-that-living-in-new-york.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9141231755398088514' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/9141231755398088514' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2007"/></entry></feed>