<?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.post1062899943558874344..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/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.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>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1661186423747504938</id><published>2010-06-07T08:34:38.120-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-07T08:34:38.120-04:00</updated><title type='text'>“The poet is two people,” Mr. Voznesensky once sai...</title><summary type='text'>“The poet is two people,” Mr. Voznesensky once said. “One is an insignificant person, leading the most insignificant of lives. But behind him, like an echo, is the other person who writes poetry. Sometimes the two coexist. Sometimes they collide; this is why certain poets have tragic ends.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the old lions are passing with no young cubs to lead the hunt, perhaps we&amp;#39;re in an age </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default/1661186423747504938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default/1661186423747504938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.html?showComment=1275914078120#c1661186423747504938' title=''/><author><name>Ben Gage</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12683773285202472160</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='12' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sNaRYcIDwpQ/SnCY-oLJx-I/AAAAAAAAAFA/JaHSf7jTngY/S220/ben+and+guitar3.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1062899943558874344' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1062899943558874344' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-418149095"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8178092996935057223</id><published>2010-06-02T17:28:26.892-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T17:28:26.892-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes.&#xa;&#xa;google wickipedia for your answer!&#xa;        s...</title><summary type='text'>Yes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;google wickipedia for your answer!&lt;br /&gt;        sometime in the   80&amp;#39;s we all got lobotomized &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some one ought to pull the plug on these computers!  maybe re:invent The Mimeo-Revolution and move into the hills. Throw poems at them oil leaks and drones... that ought to fix the Bastards!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;everyone in schools are now reading the same things  and writing the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default/8178092996935057223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default/8178092996935057223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.html?showComment=1275514106892#c8178092996935057223' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</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='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1062899943558874344' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1062899943558874344' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2483926410308219431</id><published>2010-06-02T14:01:41.214-04:00</published><updated>2010-06-02T14:01:41.214-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The last paragraph of the NY Times obit, if accura...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;The last paragraph of the NY Times obit, if accurate, is interesting with regard to the social/cultural popularity and role of poets:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Like fellow poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Voznesensky&amp;#39;s readings once filled stadiums, but his popularity flagged with the increasing freedom of the glasnost era in the late 1980s.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are poets, poetry, at least those with verve </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default/2483926410308219431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1062899943558874344/comments/default/2483926410308219431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.html?showComment=1275501701214#c2483926410308219431' 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/2010/06/photo-by-gordon-ball-andrei-voznesensky.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1062899943558874344' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1062899943558874344' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 02, 2010"/></entry></feed>