<?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.post112367684187719384..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/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.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>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112470460521566042</id><published>2005-08-22T05:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-22T05:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This book  is pretty amazing. I think Baraka would...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/068818474X/qid=1124697753/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-6603484-4770264?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; This book &lt;/A&gt; is pretty amazing. I think Baraka would be a shoo-in to win a &quot;poetry book&quot;/&quot;non-fiction book&quot; biathlon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His first two books of poetry are very good. If he is just derivative of O&#39;Hara, then O&#39;Hara should have </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112470460521566042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112470460521566042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1124704560000#c112470460521566042' title=''/><author><name>joe o</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13429530394199940819</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2112112765"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112394722333182999</id><published>2005-08-13T11:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-13T11:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Thomas can take a share of the credit in bringing...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Thomas can take a share of the credit in bringing readers to one of the great rural white poets of our time.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There&#39;s a subcategory of rural white poets?  I knew of the rural white socialist poets with their E-Zine &quot;The Red Wheelbarrow.&quot;  But missed on the larger association unless it&#39;s that group headed by Ted Kooser offering internet poetry workshops when you ordered corn liquor.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112394722333182999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112394722333182999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123947180000#c112394722333182999' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112394351748254705</id><published>2005-08-13T10:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-13T10:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ken Jacobs is correct.  It was Barrett Watten.  I ...</title><summary type='text'>Ken Jacobs is correct.  It was Barrett Watten.  I read that before I started reading Ron&#39;s blague.  When I read this piece and the previous one on Baraka it read to me as the equivalent of a drive-by, and it felt like revenge for some earlier slight.  I remembered the account of some language poet (I still have not separated the gang very well) who had had a run-in with Baraka at Orono.  I would </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112394351748254705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112394351748254705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123943460000#c112394351748254705' 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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112394079413903292</id><published>2005-08-13T09:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-13T09:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For the hundredth time, CD Wright was not Frank St...</title><summary type='text'>For the hundredth time, CD Wright was not Frank Stanford&#39;s publisher. Five years before Stanford met Wright, he met Irv Broughton at the Hollins conference. Irv published The Singing Knives the next year. Right from that first book--which perhaps Silliman (like many) actually has never seen--Stanford&#39;s gift was on full display right from the start in the long poems &quot;The Singing Knives,&quot; &quot;The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112394079413903292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112394079413903292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123940760000#c112394079413903292' title=''/><author><name>hackzkztv</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04809989461583195705</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1003761333"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112389202740328393</id><published>2005-08-12T20:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T20:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It’s one of those facts of life that discussions o...</title><summary type='text'>It’s one of those facts of life that discussions of Baraka these days break down into discussions of ‘Somebody Blew Up America’ and, though the structure of ‘Blew’ is similar to other works of his, it doesn’t necessarily represent a majority of even those works of his that have a political dimension, even in recent years.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it is a “crime of passion” that Baraka’s political </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112389202740328393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112389202740328393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123891980000#c112389202740328393' 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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112387858887785295</id><published>2005-08-12T16:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T16:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>“The clichés in this piece are comically preposter...</title><summary type='text'>“The clichés in this piece are comically preposterous. “They speak of singing who / have never heard song,” is my favorite, sort of a literary Ed Wood moment. It’s worth noting this precisely to get beyond the idea that Baraka never used a cliché until he began to focus on writing within a black nationalist frame of reference.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don’t know whose notion this is but any discussion in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112387858887785295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112387858887785295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123878540000#c112387858887785295' title=''/><author><name>Lon Silliman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05557544995428892686</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1747027750"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112387143068516694</id><published>2005-08-12T14:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T14:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Perhaps Mr. Olson is recalling a dispute between M...</title><summary type='text'>Perhaps Mr. Olson is recalling a dispute between Mr. Baraka and Mr. Watten.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;See:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://jacketmagazine.com/12/prevallet-orono.html</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112387143068516694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112387143068516694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123871400000#c112387143068516694' title=''/><author><name>Ken Jacobs</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15313917046304561922</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1288455354"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112387004654007960</id><published>2005-08-12T14:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T14:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>http://www.black-collegian.com/african/baraka-a129...</title><summary type='text'>http://www.black-collegian.com/african/baraka-a1299.shtml&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is the link to a great interview with Baraka where he gives advice on writing. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He was in the air force and this is where he did much reading as there was nothing else to do. The one thing you get from reading the piece is that Baraka was very much aware of the responsibility he had been given through his upbringing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112387004654007960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112387004654007960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123870020000#c112387004654007960' title=''/><author><name>Scalljah</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14578109925453070447</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1613744976"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112386829549218000</id><published>2005-08-12T13:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T13:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,I never had a run-in with Amiri in Orono or ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never had a run-in with Amiri in Orono or anywhere else.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So far as I can tell, he and I have never even been in Orono at the same time. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You&#39;re thinking of somebody else. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112386829549218000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112386829549218000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123868280000#c112386829549218000' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112386540147928060</id><published>2005-08-12T12:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T12:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This post fascinated me -- the history of this man...</title><summary type='text'>This post fascinated me -- the history of this man is also fascinating -- his early involvement with Ginsberg and co. up through today.  His daughter&#39;s murder by a man she had dated (?) -- it wasn&#39;t clear who had killed her as the case had not been closed the last I heard.  He had a brother killed early on by the police (?).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron, what part does your run-in with Baraka at Orono a few </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112386540147928060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112386540147928060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123865400000#c112386540147928060' 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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112386177743283612</id><published>2005-08-12T11:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T11:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Whilst not holding all the knowledge on Baraka&#39;s l...</title><summary type='text'>Whilst not holding all the knowledge on Baraka&#39;s life and his trajectory which would allow me to engage in a debate with those possessing more, my current position on him is that he is one of the most significant American poets of his generation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I first came across him during a class in writing school when we listened to a tape of some of the poets from the Rothenberg Millenium </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112386177743283612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112386177743283612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123861740000#c112386177743283612' title=''/><author><name>Scalljah</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14578109925453070447</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1613744976"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112385409513772355</id><published>2005-08-12T09:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T09:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Trying to prove that Jones&#39; later developments in ...</title><summary type='text'>Trying to prove that Jones&#39; later developments in style are justified by belittling his earlier--and derivative--work, seems a peculiarly narrow agenda.  It&#39;s like saying there were only two ways for him to go, which, in the arts, is patently absurd.  Jones&#39; early rhetorical style was in keeping with both his anger, personal grace, and his political/personal confusions.  Reading those early poems</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112385409513772355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112385409513772355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123854060000#c112385409513772355' 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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112385008649252687</id><published>2005-08-12T08:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-12T08:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve been working recently with young African writ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve been working recently with young African writers through a British Council sponsored initiative called Crossing Borders, so I appreciate your remarks about seeing Black poetry in white terms. It&#39;s a real balancing act: how to get people to write about their real experiences in literary terms without just creating copies of Western models. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(These are young people who sometimes only </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112385008649252687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/112367684187719384/comments/default/112385008649252687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html?showComment=1123850040000#c112385008649252687' title=''/><author><name>Steven Waling</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12004262911484220016</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/2005/08/lorenzo-thomas-bob-kaufman-who.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-112367684187719384' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/112367684187719384' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-385466981"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2005"/></entry></feed>