<?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.post113931828743321251..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/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113938369570350714</id><published>2006-02-08T02:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-08T02:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113938369570350714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113938369570350714'/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 08, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113937320715304725</id><published>2006-02-07T23:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T23:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Excellent post, Ron. Fascinating poetry, most spec...</title><summary type='text'>Excellent post, Ron. Fascinating poetry, most specifically &quot;Shooting Kinesha.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113937320715304725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113937320715304725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139373180000#c113937320715304725' title=''/><author><name>Michael Parker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01280355936107965244</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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2002640408"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113936896203137502</id><published>2006-02-07T22:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T22:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The line neglected:I wish I wanted to kill my husb...</title><summary type='text'>The line neglected:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wish I wanted to kill my husband.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wish I:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Wanted to get out of this upper middle class educated elite into which I have been thrust.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In terms of the quality of the poem itself...well...okay it is alright but is more of that business of writing a poem instead of a short story because ONE doesn&#39;t have the time to do it but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113936896203137502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113936896203137502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139368920000#c113936896203137502' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113936495424238694</id><published>2006-02-07T21:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T21:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for this review, Ron. I find Daisy a very i...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for this review, Ron. I find Daisy a very interesting poet, and I&#39;m very interested in dramatic monologue, persona, and how to get conversation &quot;into&quot; poems - I&#39;ve experimented with it and found it&#39;s very challenging to create natural speech without sounding prosy, but it seems like something contempo poetry needs - language, speech, that sounds real.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113936495424238694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113936495424238694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139364900000#c113936495424238694' title=''/><author><name>jeannine</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16419593830749483323</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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679745349"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113934829709429113</id><published>2006-02-07T16:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T16:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Herb:Thanks, I think you have a point.  Credit due...</title><summary type='text'>Herb:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks, I think you have a point.  Credit due.  Too, finished cinema is an expression of acting talent--not all actors could make those lines work.  It&#39;s actually a collaboration--which McMurtry keeps emphasizing--so a screenplay is not a &quot;separable&quot; entity from the finished movie, even though awards are categorized that way, best screenplay, best actor, etc.       &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113934829709429113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113934829709429113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139348280000#c113934829709429113' 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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113933398492779995</id><published>2006-02-07T12:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T12:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I have to pick up on the &quot;grinding&quot; that Curtis he...</title><summary type='text'>I have to pick up on the &quot;grinding&quot; that Curtis hears. I too felt a sense of grinding when I went through (read is probably the wrong word) Fried&#39;s long narrative there. I don&#39;t see why this shouldn&#39;t be in prose, as a piece of microfiction. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Indeed, with its contemplation, though never truly risky contemplation, of the author&#39;s relationship to the Carribean elite (Walcott), the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113933398492779995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113933398492779995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139333940000#c113933398492779995' title=''/><author><name>Simon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03035545713190516583</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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113932614412385456</id><published>2006-02-07T10:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T10:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pssh, Mysh. Put down the General Foods concentrate...</title><summary type='text'>Pssh, Mysh. Put down the General Foods concentrated drink powder -- step away from the binary. Fried&#39;s f&#39;real.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932614412385456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932614412385456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139326140000#c113932614412385456' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113932544353684815</id><published>2006-02-07T10:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T10:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Confused a bit.  So it&#39;s only clean SoQs (argyle, ...</title><summary type='text'>Confused a bit.  So it&#39;s only clean SoQs (argyle, bobby, tube, pany hose, bare feet) that are the enemy, and dirty or frayed SoQs are acceptible?   But what do we do with poems like these (the ones shown at least) in which a daisy fresh poet at Smith by way of Swarthmore can tell her funky SoQ tales.  Or is this just a matter of neighborliness among fellow Pew-ites?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932544353684815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932544353684815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139325420000#c113932544353684815' title=''/><author><name>myshkin2</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12334340208396536106</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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-16179833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113932436882279109</id><published>2006-02-07T09:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T09:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I think scriptwriters have a better handle on dra...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I think scriptwriters have a better handle on dramatic &quot;real&quot; speech than MFA candidates.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Would you be so cavalier about not citing the authors of other &quot;real poetry&quot; if it had been written by a &quot;real poet&quot; rather than a script writer? It&#39;s not as if it&#39;s a hardship to find the out who wrote a screenplay online, and yet you don&#39;t bother to check the names of the writers of the two </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932436882279109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932436882279109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139324340000#c113932436882279109' title=''/><author><name>Herb Levy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04535714024154963215</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1047599926"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113932215178082343</id><published>2006-02-07T09:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T09:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>On second thought:  The Shoshana clip is part of a...</title><summary type='text'>On second thought:  The Shoshana clip is part of a short story that hasn&#39;t yet been written.  How would Raymond Carver do it?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932215178082343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932215178082343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139322120000#c113932215178082343' 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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113932196687627073</id><published>2006-02-07T09:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T09:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fried&#39;s preoccupations suggest her work will only ...</title><summary type='text'>Fried&#39;s preoccupations suggest her work will only bear watching if she finds a subject dramatic enough to justify the grinding reportage.  He said/she said/I went/you went, then we all met at the pizza parlor and had a beer.  The immediacy of social interaction, fictionalized or adjusted for dramatic purpose.  My problem with a poem like Shooting Kinesha is:  Is any of this real?  Is this just an</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932196687627073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113931828743321251/comments/default/113932196687627073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html?showComment=1139321940000#c113932196687627073' 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/2006/02/daisy-fried-had-just-been-accepted.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113931828743321251' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113931828743321251' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2006"/></entry></feed>