<?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.post114735137341947203..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/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/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>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114765211803781927</id><published>2006-05-14T20:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-14T20:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Fight the good fight, Clay. I know your store. It ...</title><summary type='text'>Fight the good fight, Clay. I know your store. It does.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114765211803781927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114765211803781927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147652100000#c114765211803781927' title=''/><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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114764798432305264</id><published>2006-05-14T19:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-14T19:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>thanks for the great post, ron, and everyone&#39;s com...</title><summary type='text'>thanks for the great post, ron, and everyone&#39;s comments.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i work at one of berkeley&#39;s smallest used and new bookstores (primarily used), directly across the street from barnes ignoble. cody&#39;s closing on telegraph is not a good thing. the more i think about it, the sicker i get. i can&#39;t fault either cody&#39;s or moe&#39;s for whatever poetry books they don&#39;t carry, because i know how hard it is. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114764798432305264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114764798432305264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147647960000#c114764798432305264' 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='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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1291817752"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114761337023579715</id><published>2006-05-14T09:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-14T09:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>john, logan--thank you for giving some insight int...</title><summary type='text'>john, logan--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thank you for giving some insight into the spicer-to-be books-- quite an event to be sure!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Scott</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114761337023579715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114761337023579715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147613340000#c114761337023579715' title=''/><author><name>Scott Glassman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09765668936962074730</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1630916886"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 14, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114756947889808809</id><published>2006-05-13T21:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-13T21:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes.  George Albon.  We love you!</title><summary type='text'>Yes.  George Albon.  We love you!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114756947889808809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114756947889808809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147569420000#c114756947889808809' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114748966628588269</id><published>2006-05-12T23:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T23:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Glenn,sorry to hear about A Clean Well-Lighted Pla...</title><summary type='text'>Glenn,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;sorry to hear about A Clean Well-Lighted Place in hard times -- you&#39;re conjuring my gone days.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers,&lt;BR/&gt;d.i.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114748966628588269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114748966628588269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147489620000#c114748966628588269' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114748573639009080</id><published>2006-05-12T22:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T22:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>as for spicer...yes, wesleyan u. will be publishin...</title><summary type='text'>as for spicer...yes, wesleyan u. will be publishing 4 or 5 new &quot;collected&quot; books, the first of them being the new collected poetry/ books (if i remember right, with over 100 pgs of never before seen work...quite an event!)...i worked many a day on the new (and old) material with kevin and peter at the bancroft...as did brandon brown, as did logan, as did kelly holt...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;logan is absolutly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114748573639009080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114748573639009080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147485720000#c114748573639009080' title=''/><author><name>John Sakkis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08621102858745971700</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1144833194"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114748542929786579</id><published>2006-05-12T21:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T21:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes. ButNet serendipity and old-style shelf serend...</title><summary type='text'>Yes. But&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Net serendipity and old-style shelf serendipity aren&#39;t of a piece. The unknown volume fallen into the hand after hours of idling among familiar spines: a flaneur&#39;s pleasure, yes? There are virtual parallels, no doubt. And I wouldn&#39;t valorize those creaky floorboards over the net&#39;s ruthless overload, except that: there&#39;s a difference. And it&#39;s lost. And yes, nostalgic, in that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114748542929786579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114748542929786579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147485420000#c114748542929786579' title=''/><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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114747136016516670</id><published>2006-05-12T18:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T18:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Plus the category killer chains have clean toilets...</title><summary type='text'>Plus the category killer chains have clean toilets you can use from the streets with pen drawings of James Joyce above the door.  They also bring a little more poetry, lit fiction, and philosophy into the boondocks to give those confused suburban adolescents a shot at stumbling into ‘A Season in Hell’ or ‘Discipline and Punish.’ The new book places I miss are the ones in the cities that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114747136016516670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114747136016516670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147471320000#c114747136016516670' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114746675927052842</id><published>2006-05-12T16:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T16:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>that&#39;s actually a pretty good point. i buy nearly ...</title><summary type='text'>that&#39;s actually a pretty good point. i buy nearly all my NEW small press publications online--just don&#39;t often see what i&#39;m looking for in bookstores--any of them.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114746675927052842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114746675927052842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147466700000#c114746675927052842' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18315356369259909084</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277623651"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114746501215287794</id><published>2006-05-12T16:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T16:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The weird part about it is so many of these vain &quot;...</title><summary type='text'>The weird part about it is so many of these vain &quot;independent&quot; bookstores stocked the same books as the mall-emporiums, but at higher prices.  Why would anyone want to perpetuate small independents by paying higher prices?  Most of these proud little independents were poorly run anyway, with little insight into categories, and the usual fluff of postcards, toys, magazines, new age crap, and the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114746501215287794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114746501215287794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147464960000#c114746501215287794' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114746322684795362</id><published>2006-05-12T15:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T15:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>thanks Ron. nice history. i think you&#39;re right abo...</title><summary type='text'>thanks Ron. nice history. i think you&#39;re right about t-shirt and cal paraphernalia sales.&lt;BR/&gt;i would guess that half of the people i see walking around bezerkly are wearing some sort of cal logo.&lt;BR/&gt;go bears (yes more nukes). berkeley is anything but a nuclear free zone.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;fyi, When Jackson MacLow and Anne Tardos were out here west here that is ,&lt;BR/&gt;Jackson spoke of his friendship with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114746322684795362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114746322684795362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147463220000#c114746322684795362' title=''/><author><name>Bill Luoma</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18265429836386861302</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-88009813"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114745877262096930</id><published>2006-05-12T14:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T14:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for the portrait of Berkeley, Ron. Cody&#39;s h...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for the portrait of Berkeley, Ron. Cody&#39;s has the best selection of literary magazines in town. I&#39;ll miss that. And, being one who can literally lose hours in literary circumstances, I always hate to see a bookstore go away.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It looks like A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in SF&#39;s Opera Plaza is going down, too. Cody&#39;s &amp; Clean both have had extensive reading series. Cody&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114745877262096930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114745877262096930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147458720000#c114745877262096930' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Ingersoll</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14661806559842869136</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1812046502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114745406839564432</id><published>2006-05-12T13:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T13:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Ron,I was under the impression that the student...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;I was under the impression that the student population’s kept the Ave relatively stable in recent years. Many of the shops from my late ‘80s student days are still there, even some from yours, miraculous survivors of the Bay Area’s creeping Manhattanization. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Book-wise, the Bay Area’s become the last stand of the independents against the big chains. The new Cody’s in Union </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114745406839564432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114745406839564432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147454040000#c114745406839564432' title=''/><author><name>rodney k</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10515711262628729312</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1389059265"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114745073087314204</id><published>2006-05-12T12:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T12:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>one of spicer&#39;s previously unpublished poems (a sh...</title><summary type='text'>one of spicer&#39;s previously unpublished poems (a short one called &quot;walruses&quot;) that was dug up at the Bancroft is in issue 4 of small town--a magazine i&#39;ve never ever ever heard of before and only felt it my duty to promote here for the sake of that spicer poem. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.sundress.net/smalltown/order.htm</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114745073087314204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114745073087314204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147450680000#c114745073087314204' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18315356369259909084</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277623651"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114744996227815842</id><published>2006-05-12T12:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T12:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Scott and Curtis,Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi are...</title><summary type='text'>Scott and Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kevin Killian and Peter Gizzi are working on a multi-volume Spicer for (I think) Wesleyan UP. There is indeed a good chunk of unpublished poems there, most of which were found in the boxes of Spicer&#39;s papers that came from Blaser to the Bancroft library. I believe there will be separate volumes for the essays, the plays, and the letters. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m married to a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114744996227815842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114744996227815842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147449960000#c114744996227815842' title=''/><author><name>Taylor Brady</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09012539106879124292</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-403237288"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114744788888077554</id><published>2006-05-12T11:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T11:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Black Sparrow published the collected books of Spi...</title><summary type='text'>Black Sparrow published the collected books of Spicer 30 years ago.  There are a few stray poems, but I don&#39;t know about &quot;comprehensive&quot;--is there a cache of work I don&#39;t know about?  Has Robin Blaser been hiding it under his hat?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Cody&#39;s had lost its identity as a bookstore years ago.  Fred Cody designed the store on the corner as a big translucent emporium, with the help desk in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114744788888077554'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114744788888077554'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147447860000#c114744788888077554' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114744640203044254</id><published>2006-05-12T11:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T11:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, moving post . . . your personal reminiscences...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, moving post . . . your personal reminiscences are fascinating, and I look forward to more.  The recollections about Ken Irby and the Jack Spicer were great-- Does anyone know when that comprehensive, collected Spicer is due out?  I cherish my first edition copy of his chap &quot;A Book of Music&quot;, I found a bunch of Spicer essays in Jacket &#39;99 which I&#39;m off to read.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114744640203044254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114744640203044254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147446360000#c114744640203044254' title=''/><author><name>Scott Glassman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09765668936962074730</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1630916886"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114737734725204309</id><published>2006-05-11T15:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T15:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ps Aldon --oops, the &quot;Under Albany&quot; reference suff...</title><summary type='text'>ps Aldon --&lt;BR/&gt;oops, the &quot;Under Albany&quot; reference suffices to answer my question.&lt;BR/&gt;cheerio, what</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737734725204309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737734725204309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147377300000#c114737734725204309' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114737563063673149</id><published>2006-05-11T15:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T15:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Cody&#39;s on Telegraph will be missed, but perhaps mo...</title><summary type='text'>Cody&#39;s on Telegraph will be missed, but perhaps more for sentimental reasons than for its poetry section, whose commitment to small press publishers had diminished over the past several years. Moe&#39;s new poetry section expands and contracts in conformance with some mysterious law of its own. And the used section remains the delight it has always been.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for the People&#39;s Republic, I have </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737563063673149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737563063673149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147375620000#c114737563063673149' title=''/><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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114737368650208469</id><published>2006-05-11T14:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T14:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Logan,why be quite so dismissive of a place you ev...</title><summary type='text'>Logan,&lt;BR/&gt;why be quite so dismissive of a place you evidently do not live?  I will admit I don&#39;t even know what Hot Topic is; but I feel reasonably sure when next I manage to get back to Berkeley, history will remain -- playing its peekaboo as usual, not really a version of anything, weirdly original.  Or a close facsimile.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Aldon,&lt;BR/&gt;for those of us not in the know, who is the &quot;you&quot; of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737368650208469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737368650208469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147373640000#c114737368650208469' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114737170454608112</id><published>2006-05-11T14:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T14:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m sure Berkeley has changed greatly over the yea...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m sure Berkeley has changed greatly over the years. Now it&#39;s just a big hippie-version of HOT TOPIC, strip malls, Starbucks, and Barnes &amp; Nobles.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737170454608112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114737170454608112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147371660000#c114737170454608112' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18315356369259909084</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277623651"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114736850773226933</id><published>2006-05-11T13:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T13:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>and it was just months ago that a fellow behind th...</title><summary type='text'>and it was just months ago that a fellow behind the counter in Moe&#39;s was remembering how you used to come in the store to sell books when you needed cash.  I was buying a copy of your UNDER ALBANY, and we got to talking about you -- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But this is devastating news.  Cody&#39;s was one of the great discoveries when I moved to the Bay Area, and it has remained one of the few places I always </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736850773226933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736850773226933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147368480000#c114736850773226933' title=''/><author><name>Aldon Lynn Nielsen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02149592761314695817</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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1409052359"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114736747993311191</id><published>2006-05-11T13:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T13:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually I now remember that was Yeats who said th...</title><summary type='text'>Actually I now remember that was Yeats who said that all the philos. a man needs can be found in Berkeley.  Now I see that perhaps Spicer was punning on that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s been fifteen years since I looked at that, now it&#39;s coming back in shards, cracked pot that I am.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736747993311191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736747993311191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147367460000#c114736747993311191' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114736692739436034</id><published>2006-05-11T13:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T13:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, could you explain the influence of Maoism in ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, could you explain the influence of Maoism in that period and your own relationship to it at the time and now?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have walked through Berkeley a couple of times.  I suppose you know it was named after the Irish Bishop and philosopher.  Berkeley&#39;s poem about spreading education to the west is doggerel, but I have been told it graces the gate at Sather Gate?  Or is somewhere close by?&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736692739436034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736692739436034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147366920000#c114736692739436034' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114736494830811838</id><published>2006-05-11T12:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-05-11T12:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Great post.. Concerning this speculation “and by t...</title><summary type='text'>Great post.. Concerning this speculation&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; “and by the fall of 1965, every kid who thought (or whose parents thought) that political protest in behalf of free speech was a dreadful idea had decided to attend college elsewhere.”  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the changing of the identity and the type of applicants to UC Berkeley can be traced before that to the 1960 protests of the House Un-American </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736494830811838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114735137341947203/comments/default/114736494830811838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html?showComment=1147364940000#c114736494830811838' 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/2006/05/when-george-oppen-anyone-could-have.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114735137341947203' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114735137341947203' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 11, 2006"/></entry></feed>