<?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.post116256001888778064..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/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image 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href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116306879730195340'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 09, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116286228809191553</id><published>2006-11-06T20:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-06T20:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Phaney,B minusYou won&#39;t get through graduate schoo...</title><summary type='text'>Phaney,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;B minus&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You won&#39;t get through graduate school with that tripe.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116286228809191553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116286228809191553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162862280000#c116286228809191553' 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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116281642412602405</id><published>2006-11-06T07:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-06T07:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link 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value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116276839512414987</id><published>2006-11-05T18:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-05T18:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, &quot;w.&quot;, I always wondered what the great thing ...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, &quot;w.&quot;, I always wondered what the great thing about Great Britain was...  you&#39;re right, America is a class-bound society, just like the old country...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We just don&#39;t have any class here at all...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;After Tolkien got his MFA from Montana U, he marvelously conjured up a beautiful fairy tale which was popular on both sides of the water...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can tell from your response </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116275802368284214</id><published>2006-11-05T15:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-05T15:20:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>wow curtis, I always wondered what the great thing...</title><summary type='text'>wow curtis, I always wondered what the great thing about America was... you&#39;re right, America is a class-less society...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;no class at all...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Bukowski actually went to college) - but otherwise, what you&#39;re saying, is that the&#39;simple&#39; people don&#39;t have a voice by way of Literature in Europe... and that&#39;s exactly right...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;after Rimbaud graduated from Princeton, he wrote </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-534740713"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116269145066038820</id><published>2006-11-04T20:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-04T20:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The great thing about America is you can become se...</title><summary type='text'>The great thing about America is you can become self-educated and self-accomplished.  In Europe, it doesn&#39;t happen.  Too class-bound.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Imagine a young working-class tough in Birmingham or LIverpool aspiring to be a poet published by Faber.  No no no, little urchin, you can&#39;t do that!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But even a bloke like Bukowski can become a successful writer here.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Eat your hearts,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116269145066038820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116269145066038820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162691400000#c116269145066038820' 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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116267832126330805</id><published>2006-11-04T17:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-04T17:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>hey Ron,when I was your student at UCSD, there was...</title><summary type='text'>hey Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when I was your student at UCSD, there was all this hype about &#39;Language Poetry&#39; - something new - I was all ears - never dawned on me that the Antins knew you from before - and yes, School of Quietude was quietly being taught - but, I mean, this was a school for scientists - how harmful could the artists be? - and with Angela Davis behind us - and the student who self-immolated</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116267832126330805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116267832126330805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162678320000#c116267832126330805' title=''/><author><name>w.</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01330509508149332419</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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-534740713"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116264500072614675</id><published>2006-11-04T07:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-04T07:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Zeke,I was very very lucky. There were almost no b...</title><summary type='text'>Zeke,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was very very lucky. There were almost no books in my house, save for the Book of Knowledge (a low-end encyclopedia), Reader&#39;s Digest Condensed Novels and a copy of the Decameron with dirty woodcuts that my mother still doesn&#39;t think I know about. But I was raised immediately North of Berkeley. I could (and did, many, many times) walk to Cody&#39;s &amp; Moe&#39;s.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116264500072614675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116264500072614675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162644960000#c116264500072614675' 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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116262468989038164</id><published>2006-11-04T02:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-04T02:18:00.000-05:00</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/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116262468989038164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116262468989038164'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116261681206222397</id><published>2006-11-04T00:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-04T00:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>These last two posts are incredibily facinating to...</title><summary type='text'>These last two posts are incredibily facinating to me, Ron.  You were born only two years before me, but it could have been light years.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In 1969 you published work in &lt;I&gt;Poetry&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Catipillar&lt;/I&gt; and that very same year I got drafted into the army.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I&#39;ve loved poetry my whole life, but I only heard of Jack Spicer through your blog, and I&#39;ve still not read any </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116261681206222397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116261681206222397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162616760000#c116261681206222397' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116258351967213765</id><published>2006-11-03T14:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-03T14:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It was McAleavey who went to Cornell, not Melnick....</title><summary type='text'>It was McAleavey who went to Cornell, not Melnick. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116258351967213765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116258351967213765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162583460000#c116258351967213765' 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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116257611882713970</id><published>2006-11-03T12:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-03T12:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, You mention David Melnick as a grad student a...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You mention David Melnick as a grad student at Berkeley in 1968, who after(?) publishing &lt;I&gt;Eclogs&lt;/I&gt; went to Cornell to finsh a PhD, then worked for the SF Chronicle. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m as certain as memory can be that in the fall of 1974 Melnick taught an English 1B class at UC Berkeley, and that one of the students was me.  Among the poetry books for the class were the anthologies &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116257611882713970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116257611882713970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162576080000#c116257611882713970' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 03, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116257047363878752</id><published>2006-11-03T11:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-03T11:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I inadvertently put my Bromige anecdote in the blo...</title><summary type='text'>I inadvertently put my Bromige anecdote in the blog thread of yesterday&#39;s post.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116257047363878752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116256001888778064/comments/default/116257047363878752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html?showComment=1162570440000#c116257047363878752' 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/2006/11/david-bromige-focus.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116256001888778064' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116256001888778064' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 03, 2006"/></entry></feed>