<?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.post116523117269403878..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/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116537952578424842</id><published>2006-12-05T23:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T23:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I met kari because of Fran, my sister-in-law.  kar...</title><summary type='text'>I met kari because of Fran, my sister-in-law.  kari is one of those individuals who you never forget, because they are so unique, so complicated, with feet straddling a universe, a reality, that shimmers with vague tremors of recognition, known and yet unknown, in focus and yet hidden behind a veil of mystery. kari is gone from us way too soon, and yet lingers with that wry expression, that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116537952578424842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116537952578424842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165379520000#c116537952578424842' title=''/><author><name>Ann</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16328033600297033665</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-767307123"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116535666795058697</id><published>2006-12-05T17:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T17:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>just came home to the news and flu - here&#39;s part o...</title><summary type='text'>just came home to the news and flu - here&#39;s part of what I just posted:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And saddened by the news of kari edwards death while I was away - more on that soon. I was in the middle of thinking through a blog post in answer to a friend&#39;s sudden question out of the azure: &quot;What do you think happens to you after you die?&quot; when I returned from Amherst to the news on Eileen&#39;s blog. Meanwhile, go </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116535666795058697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116535666795058697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165356660000#c116535666795058697' title=''/><author><name>Lorna Dee Cervantes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09020619136188745312</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1018401473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116535512347980239</id><published>2006-12-05T16:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T16:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I hope someone will write a biography of Kari at s...</title><summary type='text'>I hope someone will write a biography of Kari at some point.  I argued with her a few times, but she was also pretty nice to me via backchannel.  I didn&#39;t understand why Kari came to the conclusions she did, or why she basically wanted to wipe out the whole notion of gender.  Perhaps a biographer would be able to place her poems inside of a context -- getting his childhood, and then her adult </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116535512347980239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116535512347980239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165355100000#c116535512347980239' 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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116532705605188276</id><published>2006-12-05T08:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T08:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I adore the small amount I&#39;ve read of edwards&#39; wor...</title><summary type='text'>I adore the small amount I&#39;ve read of edwards&#39; work; the Factory School book is some of the best stuff I&#39;ve read from the last few years. Zie was one of the poets I thought I&#39;d most like to meet sometime (and in the special category, &quot;poet and activist&quot;). This is altogether sad news.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116532705605188276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116532705605188276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165327020000#c116532705605188276' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116528373665238187</id><published>2006-12-04T20:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T20:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We published her a number of times in 88: A Journa...</title><summary type='text'>We published her a number of times in &lt;I&gt;88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry&lt;/I&gt;.  We would read something by her and it would hit us; we had to publish it.  I wish I could articulate better what that &quot;it&quot; was but I can&#39;t.  The feeling on reading one of those poems we took was like all the signs lining up in the right direction, like a lock snapping open.  We just liked it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116528373665238187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116528373665238187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165283700000#c116528373665238187' title=''/><author><name>Ian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14527010059097050667</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1417585811"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116526405065131525</id><published>2006-12-04T15:27:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T15:27:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I am in the same situation as Shanna. I read kari&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>I am in the same situation as Shanna. I read kari&#39;s poetry and interviews. I always felt that in my own particular way I always related to kari&#39;s ideas on the shifting subject, in relation to poetry but also to identity formation.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Something specfic l happens when a blogger dies. I used to wonder about this a lot. Seeing the last post at kari&#39;s blog signed as &quot;kari&quot; even if written by </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116526405065131525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116526405065131525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165264020001#c116526405065131525' title=''/><author><name>Ernesto</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11969105712582566329</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-987189629"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116525510460812754</id><published>2006-12-04T12:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T12:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you so much for your tribute to kari edwards...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you so much for your tribute to kari edwards and for highlighting kari&#39;s understanding of/against/through gender (and kari&#39;s ideas have influenced my own greatly); and thanks also for your thoughts about community. One of the toughest things in the world is for others to respect one&#39;s wishes, or to &lt;I&gt;ask&lt;/I&gt; before making assumptions and designating gender, racial, political or aesthetic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116525510460812754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116525510460812754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165255080000#c116525510460812754' title=''/><author><name>Jonathan David Jackson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03201582947527750685</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1957216601"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116525299673846156</id><published>2006-12-04T12:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T12:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i never met kariexcept on the internet&amp; through th...</title><summary type='text'>i never met kari&lt;BR/&gt;except on the internet&lt;BR/&gt;&amp; through the poems/prose&lt;BR/&gt;felt funny posting somehow&lt;BR/&gt;on my blog &lt;BR/&gt;am compelled&lt;BR/&gt;to mark&lt;BR/&gt;kari&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;passing&lt;BR/&gt;by signing &lt;BR/&gt;here:</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116525299673846156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116525299673846156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165252980000#c116525299673846156' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116525083349622767</id><published>2006-12-04T11:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T11:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This from Rachel Blau DuPlessis:Impossible news. I...</title><summary type='text'>This from Rachel Blau DuPlessis:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Impossible news. I loved hearing her in-your-face energy and incisive resistance at La Tazza (and yes--blown away by her fuck-you verbal twist-and-throw to the heckler), and I loved reading with her and Brenda at Robins Books. When she signed _Iduna_ for me, she crossed out the title and wrote NO GENDER. The work is powerful, inventive, and &quot;on&quot;--it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116525083349622767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116525083349622767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165250820000#c116525083349622767' 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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523825577015837</id><published>2006-12-04T08:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-04T08:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>kari&#39;s strength will be felt over and over by poet...</title><summary type='text'>kari&#39;s strength will be felt over and over by poets, artists, and activists alike!  When she read in Philadelphia recently with Brenda Iijima and Rachel DuPlessis it turned into one of the most potent readings I&#39;ve ever sat through, WOWWED!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When kari lived in Philadelphia many years ago I met her at the Painted Bride Arts Center as a man.  I&#39;m embarrassed that I no longer remember the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116523825577015837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116523117269403878/comments/default/116523825577015837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html?showComment=1165238220000#c116523825577015837' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/2006/12/kari-edwards-died-of-heart-failure-on.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116523117269403878' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116523117269403878' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2006"/></entry></feed>