<?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.post116851605750632082..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/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.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-116870846021725079</id><published>2007-01-13T12:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-13T12:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I would happily open my shop to the public, if I c...</title><summary type='text'>I would happily open my shop to the public, if I could afford a street presence.  Rents in the Bay Area are running $2.25 a square foot, despite the decade-long recession in commercial real estate.  Landlords are &quot;holding the line.&quot;  There are commercial spaces here that have been vacant for 10 years or more, and the landlords just keep upping the ante, year after year.  What can you do?  (Go on </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116870846021725079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116870846021725079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168708440000#c116870846021725079' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116862023923600523</id><published>2007-01-12T11:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T11:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yep, Kingdom Books sounds charming.   Or better th...</title><summary type='text'>Yep, Kingdom Books sounds charming.   Or better than charming: intereesting and worth a visit and a big long browse in the poetry section. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But it&#39;s obviously not an an exemplar or model for other book stores.  Or if it is, then it is a signal of how troubled the poetry bookstore &quot;industry&quot; really is.  Ron gives the facts from which it can be readily inferred that Kingdom Books is a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116862023923600523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116862023923600523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168620180000#c116862023923600523' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116861454659425642</id><published>2007-01-12T10:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-12T10:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ok, I&#39;m sold.  Very very sweet to respond so nicel...</title><summary type='text'>Ok, I&#39;m sold.  Very very sweet to respond so nicely, Beth.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You and your store both sound great.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116861454659425642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116861454659425642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168614540000#c116861454659425642' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116856811587656519</id><published>2007-01-11T21:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T21:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kingdom Books: The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is...</title><summary type='text'>Kingdom Books: The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont is its three most isolated counties, and for the same reason the area with the lowest income and the highest beauty (well, okay, the most rustic beauty). A past governor named the region. Then novelist Howard Frank Mosher came along and named his fictional Vermont landscape &quot;Kingdom County.&quot; So how could we resist the Kingdom Books moniker?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116856811587656519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116856811587656519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168568100000#c116856811587656519' title=''/><author><name>Beth Kanell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08108922407270772577</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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1536942640"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116856571748888255</id><published>2007-01-11T20:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T20:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We&#39;re always chasing down independent presses, and...</title><summary type='text'>We&#39;re always chasing down independent presses, and recently featured &quot;newbies&quot; Crown Ring (Sara Owens) and Chester Creek (Bob Walp), both offspring of the U Alabama book arts MFA. As soon as I get decent photos on hand, we&#39;ll introduce Andrew Miller-Brown&#39;s Plowboy Press; Andrew works for Claire Van Vliet. Those are all fine-press presses; on the next rung up the ladder, we have plenty of poetry </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116856571748888255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116856571748888255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168565700000#c116856571748888255' title=''/><author><name>Beth Kanell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08108922407270772577</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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1536942640"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116856277241531448</id><published>2007-01-11T19:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T19:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Anonymity should count as a criterion -- a good bo...</title><summary type='text'>Anonymity should count as a criterion -- a good bookstore should allow a person to browse in anonymity.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like the sound of htis place, but I think if you made an appointment you&#39;d have to buy something.  Anonymity offers you the right to in and out without buying.  I think Powell&#39;s is just perfect ont hat score.  There are also three exits (each with a beeper).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think this </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116856277241531448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116856277241531448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168562760000#c116856277241531448' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116854493313823871</id><published>2007-01-11T14:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T14:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;are there more people reading than we thought? mo...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;are there more people reading than we thought? more clever people than us?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I have this thought when I travel through villages (especially in the Northeast.) In New Hampshire I stopped into a wonderful small bookstore. The poetry section was not very good, but their journals were wonderful -- it&#39;s like, dude, you stock Lungfull.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It would be nice if there were closer links </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116854493313823871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116854493313823871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168544880000#c116854493313823871' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1104587410"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116854141728555515</id><published>2007-01-11T13:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T13:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>you could do worse than to visit bookstores in ver...</title><summary type='text'>you could do worse than to visit bookstores in vermont.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;driving through in 05 i stopped in montpelier, which is made of gingerbread, for a stretch and was astounded at the number (and quality) of bookstores within two blocks of downtown (which was stamp-sized). the new books shop had a large poetry section curated beyond idiotdom (refreshing!), and there was a used shop </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116854141728555515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116854141728555515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168541400000#c116854141728555515' 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='32' height='32' src='http://lh3.google.com/_6SQBrtEu124/Rb6PNwpV5xI/AAAAAAAAADw/X6xmNGs9x8A/s1600/square%2Beyeball.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1291817752"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116854138647464913</id><published>2007-01-11T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T13:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We comic book geeks can get mylar bags for comics ...</title><summary type='text'>We comic book geeks can get mylar bags for comics at comic book shops and for records at record shops. Can poetry readers buy them at book shops?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116854138647464913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116854138647464913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168541340000#c116854138647464913' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-987189629"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116853848076564174</id><published>2007-01-11T13:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T13:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Geof, Thanks for the comment on the archiving mate...</title><summary type='text'>Geof, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks for the comment on the archiving material.  Ron&#39;s footnote criticizing plastic, appended as it was to a sentence about books in mylar, was confusing: I couldn&#39;t tell if Ron thought mylar was an okay or not okay method of protecting printed matter (books).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My understanding is that the inert plastics such as mylar are okay, but that regular ol&#39; plastic bags aren&#39;t so</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116853848076564174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116853848076564174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168538460000#c116853848076564174' 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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116852645125391981</id><published>2007-01-11T09:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T09:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,Sort of right about Mylar (a brand name of pol...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sort of right about Mylar (a brand name of polyethylene). Mylar is a plastic, of course, but an inert one. It doesn&#39;t degrade and PVC (for instance does). The degradation of &quot;ert&quot; plastics causes offgassing, and a buildup of those offgassed chemicals speeds up the degradation of paper, especially if the paper is acidic, as almost all paper between 1850 and 1990 or so was.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116852645125391981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116851605750632082/comments/default/116852645125391981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html?showComment=1168526400000#c116852645125391981' title=''/><author><name>Geof Huth</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348</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/2007/01/of-my-checklist-for-decent-poetry_11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116851605750632082' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116851605750632082' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-599696549"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 11, 2007"/></entry></feed>