<?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.post116878625963672066..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/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.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-116889657192735173</id><published>2007-01-15T16:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T16:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve met a surprising number of Ted Hughes enthusi...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve met a surprising number of Ted Hughes enthusiasts. Shocking number of Britons who think very little of any of Sylvia Plath but consider Hughes a great (and even &quot;experimental&quot;) poet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;qzrorvz</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116889657192735173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116889657192735173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168896540000#c116889657192735173' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116887726587438907</id><published>2007-01-15T11:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T11:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirk, you are missing my point, I think.Financial ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirk, you are missing my point, I think.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Financial misfeasance or malfeasance can happen in any business, as you say.  But when it happens at an individual bookstore, those impacted are limited to the those who do business ith that particular bookstore.  And when it happens at a publisher or press, it only impacts those who do business with that particular business organization.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116887726587438907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116887726587438907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168877220000#c116887726587438907' 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/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116885377694541836</id><published>2007-01-15T04:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T04:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Probably sounds better in Hebrew. (Should we wait ...</title><summary type='text'>Probably sounds better in Hebrew. (Should we wait for the King James version?)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I birth poems&lt;BR/&gt;like a fetus house flies&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Birthed is such an ugly word we almost never say it. Begat is lovely, has a pedigree. But &lt;I&gt;I birthed you&lt;/I&gt;? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I took birth away from you.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m keeping birth to myself.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Give up your birth.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But never &quot;I gifted birth to you&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116885377694541836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116885377694541836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168853760000#c116885377694541836' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116885140817657263</id><published>2007-01-15T03:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-15T03:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>As long as we&#39;re here, anyone want to stab a bit a...</title><summary type='text'>As long as we&#39;re here, anyone want to stab a bit at a comparative essay of AMS &amp; Ted Hughes?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(Isn&#39;t there some saying, &quot;By one&#39;s work one shall be known&quot;?) Hm.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Reckless &amp; unruly things.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116885140817657263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116885140817657263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168851360000#c116885140817657263' title=''/><author><name>barnes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18245811513028331681</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/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-427946957"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116883644383033114</id><published>2007-01-14T23:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T23:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve, the middleman&#39;s &quot;obvious efficiency&quot; in thi...</title><summary type='text'>Steve, the middleman&#39;s &quot;obvious efficiency&quot; in this case is exemplified by PGW: a company whose honesty is not in question, and whose operations do not appear to be in any way a cause of the AMS debacle. What the press accounts point to, on the contrary, is financial manipulation of an all-too-common type, of a kind by no means limited to &quot;middlemen&quot; in the terms you prescribe. Ideologies of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116883644383033114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116883644383033114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168836420000#c116883644383033114' 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/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116881882369931754</id><published>2007-01-14T18:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T18:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That AMS sounds like a mess.  A similar mess -- wi...</title><summary type='text'>That AMS sounds like a mess.  A similar mess -- without the overlay of criminal misconduct -- happened with last years bankruptcy of the Tower Records chain.  I read that distributors of music -- and I suppose the record companies who provided the product to the distributors and the artists who made it -- will or did end up with very little if anything. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I suppose the &quot;middleman&quot; -- to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116881882369931754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116881882369931754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168818780000#c116881882369931754' 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/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116881241110330854</id><published>2007-01-14T17:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T17:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>luckily the presses who work with wholesalers (whi...</title><summary type='text'>luckily the presses who work with wholesalers (which supply amazon, etc.) will get *some* of their xmas money. so if they have strong enough sales there and lines of credit with their printers &amp; other vendors, maybe. it makes me wanna cry, really. actually, i did that already.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116881241110330854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116881241110330854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168812360000#c116881241110330854' 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='32' height='21' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116880071422068824</id><published>2007-01-14T13:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T13:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The numbers are painfully clear: No one in publish...</title><summary type='text'>The numbers are painfully clear: No one in publishing makes the kind of operating profit you&#39;d need to ride out three months of lost sales and not suffer a cash flow hemorrhage. If the three months gone into bankruptcy limbo are a publisher&#39;s biggest season, it&#39;s even worse. Beg the printer for time and talk the authors into waiting for third quarter royalties and you still have a huge overhead </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116880071422068824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116880071422068824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168800660000#c116880071422068824' 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/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116879820576389264</id><published>2007-01-14T13:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T13:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Don&#39;t forget to double down on elevens, Ron!Word V...</title><summary type='text'>Don&#39;t forget to double down on elevens, Ron!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Word Verification Code: mwpoetw!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116879820576389264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116879820576389264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168798200000#c116879820576389264' title=''/><author><name>K. Silem Mohammad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02565830726695506296</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/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-156654236"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116879233256342329</id><published>2007-01-14T11:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-14T11:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i figured this would come up here eventually. the ...</title><summary type='text'>i figured this would come up here eventually. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the advance marketing collapse really does bite. as r. nash says, SSP is ok for the moment, but has relied heavily on PGW (a really supportive distributor that works hard to get indie publishers into the chains, etc.). frustratingly, the PGW division was doing OK itself, as were most of the indies that work with them. but now? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116879233256342329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116878625963672066/comments/default/116879233256342329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html?showComment=1168792320000#c116879233256342329' 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='32' height='21' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/hearing-creeley-with-steve-swallow.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116878625963672066' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116878625963672066' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 14, 2007"/></entry></feed>