<?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.post1789025416440096766..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/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.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>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3345884918773475712</id><published>2007-12-05T08:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-05T08:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I do like that list paragraph, Tom.  Keep the stru...</title><summary type='text'>I do like that list paragraph, Tom.  Keep the struggle angle going.  I can see the effects on our public policy even in today&#39;s papers.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3345884918773475712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3345884918773475712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196860680000#c3345884918773475712' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Nester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12135073788017492685</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://danielnester.com/photos/BloggerProfile3.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-482907402"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-516519066877947339</id><published>2007-12-04T23:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T23:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>clearly a left-coast situationist cabal making a b...</title><summary type='text'>clearly a left-coast situationist cabal making a bid for the official verse stronghold at knopf...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/516519066877947339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/516519066877947339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196828460000#c516519066877947339' title=''/><author><name>tmorange</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13540323590390887131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/45/106550526_bed2a37673_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-348262623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5056194098755983665</id><published>2007-12-04T22:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T22:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>curiously, jasper bernes himself and three of the ...</title><summary type='text'>curiously, jasper bernes himself and three of the five listmakers attending to his book have direct or close affiliations with uc berkeley, while the publisher&#39;s name is a latin palindrome (rough translation: &quot;we go into the circle at night and are consumed by fire&quot;) that guy debord used as the title for his sixth and final film.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i know these things, of course, by virtue of being a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/5056194098755983665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/5056194098755983665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196826420000#c5056194098755983665' title=''/><author><name>tmorange</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13540323590390887131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/45/106550526_bed2a37673_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-348262623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5056658498385635133</id><published>2007-12-01T14:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T14:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel,Points taken. As to the second, I hadn&#39;t re...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Points taken. &lt;BR/&gt;As to the second, I hadn&#39;t read your comment that precedes mine when I wrote the latter, so I wasn&#39;t referring to you and Steve. I was addressing the perceived background to Don&#39;s comment--the idea that friends promoting friends automatically equals aesthetic dishonesty. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Andy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/5056658498385635133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/5056658498385635133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196537520000#c5056658498385635133' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8578633416434523660</id><published>2007-12-01T14:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T14:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ange,If that&#39;s Ange Mlinko, and you read this, wou...</title><summary type='text'>Ange,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If that&#39;s Ange Mlinko, and you read this, would you backchannel me? I have a poetry proposal that may or may not interest you...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Andy&lt;BR/&gt;ndm_g@yahoo.com</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/8578633416434523660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/8578633416434523660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196537100000#c8578633416434523660' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-703163139611401518</id><published>2007-12-01T11:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T11:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Daniel,I&#39;m pretty glad to have risen above a child...</title><summary type='text'>Daniel,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m pretty glad to have risen above a childhood where the only reading material in the house was &lt;I&gt;Redbook&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Cycle&lt;/I&gt; magazines (in the bathroom, of course). And the only music was, well, whoever the Kelly Clarkson of the 70&#39;s happened to be. And my mom smokes like a chimney in front of my kids, and my dad makes dirty jokes in front of my kids, and still works with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/703163139611401518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/703163139611401518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196526840000#c703163139611401518' title=''/><author><name>AM</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15676295258572128286</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/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1398205339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1807494962750285148</id><published>2007-12-01T09:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T09:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey Andy --Just a response to those as-ifs:I don&#39;t...</title><summary type='text'>Hey Andy --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Just a response to those as-ifs:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know if it matters if &quot;only&quot; upper-middle-class private schooled/indoctrinated poets write and recommend this kind of AlternaPoetry that, among other things, tacks on public policy rewards onto its process note-dependent poetry. I will say &quot;most&quot;; that, in my experience of nearly 15 years as an editor and poet, most poets from</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/1807494962750285148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/1807494962750285148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196518920000#c1807494962750285148' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Nester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12135073788017492685</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://danielnester.com/photos/BloggerProfile3.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-482907402"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2356496056128216892</id><published>2007-11-30T22:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T22:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading the comments here, I&#39;m struck by the, for ...</title><summary type='text'>Reading the comments here, I&#39;m struck by the, for me, paradoxical blur between institutionally sanctioned recommendations and the more statistical or survey-style gathering that is &quot;Attention Span.&quot;  I contributed this year, but unlike my contributions in previous years, I took the title seriously and listed what was holding my attention since the turn of the year.  Being honest about that meant </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/2356496056128216892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/2356496056128216892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196478660000#c2356496056128216892' title=''/><author><name>Providence</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15109740673270128370</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/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1283548929"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9021362728721068211</id><published>2007-11-30T17:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T17:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/9021362728721068211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/9021362728721068211'/><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='32' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/images/phanero.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' 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 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3482494539653479165</id><published>2007-11-30T16:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T16:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Simon, I think that, despite the sometimes apparen...</title><summary type='text'>Simon, I think that, despite the sometimes apparently random quality to New York publishers&#39; selections, they do tend to defend their choices vigilantly, to make sure that the Indians don&#39;t take over the fort.  The &quot;point men&quot; are the heads of academic institutions, conservative critics, and old line editors who all speak the same language--the MFA system, the prize circuit, the grant committees,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3482494539653479165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3482494539653479165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196456880000#c3482494539653479165' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3097510604030397650</id><published>2007-11-30T15:39:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T15:39:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>as if:--only the &quot;upper and upper-middle class, wh...</title><summary type='text'>as if:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--only the &quot;upper and upper-middle class, white, private school over-educated&quot; would ever write these kinds of poetries&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--knowing and liking writers personally is, by definition, in contradiction to a genuine love of their writing&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;these may be areas of relevant critique, but they&#39;re not well-founded enough to stand as the dogmatic assumptions they&#39;ve become.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3097510604030397650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3097510604030397650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196455140001#c3097510604030397650' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3162500901657082254</id><published>2007-11-30T15:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T15:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Me and Steve are Facebook friends, and I think he&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Me and Steve are Facebook friends, and I think he&#39;s a brilliant dude, so please don&#39;t think it&#39;s personal; I also like a lot of the respondents&#39; work and most of the work on the lists themselves.  I just think it&#39;s disappointing to see a lack of a real, eclectic collective taste in the list.  It all seems very lockstep to me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3162500901657082254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3162500901657082254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196455140000#c3162500901657082254' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Nester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12135073788017492685</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://danielnester.com/photos/BloggerProfile3.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-482907402"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3584832144498652719</id><published>2007-11-30T14:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T14:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I find the comments on Ron&#39;s blog rather unfair to...</title><summary type='text'>I find the comments on Ron&#39;s blog rather unfair to the list. It&#39;s &quot;attention span&quot; -- what is holding the attention of the listmakers.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s not a &quot;recommended&quot; list, a &quot;please buy these&quot; list, so comments about logrolling seem a little beside the point. No one is trying to trick you! Daniel seems to think it &quot;legitimizes&quot; something he scorns, but I just don&#39;t see it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One thing -</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3584832144498652719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/3584832144498652719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196450760000#c3584832144498652719' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4916455318847972736</id><published>2007-11-30T10:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T10:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One other factor that may have some influence on w...</title><summary type='text'>One other factor that may have some influence on what gets on the list(s) is the deadline. Not to suggest that Jasper Bernes&#39; book doesn&#39;t belong in the top spot, but it was released around the same time the lists were being compiled, and the timing may have meant it was top-of-mind for some respondents, as a newly received/read book, perhaps sitting on their desks as they answered. (I know the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/4916455318847972736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/4916455318847972736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196437440000#c4916455318847972736' 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='24' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna_halloween.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2848118751173891019</id><published>2007-11-30T10:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T10:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dusie is run by Susana Gardner by her lonesome, bu...</title><summary type='text'>Dusie is run by Susana Gardner by her lonesome, but each year she invites all the poets who have previously published in the online magazine to make chapbooks to exchange among themselves, which she then also publishes as e-books. That group is called the &quot;Dusie Kollektiv.&quot; This year there are 65 poets on the list, i.e. 65 books &quot;in play&quot; (though not all had been mailed out when AS was gathering </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/2848118751173891019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/2848118751173891019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196437020000#c2848118751173891019' 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='24' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna_halloween.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2242217085161512019</id><published>2007-11-30T10:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T10:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m with Daniel Nester on this one, and what both ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m with Daniel Nester on this one, and what both lists also have in common is plain old recommending work by one&#39;s friends.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/2242217085161512019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/2242217085161512019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196436780000#c2242217085161512019' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</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/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8276257688734125607</id><published>2007-11-30T09:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T09:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>All distro issues aside, with which I agree, the l...</title><summary type='text'>All distro issues aside, with which I agree, the list strikes me as yet another scroll of the same upper and upper-middle class, white, private school over-educated, process note-dependent poetry that has staticed-up the airwaves since 1970 or so.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Make no mistake: If the indie publishers are now on many of the same even playing fields as the so-called majors, and I agree they are and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/8276257688734125607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/8276257688734125607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196434440000#c8276257688734125607' title=''/><author><name>Daniel Nester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12135073788017492685</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://danielnester.com/photos/BloggerProfile3.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-482907402"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1573907868428899343</id><published>2007-11-30T09:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-30T09:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s a little free association:The survey is abo...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s a little free association:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The survey is about what writers recommend, rather than what readers buy.  That&#39;s certainly not a measure of what sales figures reflect (although it may turn out to be the case).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Poetry traditionally is a loss leader for major publishing houses--it has nearly always been thus--with a few notable exceptions such as Bukowski and Olds and Rumi </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/1573907868428899343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1789025416440096766/comments/default/1573907868428899343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html?showComment=1196432520000#c1573907868428899343' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/11/photo-by-ben-friedlander-steve-evans.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1789025416440096766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1789025416440096766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2007"/></entry></feed>