<?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.post2087176304898914391..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/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.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>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7085073089111735368</id><published>2010-02-09T19:13:33.155-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-09T19:13:33.155-05:00</updated><title type='text'>some (most) of my best (poet) friends are dead!&#xa;I ...</title><summary type='text'>some (most) of my best (poet) friends are dead!&lt;br /&gt;I forget your point...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I forget ... most often!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;snow here... I must protect my &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;appliances!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;go figure.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/7085073089111735368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/7085073089111735368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265760813155#c7085073089111735368' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2120342029806860281</id><published>2010-02-09T18:10:59.359-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-09T18:10:59.359-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I never can figure out why the wagging tongues nee...</title><summary type='text'>I never can figure out why the wagging tongues need to call song writers “poets” or novelists “poets” when these song writers and novelists aren’t writing poems. What is it about poetry, huh? Seems like Bolaño was a poet when he was writing poems and a novelist when he was writing novels and I’m glad he chose the latter most of the time. (I wanted so much to like his poetry.) And by the way </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/2120342029806860281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/2120342029806860281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265757059359#c2120342029806860281' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2Wex_QRk70/SsP0EponqaI/AAAAAAAAA78/2MnshxkUOLY/S220/bb%40lumenbrite+by+CesarIvan+(2).jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 09, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1561631915181383582</id><published>2010-02-07T13:52:45.693-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T13:52:45.693-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe, Confronted with the fact that Bolano says he ...</title><summary type='text'>Joe, Confronted with the fact that Bolano says he read Ted Berrigan, you&amp;#39;re talking about kidnapping and swarminess.  He wrote a sonnet styled after Berrigan which mentions Berrigan twice. He praises William S. Burroughs as well as Rimbaud and the Surrealists.  Here&amp;#39;s a quote from Savage Detectives: &amp;#39;apocryphal poems by bpNichol, John Giorno, John Cage (A Year from Monday), Ted </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/1561631915181383582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/1561631915181383582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265568765693#c1561631915181383582' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1987551104273115902</id><published>2010-02-07T00:48:36.211-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-07T00:48:36.211-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, I have no problem with suggesting influences:...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, I have no problem with suggesting influences: that is creative reading. It reveals a lot about the reader and the poem as a free-floating text and besides is a lot of fun. What I object to is treating such suggestions as &lt;i&gt;evidence&lt;/i&gt; in some Lit Crit sense, when they are really being used as markers in the Great Tribal Game. The goal of the Game is not creative reading but to kidnap </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/1987551104273115902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/1987551104273115902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265521716211#c1987551104273115902' 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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-587702189437922022</id><published>2010-02-06T19:30:12.993-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T19:30:12.993-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is a magnificently intelligent bit of blog po...</title><summary type='text'>This is a magnificently intelligent bit of blog posting.  Best of year.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/587702189437922022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/587702189437922022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265502612993#c587702189437922022' title=''/><author><name>Camouflage Lenses</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01511029457067047838</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-926308882"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3783569039280860978</id><published>2010-02-06T16:28:49.465-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T16:28:49.465-05:00</updated><title type='text'>JH, I have no wishful thinking here except that I ...</title><summary type='text'>JH, I have no wishful thinking here except that I don&amp;#39;t wish to argue about where the goalposts should be for protecting unoriginality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. a lake infinite as Loch Ness&lt;br /&gt;or tragic and turbid as Lake Balatón&lt;br /&gt;This ocean,&lt;br /&gt;2. braver than anyone,&lt;br /&gt;Tougher than anything.&lt;br /&gt;etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then you throw in a little William Carlos Williams..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a splash quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3783569039280860978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3783569039280860978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265491729465#c3783569039280860978' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8357144291697326737</id><published>2010-02-06T12:38:47.141-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T12:38:47.141-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Before anyone takes Ian&amp;#39;s comment about &amp;quot;...</title><summary type='text'>Before anyone takes Ian&amp;#39;s comment about &amp;quot;Thing Language&amp;quot; to the bank it would be worth reading the actual poem--the first in the sequence, at least:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This ocean, humiliating in its disguises&lt;br /&gt;Tougher than anything.&lt;br /&gt;No one listens to poetry. The ocean&lt;br /&gt;Does not mean to be listened to. A drop&lt;br /&gt;Or crash of water. It means&lt;br /&gt;Nothing.&lt;br /&gt;It&lt;br /&gt;Is bread </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/8357144291697326737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/8357144291697326737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265477927141#c8357144291697326737' 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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8340399960894713906</id><published>2010-02-06T04:10:38.133-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-06T04:10:38.133-05:00</updated><title type='text'>forgot Roa Bastos &amp;amp; Benedetti - first tier imh...</title><summary type='text'>forgot Roa Bastos &amp;amp; Benedetti - first tier imho</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/8340399960894713906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/8340399960894713906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265447438133#c8340399960894713906' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6755033359889993924</id><published>2010-02-05T21:53:56.873-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T21:53:56.873-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That poem is so much like Thing Language it looks ...</title><summary type='text'>That poem is so much like Thing Language it looks like he had the book open in front of him when he wrote it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Savage Detectives transports Bolano to what I would consider the faction of the second tier of 20th Century Latin American novelists that choked on its own cleverness: Cortazar, Cabrera Infante, Carpentier, in some respects Fuentes, immensely talented but prone to pastiche </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/6755033359889993924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/6755033359889993924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265424836873#c6755033359889993924' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3513833241803925463</id><published>2010-02-05T16:26:21.610-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T16:26:21.610-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Another poetry work from Bolaño is &amp;quot;Tres&amp;quot...</title><summary type='text'>Another poetry work from Bolaño is &amp;quot;Tres&amp;quot;. More info (in Spanish) here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.sololiteratura.com/bol/bolaobrtresres.htm&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Tres. Ed. El Acantilado, Barcelona, 2000. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dos poemarios y un largo poema de distintas épocas recoge este volumen titulado “Tres”: “Prosa del otoño en Gerona”, “Los neochilenos” y “Un paseo por la literatura”. Tres recorridos por </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3513833241803925463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3513833241803925463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265405181610#c3513833241803925463' title=''/><author><name>progdocs</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00983314889886270882</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1755721897"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-227630448391037028</id><published>2010-02-05T13:45:37.583-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T13:45:37.583-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;gt;Not a lot of poetry to show for a life’s work ...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;gt;Not a lot of poetry to show for a life’s work . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is, though, Bolaño&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;La Universidad Desconocida,&lt;/i&gt; 420 or so pages in the Spanish edition: poetry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note, too, that I made the Bolaño / Spicer connection over a year back, &lt;a href=&quot;http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com/2009/01/roberto-bolao-and-jack-spicer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/227630448391037028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/227630448391037028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265395537583#c227630448391037028' title=''/><author><name>John Latta</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01215219604418390000</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-403606533"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4351410563964305490</id><published>2010-02-05T13:31:59.761-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T13:31:59.761-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent,&#xa;&#xa;You are right &amp;amp; I stand (or sit) correc...</title><summary type='text'>Kent,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You are right &amp;amp; I stand (or sit) corrected. The mind at times knows not what the fingers are typing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/4351410563964305490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/4351410563964305490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265394719761#c4351410563964305490' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3142233887469204384</id><published>2010-02-05T12:50:21.602-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T12:50:21.602-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;gt;envuelto in las plumas&#xa;&#xa;envuelto *en* las plum...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;gt;envuelto in las plumas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;envuelto *en* las plumas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to be pedantic, or anything...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3142233887469204384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3142233887469204384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265392221602#c3142233887469204384' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3603175519776231739</id><published>2010-02-05T12:02:54.418-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T12:02:54.418-05:00</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/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3603175519776231739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/3603175519776231739'/><author><name>Laura</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14072829609896851192</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-319785762"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2003922558226026199</id><published>2010-02-05T11:59:17.448-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T11:59:17.448-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for this post, Ron - a Bolaño nut, I was a ...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for this post, Ron - a Bolaño nut, I was a little underwhelmed by The Romantic Dogs too - it&amp;#39;s enjoyable, stunning in places, but pretty slight overall. I started wondering, as you say, whether maybe Bolaño&amp;#39;s need to self-identify as a poet was more important than any actual poetry he created, especially if it enabled him to write the fiction he did. That fiction contains some of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/2003922558226026199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/2003922558226026199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265389157448#c2003922558226026199' title=''/><author><name>Rob</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12052286287306109429</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-236737005"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8527967032415575173</id><published>2010-02-05T11:57:02.027-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T11:57:02.027-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I come to your defense, though you don&amp;#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I come to your defense, though you don&amp;#39;t need it, as one who fell hard for Spicer&amp;#39;s work on first readings back in the &amp;#39;60s and for Bolano&amp;#39;s first ecountered in more recent years. And we all have permission to make connections wherever we see them, or feel them etc. So go for it. (And why wouldn&amp;#39;t he have known Spicer&amp;#39;s work since he cops to knowing Ted Berrigan&amp;#39;s</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/8527967032415575173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/8527967032415575173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265389022027#c8527967032415575173' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1UZ-EklSnDQ/S2HgKpTlWBI/AAAAAAAAAZs/KIXfn5grGEA/S220/1:28:10.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5690615072284663674</id><published>2010-02-05T10:21:36.502-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T10:21:36.502-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Resurrection&amp;quot; sounds and feels a bit li...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Resurrection&amp;quot; sounds and feels a bit like Bob Marley&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Misty Morning.&amp;quot; Bolaño&amp;#39;s poetry was resurrected in his novels which read like nightmares.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/5690615072284663674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/5690615072284663674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265383296502#c5690615072284663674' title=''/><author><name>Mary Jo Malo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18148588310769074332</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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1737322265"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-10180007368392074</id><published>2010-02-05T09:07:03.349-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T09:07:03.349-05:00</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/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/10180007368392074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/10180007368392074'/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4349181289531590989</id><published>2010-02-05T02:02:20.241-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-05T02:02:20.241-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What a delicious exercise in spurious logic, Ron. ...</title><summary type='text'>What a delicious exercise in spurious logic, Ron. You present an Englished version of a Bolaño poem that &amp;quot;both does and doesn’t sound just like Jack Spicer&amp;quot; (whatever &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; means), then you use the fact that it is a poem about poetry, &amp;quot;like so much of Spicer,&amp;quot; as a springboard to this absurdity: &amp;quot;One wonder’s just how well Bolaño might have known Spicer’s work.&amp;quot</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/4349181289531590989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2087176304898914391/comments/default/4349181289531590989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html?showComment=1265353340241#c4349181289531590989' 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/2010/02/roberto-bolano-often-is-characterized.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2087176304898914391' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2087176304898914391' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 05, 2010"/></entry></feed>