<?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.post3125359861010344560..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/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.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>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2928476550582077593</id><published>2009-09-20T00:33:25.473-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T00:33:25.473-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, I knew of Jim&amp;#39;s death when it occurred. T...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, I knew of Jim&amp;#39;s death when it occurred. Tragic indeed.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/2928476550582077593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/2928476550582077593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253421205473#c2928476550582077593' 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/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4120724030747536357</id><published>2009-09-20T00:07:16.020-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-20T00:07:16.020-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Unstated irony of your post:  Carroll survived Gus...</title><summary type='text'>Unstated irony of your post:  Carroll survived Gustafson (wonderful poet, a handful of books published, no Wikipedia page) by 13 years.  Gustafson born 1949, died 1996.  (It took some time of web-searching to find that.)  Google books has an essay by Codrescu on Gustafson, which says that Gustafson died of a brain aneurysm.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/4120724030747536357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/4120724030747536357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253419636020#c4120724030747536357' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1191857075541365506</id><published>2009-09-19T07:59:36.909-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-19T07:59:36.909-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There is a balance between your posting, Ron, and ...</title><summary type='text'>There is a balance between your posting, Ron, and Tom&amp;#39;s comments that gives a simultaneous depth and perspective that is welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks ... to you both and most of all to Jim.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may have been a bumpy ride, but it was a great one.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/1191857075541365506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/1191857075541365506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253361576909#c1191857075541365506' title=''/><author><name>Issa&#39;s Untidy Hut</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B8FZWhBd6x0/SndTYgHH3aI/AAAAAAAAA8E/w5H60DhdL0U/S220/lilliput.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-926068283"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-845495014627620121</id><published>2009-09-17T22:24:10.966-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T22:24:10.966-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, thank for this piece of writing. Your combina...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, thank for this piece of writing. Your combination of personal recollections of Carroll with thoughts on his work and the changing contexts in which it&amp;#39;s been read form a meaningful tribute to the man. I really can&amp;#39;t see how anyone could think it disrespectful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people seem to take great pleasure in taking offense at your posts, with very little reason. Seems a bit </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/845495014627620121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/845495014627620121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253240650966#c845495014627620121' title=''/><author><name>Cy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03244437975709553222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b4REVX6FKWI/Sa8E3cS4AzI/AAAAAAAAACg/fOoyhFAQXL0/S220/pants.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1685508273"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7937071065931665064</id><published>2009-09-17T17:58:29.012-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T17:58:29.012-04:00</updated><title type='text'>full moon&#xa;difficulty&#xa;w the silence&#xa;&#xa;I don&amp;#39;t/di...</title><summary type='text'>full moon&lt;br /&gt;difficulty&lt;br /&gt;w the silence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t/didn&amp;#39;t know his work.. his poems or his music..I may have been in same spot at same time in Manhattan 1970 or so....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lots of rock n roll  lots of heroin  lots of &lt;br /&gt;a certain culture that is now romanticized via university and &amp;quot;Walt Disney&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I find that &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all art all poetry all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/7937071065931665064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/7937071065931665064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253224709012#c7937071065931665064' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5123457304386811918</id><published>2009-09-17T14:25:18.135-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T14:25:18.135-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WOW. &#xa;&#xa;It seems as though your postmortem &amp;quot;ap...</title><summary type='text'>WOW. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It seems as though your postmortem &amp;quot;appreciations&amp;quot; have a decided Forrest Gump aspect to them – we see Teddy Kennedy, Jim Carroll, and then next to them, somehow, lurking close to the shadows, Ron Silliman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not exactly Forrest Gump, though – more like Forrest Gump with a little shiv in his hand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am puzzled by why you would chose to berate </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/5123457304386811918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/5123457304386811918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253211918135#c5123457304386811918' title=''/><author><name>Arthur Q. Bryan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569</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/_HakneZ76Pf4/So8c3yFIjUI/AAAAAAAABSg/HIIMjXF4sgs/S220/goodman01_ArthurQBryan-live.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599458885"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7415046361809775975</id><published>2009-09-17T13:14:14.540-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T13:14:14.540-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One of many great pages on Cassie Carter&amp;#39;s Jim...</title><summary type='text'>One of many great pages on Cassie Carter&amp;#39;s Jim Carroll website concerns Carroll&amp;#39;s mid-1990&amp;#39;s poem, &amp;quot;Valentine,&amp;quot; in which all words were taken from a letter from a magazine (titled &lt;i&gt;Valentine&lt;/i&gt;) soliciting contributions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The web page links to the actual letter Carroll received, with his marks on it for the words he used to make his poem. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The poem </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/7415046361809775975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/7415046361809775975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253207654540#c7415046361809775975' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-990202553573446551</id><published>2009-09-17T06:37:36.342-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T06:37:36.342-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wikipedia still hasn&amp;#39;t corrected the date that...</title><summary type='text'>Wikipedia still hasn&amp;#39;t corrected the date that I suggested was more accurate.  I met Carroll when I first started going to St. Marks Poetry Project events and got the impression he was my age then (1948).  When I saw him again in Bolinas, he was a year younger than I was.  Unless Catholic elementary schools in the 1950s started at age five, he was more likely to be born in 1949 than later or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/990202553573446551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/990202553573446551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253183856342#c990202553573446551' title=''/><author><name>Rebecca</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02970460598359037559</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/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2037586659"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7487130603293318031</id><published>2009-09-17T05:25:59.864-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T05:25:59.864-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;Appreciated this. Yes, we&amp;#39;re &amp;quot;Livin...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Appreciated this. Yes, we&amp;#39;re &amp;quot;Living at the Movies&amp;quot; this week--back rows, spilt popcorn, shuffling feet maybe, but, thanks to Jim, attending ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My own sense is that maybe the Image of the Public Figure blinded many to the fact that it was all built on that old fashioned thing, the work.  Jim did indeed work hard at his work, the writing  (which after all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/7487130603293318031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3125359861010344560/comments/default/7487130603293318031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html?showComment=1253179559864#c7487130603293318031' title=''/><author><name>TC</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942</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/2009/09/i-only-met-kurt-cobain-twice-and-he-was.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3125359861010344560' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3125359861010344560' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1286882865"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2009"/></entry></feed>