<?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.post3529957891216076847..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/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.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-563950299069815234</id><published>2009-03-11T16:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T16:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I listened to most of the reading on Feb 23rd...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I listened to most of the reading on Feb 23rd. I was delighted and happy to hear you and watch you perform your work. But I put it aside because of distractions, waiting for the right time for the last piece, the piece from VOG (the Voice of God, aka these days as the Voice-over Guy) for Larry Eigner. The right time was just now. I&#39;m glad I heard that piece separate--very emotional and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/563950299069815234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/563950299069815234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1236802140000#c563950299069815234' 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='32' height='23' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_n2Wex_QRk70/R8WsKZZ0emI/AAAAAAAAAG0/RaDXpHkOIbA/S220/2008_January_Debbie%27s%2BLee%2Band%2BBobby.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-31911688850135415</id><published>2009-02-26T01:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T01:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lovely reading. Louise, that&#39;s one of my favorite ...</title><summary type='text'>Lovely reading. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Louise, that&#39;s one of my favorite things abt Ron&#39;s work--the way it invites the world in, interacts with it, comes from it and feeds back out to it, wakes up experience. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis, I&#39;ve thought that about some sections of the work, but reading the books in order really brings out the formal distinctness even of those sections that didn&#39;t seem to have it. At the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/31911688850135415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/31911688850135415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235628960000#c31911688850135415' title=''/><author><name>Cannot Exist</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10167824836001706644</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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1617347097"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-921805322731743664</id><published>2009-02-23T00:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-23T00:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve had a hardcover from day one too.I like sturd...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve had a hardcover from day one too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like sturdy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do wish it had a jacket.  I do wish I&#39;d mylared the book even without a jacket.  You see, the gray boards of the hardcover picks up dirt, grease, what have you, very efficiently. My copy, well read, and well read again (and again) shows very clearly darkened marks of where my fingers and palms have held the boards while </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/921805322731743664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/921805322731743664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235367240000#c921805322731743664' 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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 23, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4576423929074913649</id><published>2009-02-22T20:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T20:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Instead ofI am watching Cloris Leachman in a crock...</title><summary type='text'>Instead of&lt;BR/&gt;I am watching Cloris Leachman in a crockohdile that ate mankind flick..&lt;BR/&gt;      Lake Placid 2&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;a copy of The Alphabet is via am.cum for $23  some discount, huh?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;send me a proof of your knew book&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and I will correct the spelling!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hang in!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/4576423929074913649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/4576423929074913649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235353140000#c4576423929074913649' 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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3029334722387047498</id><published>2009-02-22T20:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T20:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,You can get the hardback directly from the ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You can get the hardback directly from the U. of Alabama website. Those really are intended for libraries (hence no book jacket), and I only know of one other individual besides myself who has one -- Samuel R. Delany. And his was a present from someone.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/3029334722387047498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/3029334722387047498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235352660000#c3029334722387047498' 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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7161291842384507657</id><published>2009-02-22T19:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T19:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>hi ron,i have just experienced the video of your r...</title><summary type='text'>hi ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i have just experienced the video of your reading and want to write and say, congratulations, but as well, because the reading is still fresh, offer some observations on the impact it had on me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i guess, that i was not fully attentive until the &#39;paradise&#39; section, as your reading was very fast in the earlier sections, so the work was rolling very fast - the language </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/7161291842384507657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/7161291842384507657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235350380000#c7161291842384507657' title=''/><author><name>Louise</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00134209058300460374</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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1993933462"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5292638992401981648</id><published>2009-02-22T17:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T17:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron:  I listened to the whole video this morning w...</title><summary type='text'>Ron:  I listened to the whole video this morning while making breakfast.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I need to get a copy of the book, but I want the hardcover, not the paperback.  Bookstores are so stupid--they never know whom to order it from, or how to go about it.  Maybe I should contact Alabama directly--?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Again, listening to these selected parts, I always have the feeling that all your work is </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/5292638992401981648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/5292638992401981648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235340240000#c5292638992401981648' 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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6482695365544589040</id><published>2009-02-22T15:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T15:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>this is wonderful--i admire you and your talent an...</title><summary type='text'>this is wonderful--i admire you and your talent and acument so very much--thanks for posting this and for being the great friend to poetry that you are--</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/6482695365544589040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/6482695365544589040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235333160000#c6482695365544589040' 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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-578568357"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2411673534202933637</id><published>2009-02-22T10:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T10:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>well, Ron,thanks for this... my introduction to &quot;R...</title><summary type='text'>well, Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thanks for this... my introduction to &quot;Ron Silliman&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as soon as I can get my &lt;BR/&gt; computer-management team&lt;BR/&gt;to figure out how to get this to play!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and the Rachel Blau-DuPleisis piece also...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;she&#39;s no &quot;slouch&quot; ...either. an &quot;oldie-goldie...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(I went to elementary school with a Blau... Bettie Blau, here in D.C. &lt;BR/&gt;about 1947-1952&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/2411673534202933637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/2411673534202933637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235316120000#c2411673534202933637' 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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-641940013417038559</id><published>2009-02-22T07:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-22T07:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fine reading, Ron - thanks for posting.Don</title><summary type='text'>Fine reading, Ron - thanks for posting.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Don</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/641940013417038559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3529957891216076847/comments/default/641940013417038559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html?showComment=1235304960000#c641940013417038559' 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='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/2009/02/video-of-my-reading-last-tuesday-at.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3529957891216076847' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3529957891216076847' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-926068283"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 22, 2009"/></entry></feed>