<?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.post4246468851565859036..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/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image 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href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260383842995#c5100372589482845674' title=''/><author><name>Lemon Hound</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02339211884645310602</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='13' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UL0mKSPB5XU/SQsPcKKsd9I/AAAAAAAAA6k/1xJ-DhUiyI8/S220/eyes.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1137445930"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8066152328183396774</id><published>2009-12-08T23:17:23.393-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T23:17:23.393-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s all very clever but somewhere in al...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s all very clever but somewhere in all that I think the lyric voice has been killed, too.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hmmm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;word verification:    trout</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/8066152328183396774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/8066152328183396774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260332243393#c8066152328183396774' title=''/><author><name>0000000</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-26893888575644213</id><published>2009-12-08T20:28:03.542-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T20:28:03.542-05:00</updated><title type='text'>thank you Ron!</title><summary type='text'>thank you Ron!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/26893888575644213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/26893888575644213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260322083542#c26893888575644213' title=''/><author><name>Jennifer Bartlett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15931457867406555423</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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-547270347"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6949893339472129136</id><published>2009-12-08T20:19:52.055-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T20:19:52.055-05:00</updated><title type='text'>GOD&#xa;&#xa;whoever SHE may be&#xa;please&#xa;help us avoid &#xa;thes...</title><summary type='text'>GOD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;whoever SHE may be&lt;br /&gt;please&lt;br /&gt;help us avoid &lt;br /&gt;these fucking &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credentialists!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6949893339472129136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6949893339472129136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260321592055#c6949893339472129136' 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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5239188518579888370</id><published>2009-12-08T20:12:42.844-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T20:12:42.844-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steven,&#xa;&#xa;of course, I acknowledge the years of &amp;#3...</title><summary type='text'>Steven,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;of course, I acknowledge the years of &amp;#39;dictionary reading&amp;#39; and the tortuous vowel-squeezing to form a poem (if you can call it that?), very reminiscent of Cage&amp;#39;s syllable collection from literary works and their dizzying permutations according to some abstract &amp;quot;I Ching&amp;quot; pattern (as described in a 1979 essay by Kostelanetz): of course, the dedicated </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/5239188518579888370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/5239188518579888370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260321162844#c5239188518579888370' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1298240695450546574</id><published>2009-12-08T17:19:41.717-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T17:19:41.717-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Conrad,    &#xa;&#xa;Speaking of “cute,” what’s up wi...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Conrad,    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of “cute,” what’s up with your claim that &lt;i&gt;EUNOIA&lt;/i&gt; involved “scoping”out the dictionary several times and “cataloging” the univowelic words (without acknowledging anything more)?  In addition to that which you concede Bök did, he also did a little bit of writing too, didn’t he?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry to get rhetorical there with the questions.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/1298240695450546574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/1298240695450546574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260310781717#c1298240695450546574' 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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2898155563469238109</id><published>2009-12-08T15:28:47.345-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T15:28:47.345-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pam,&#xa;&#xa;I agree, and I feel embarrassed as a Canadia...</title><summary type='text'>Pam,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I agree, and I feel embarrassed as a Canadian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bök&amp;#39;s very glib, just too self-assured for my liking, and that comes from a notoriety and acclaim too easily won. That sort of thing happens in Canada: as Lord Moran, High Commissioner to Canada in the 80s, has noted. Anyone who stands out in any way is instantly dubbed a cultural hero or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2898155563469238109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2898155563469238109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260304127345#c2898155563469238109' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7204075956301673877</id><published>2009-12-08T15:28:43.900-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T15:28:43.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Re Christian Bok &amp;amp; Carmine Starnino: I watched...</title><summary type='text'>Re Christian Bok &amp;amp; Carmine Starnino: I watched this parley with great interest. If there&amp;#39;s any clash here, it&amp;#39;s between two writers possessing contrasting psychological/creative styles that need not be as dismissive of each other&amp;#39;s creative practices as they have been. The tension between them is palpable -- I don&amp;#39;t think they looked at each other through the whole hundred </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/7204075956301673877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/7204075956301673877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260304123900#c7204075956301673877' title=''/><author><name>Brian Campbell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3048/540/1600/767216/BC2MPP.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1565548225"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6086700797240944835</id><published>2009-12-08T14:51:44.659-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T14:51:44.659-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bok not even on my &amp;#39;raid-are&amp;#39;&#xa;&#xa;from what I...</title><summary type='text'>Bok not even on my &amp;#39;raid-are&amp;#39;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;from what I see&lt;br /&gt;he has hung himself at/in University&lt;br /&gt; and justifiably!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND PAM  HI!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hey y&amp;#39;all  published first pieces of mine out of Restoration Poems  about 1973&lt;br /&gt;   Cold Spring Journal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;say &amp;quot;hey&amp;quot; to Charlie...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;just a year or so ago I found out that Josh died...  maybe</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6086700797240944835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6086700797240944835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260301904659#c6086700797240944835' 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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6741189978250322145</id><published>2009-12-08T12:55:30.739-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T12:55:30.739-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I hope Kenward gets his paintings back!  Art crime...</title><summary type='text'>I hope Kenward gets his paintings back!  Art crime is the fourth largest category of crime world-wide.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6741189978250322145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6741189978250322145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260294930739#c6741189978250322145' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8882749516381239609</id><published>2009-12-08T12:39:29.986-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T12:39:29.986-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Can Poetry Mutter&amp;quot; -- whether typo or i...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Can Poetry Mutter&amp;quot; -- whether typo or intentional, you brought a smile to my face. Don&amp;#39;t change it!  Thanks for the link!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/8882749516381239609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/8882749516381239609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260293969986#c8882749516381239609' title=''/><author><name>Brian Campbell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3048/540/1600/767216/BC2MPP.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1565548225"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2889202203979004565</id><published>2009-12-08T12:26:05.478-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T12:26:05.478-05:00</updated><title type='text'>AYN RAND??/  Wow. some stuff for the Kirby.com fra...</title><summary type='text'>AYN RAND??/  Wow. some stuff for the Kirby.com frauds.  The poesy of shekels, the US Military, and laissez-faire economics, dewd.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bok&amp;#39;s comments were arrogant and misguided, and his techie-prose , like, bogus as his entire career.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay for Brown&amp;#39;s  commentary on Pynchon.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2889202203979004565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2889202203979004565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260293165478#c2889202203979004565' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2627198076885690462</id><published>2009-12-08T11:48:44.611-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T11:48:44.611-05:00</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/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2627198076885690462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2627198076885690462'/><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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6824709959930636686</id><published>2009-12-08T10:39:01.910-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T10:39:01.910-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bok&amp;#39;s comments probably reflect a lot of self-...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bok&amp;#39;s comments probably reflect a lot of self-doubt, at the least. Too bad.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Poets I assert are neither smarter nor lazier than any other group.  The distribution of &amp;quot;smarts&amp;quot; (whatever that is) and diligence is identical to any other avocation or profession.  What distinguishes poets is the avocation to make poetry....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6824709959930636686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6824709959930636686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260286741910#c6824709959930636686' 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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6713085531859366743</id><published>2009-12-08T10:26:06.534-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T10:26:06.534-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There&amp;#39;s other audio of Ronald Johnson around. ...</title><summary type='text'>There&amp;#39;s other audio of Ronald Johnson around.  A noteworthy recording is his reading with Jonathan Williams, recorded at the Guggenheim Museum, Feb. 17, 1976. Copies at Harvard and also the Academy of Am. Poets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video of RJ can be obtained from the American Poetry Archive in SF:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 25, 1985, in which he reads &amp;quot;The Garden,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Spire on the Death of L.Z.,&amp;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6713085531859366743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/6713085531859366743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260285966534#c6713085531859366743' 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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2054869989586786594</id><published>2009-12-08T10:20:00.809-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T10:20:00.809-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My immediate thought when I read this was that Chr...</title><summary type='text'>My immediate thought when I read this was that Christian should hang out with smarter poets. The smartest people I know are poets, and I know folks in pretty much every walk of life thanks to my &amp;quot;day job.&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2054869989586786594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/2054869989586786594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260285600809#c2054869989586786594' 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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5070352104157454214</id><published>2009-12-08T10:06:18.570-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T10:06:18.570-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Christian Bök&amp;#39;s ignorant comment reminds me of...</title><summary type='text'>Christian Bök&amp;#39;s ignorant comment reminds me of one I heard many years ago by C. K. Williams&amp;#39; that poetry was supposed to be boring. His was and is. Poets tend to be amazing people. Lazy I might accept, but using your brain is hard work.&lt;br /&gt;I am the wife of a poet, the daughter of an artist/writer, and step-daughter of an artist/writer/poet.&lt;br /&gt;He should be ashamed of himself.&lt;br /&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/5070352104157454214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4246468851565859036/comments/default/5070352104157454214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html?showComment=1260284778570#c5070352104157454214' title=''/><author><name>pam</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15052557146822827887</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/2009/12/photo-by-ben-friedlander-reading-carla.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4246468851565859036' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4246468851565859036' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1393650286"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry></feed>