<?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.post4662662166626570581..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/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.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-1955231601859203437</id><published>2007-10-12T16:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-12T16:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Paul Auter is on a short list of mine: the worst a...</title><summary type='text'>Paul Auter is on a short list of mine: the worst authors I&#39;ve ever read. (Only books actually finished go on this list; the ones tossed away in disgust early on don&#39;t make it) He is certainly the worst writer I have ever read who has been called &quot;Americas best living novelist&quot;. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His works are empty and full of one cliche after another. He handles dialogue with all the grace of a first </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/1955231601859203437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/1955231601859203437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1192219680000#c1955231601859203437' title=''/><author><name>Now in:</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15488503061176536190</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='http://hi.zpok.hu/maxigas/pick/painting/gargoyle-notre_dame.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659529725"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-962246774601731247</id><published>2007-07-16T11:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T11:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a real quick question:what is the poem you me...</title><summary type='text'>Just a real quick question:&lt;BR/&gt;what is the poem you mention (an excerpt?) but without a title or any other reference?&lt;BR/&gt;The other two beneath it are already with the titles. Thanks.&lt;BR/&gt;k8</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/962246774601731247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/962246774601731247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1184598660000#c962246774601731247' title=''/><author><name>Kasia</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04093958789543995809</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1647481372"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8318636484075557238</id><published>2007-05-19T16:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-19T16:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>heres another berrigan translation, this one from ...</title><summary type='text'>heres another berrigan translation, this one from rilke:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;autumns day&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;lord, it is time.  summer was very great.&lt;BR/&gt;Now cast your shadow upon sundials.&lt;BR/&gt;Let winds remind meadows it is late.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;mellow now the last fruits on the vine.&lt;BR/&gt;allow them only two more southern days.&lt;BR/&gt;hasten them to fullness, and press&lt;BR/&gt;the last heavy sweetness through the vine.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8318636484075557238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8318636484075557238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1179608040000#c8318636484075557238' title=''/><author><name>Tinker Greene</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16667761674945417190</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-204239496"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9026148407406138698</id><published>2007-05-15T21:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T21:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Other writers whose poetry influences their prose ...</title><summary type='text'>Other writers whose poetry influences their prose include Margaret Atwood and Anne Michaels.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/9026148407406138698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/9026148407406138698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1179279420000#c9026148407406138698' title=''/><author><name>KATE EVANS</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16478737570632377733</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/blogger/333/1716/1600/kate_small.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-246813710"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 15, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3064845145699656946</id><published>2007-05-08T22:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T22:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>would heraclitus sayit is impossible to love the s...</title><summary type='text'>would heraclitus say&lt;BR/&gt;it is impossible to love the same person once&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;prose poetry poetry prose&lt;BR/&gt;in the end&lt;BR/&gt;only the writer knows&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this is a good post&lt;BR/&gt;i am not familiar with the names&lt;BR/&gt;so i learn something&lt;BR/&gt;but i have struggled between the two genres both in reading and in writing&lt;BR/&gt;a good struggle&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;presently am reading cormac mccarthy&#39;s  the road&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/3064845145699656946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/3064845145699656946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178676480000#c3064845145699656946' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8430809751605759995</id><published>2007-05-07T19:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T19:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is impossible to love the same person twice.thi...</title><summary type='text'>It is impossible to love the same person twice.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this seems like the kind of innocuous&lt;BR/&gt;yet goiterous supposition which is popular among some&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;not too far from&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Frankly, it takes some courage, having become famous and known as a stylist in prose, to allow this last poem back into print.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;These things take me aback&lt;BR/&gt;in my world of transparent glass prose where</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8430809751605759995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8430809751605759995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178580300000#c8430809751605759995' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='27' height='32' src='http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/imago/2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3658292434673041808</id><published>2007-05-07T18:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T18:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Berrigan used everyone, and stole from anyone.  Th...</title><summary type='text'>Berrigan used everyone, and stole from anyone.  That was part of his &quot;method.&quot;  He was deliberately naughty, and that very much captures the spirit of recklessness and &quot;nerve&quot; that he deduced from O&#39;Hara.  Running down an alley to elude a mugger.  You just run like Hell.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Malanga did it too, but perhaps somewhat less honestly.  The Sonnets is so &quot;pop&quot; with its bits and fragments flying by</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/3658292434673041808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/3658292434673041808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178577780000#c3658292434673041808' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2940019335327702713</id><published>2007-05-07T16:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T16:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s translated lines from Rimbaud and others t...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s translated lines from Rimbaud and others throughout Ted&#39;s (Berrigan) poems. One of the first things I called him on when we first met in the latye 1960s), and he was gracious enough to concede the point and ask why not? It was Ted that got me to understand the &quot;cento&quot; form.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/2940019335327702713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/2940019335327702713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178569020000#c2940019335327702713' 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='32' height='30' src='http://www.yourmanfriday.com/backdoor/Lally9.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-190281292858347520</id><published>2007-05-07T15:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T15:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Petit is actually a high-wire artist, not a poet. ...</title><summary type='text'>Petit is actually a high-wire artist, not a poet. His book on walking between the twin towers is in print, and there&#39;s a great recent children&#39;s book about him as well.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/190281292858347520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/190281292858347520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178565360000#c190281292858347520' title=''/><author><name>dbuuck</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01168078423144600856</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-160349318"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8159994080839776942</id><published>2007-05-07T13:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T13:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If I&#39;m not mistaken, Berrigan also translated Rimb...</title><summary type='text'>If I&#39;m not mistaken, Berrigan also translated Rimbaud&#39;s Le bateau ivre.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8159994080839776942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8159994080839776942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178559540000#c8159994080839776942' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8932085369916593038</id><published>2007-05-07T13:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T13:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah.  I found an interesting 9/11 piece by this &quot;co...</title><summary type='text'>Ah.  I found an interesting 9/11 piece by this &quot;consumate&quot; New Jorker which contained portents of evil:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;We all knew that this could occur. For many years we spoke of it. But now, since the tragedy occurred, is it many worse, than somebody could itself have presented. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The last attack on American soil had taken place 1812. For what occurred today, we do not have an example. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8932085369916593038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/8932085369916593038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178559180000#c8932085369916593038' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='18' src='http://static.flickr.com/29/98495715_9b4a202fcf_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5919385796140079855</id><published>2007-05-07T12:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T12:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>How odd. I just finished reading Auster&#39;s _City of...</title><summary type='text'>How odd. I just finished reading Auster&#39;s _City of Light_ last night!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. I&#39;m not all that familar with his translations (or his own poetry, for that matter), but the concerns in his fiction with authorship (the move from a quest for originality--&quot;making it new&quot;--into play with other&#39;s texts, and historical documents), language,  formal innovation, and materiality/objects seems to have </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/5919385796140079855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/5919385796140079855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178556780000#c5919385796140079855' title=''/><author><name>kfd313</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01639339748894956092</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2030273302"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5137159741162253382</id><published>2007-05-07T12:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T12:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy to be wrong about that</title><summary type='text'>Happy to be wrong about that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/5137159741162253382'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/5137159741162253382'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178556120000#c5137159741162253382' 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/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9042507779178962026</id><published>2007-05-07T12:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T12:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,I am not sure where you saw that The Random Ho...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am not sure where you saw that The Random House Book of 20th Century Poetry was out of print, but I just bought a new copy at Brazos Bookstore three weeks ago. And Powells also lists it as new &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9780394717487-0&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;, as does abebooks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/9042507779178962026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/9042507779178962026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178555820000#c9042507779178962026' title=''/><author><name>François</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06559138766982217784</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/360749881_43aef0cb9e_b.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1777839896"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2289293585288446538</id><published>2007-05-07T11:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T11:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, you wouldn&#39;t count the Heine translation &quot;Der...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, you wouldn&#39;t count the Heine translation &quot;Der Asra&quot; in the Collected Berrigan? The notes don&#39;t say it was published, but apparently he did read it often.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/2289293585288446538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/2289293585288446538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178553300000#c2289293585288446538' title=''/><author><name>Samuel Vriezen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16229066450439148225</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1125742735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311961042139095716</id><published>2007-05-07T11:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T11:39:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Auster really an innovative -- or all that impo...</title><summary type='text'>Is Auster really an innovative -- or all that important -- novelist?  I think *The New York Trilogy* is interesting, but it&#39;s not terribly original.  Robbe-Grillet was doing the pomo-metafictional-detective thing in French, while Ishmael Reed had basically invented the form for Americans.  Peter Ackroyd did his spin on it in *Hawksmoor*, which is far more interesting than Auster&#39;s trilogy.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/5311961042139095716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/5311961042139095716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178552340000#c5311961042139095716' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3351889503684175126</id><published>2007-05-07T11:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T11:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Writing is what happens when you are doing somethi...</title><summary type='text'>Writing is what happens when you are doing something else.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Heh.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/3351889503684175126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/3351889503684175126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178550540000#c3351889503684175126' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='18' src='http://static.flickr.com/29/98495715_9b4a202fcf_t.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9171353045682190653</id><published>2007-05-07T10:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T10:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I wannabe be a dotcom &quot;poet president&quot;and anything...</title><summary type='text'>I wannabe be a dotcom &quot;poet president&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and anything i&#39;ve written, as working class schizophrenic riff raffer, is better than &quot;In Memory of Myself&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/9171353045682190653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/9171353045682190653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178548200000#c9171353045682190653' title=''/><author><name>Jesse</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15430253706561827669</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://listenlight.net/media/jess1020.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1299334260"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1505532503307834347</id><published>2007-05-07T09:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T09:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s a tendency to see writers in terms of one&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s a tendency to see writers in terms of one&#39;s own agenda, or even in terms of a classical formula for apprenticeship and maturity.  I think Auster looked to the French, perhaps, early on, because he simply wanted to be diffrerent than his American contemporaries, to find a new model that would set his work apart.  In the French pre-Modernists and Modernists, he saw specific things.  One of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/1505532503307834347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4662662166626570581/comments/default/1505532503307834347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html?showComment=1178546220000#c1505532503307834347' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-was-time-when-serious-novelist.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4662662166626570581' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4662662166626570581' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2007"/></entry></feed>