<?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.post5568974018748310107..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/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>58</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3741473426941639872</id><published>2008-12-13T12:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T12:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not a cowboy. I only rode a horse once, and de...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not a cowboy. I only rode a horse once, and definitely prefer an automobile.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My mistake in filing Eigner, some thirty years ago, was to put him into the category of the feeble-minded.  That is, when his disease was mentioned, I thought it was a mental disease of some kind.  I was probably not paying attention, or maybe the actual disease wasn&#39;t mentioned.  Striped tulips originally </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3741473426941639872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3741473426941639872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1229189280000#c3741473426941639872' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5924999170445749360</id><published>2008-12-10T21:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T21:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I actually didn&#39;t mean to say that it had &quot;nothing...</title><summary type='text'>I actually didn&#39;t mean to say that it had &quot;nothing&quot; to do with it--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Well, there is an ASPECT of Eigner as &quot;invalid&quot; (in some respects) that informs his poetry. All parts of a poet&#39;s life inform his poetry, make it what it IS. Eigner lived a certain way, it produced a certain element in his poetry. The idea that this is the dominant, or even pathetic, element in his art is fucking </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/5924999170445749360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/5924999170445749360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228963440000#c5924999170445749360' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8365066520032078683</id><published>2008-12-09T09:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T09:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Stroudsburg.  Near Delaware Water Gap.</title><summary type='text'>Stroudsburg.  Near Delaware Water Gap.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8365066520032078683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8365066520032078683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228833060000#c8365066520032078683' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3694412949457843935</id><published>2008-12-09T06:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T06:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>it&#39;s not (really) about &quot;Larry Eigner&quot;  much less ...</title><summary type='text'>it&#39;s not (really) about &quot;Larry Eigner&quot;  much less &quot;all about you&quot;....  and  just look at your essay!  seeing so many &#39;contitonal&#39;  isms...     should, might have, I suppose, although, I couldn&#39;t, I probably, should have,   ....   two things:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;my inheretid-from-my-grandfather&#39;s &#39;stash&#39;  1929 first edition of CAVENDER&#39;S HOUSE  which opens:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Into that house where no man went, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3694412949457843935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3694412949457843935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228821720000#c3694412949457843935' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7430752272408365467</id><published>2008-12-09T03:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T03:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,I can&#39;t speak for anyone, much less the shad...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can&#39;t speak for anyone, much less the shade of Larry Eigner -- I only met him once, and then very casually, though his work has been a touchstone of sorts for me ever since I came across it and spent some time with it more years ago than I care to remember.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Plus, it would be ridiculous, not to mention self-righteous as all get out, to pretend that I had the right to an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/7430752272408365467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/7430752272408365467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228813080000#c7430752272408365467' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 09, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2720885515466169607</id><published>2008-12-08T18:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T18:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I came from a small town in Eastern Pennsylvania. ...</title><summary type='text'>I came from a small town in Eastern Pennsylvania.  I don&#39;t think I set foot in a city until I was at least twenty.  When I did, I was mortified, and am still somewhat at a loss in regards to city values, especially the value of victims, and the whole victim mentality that has been set up as the new way to value literature (race, gender, class, and now, disability). I suppose in some way I&#39;m </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/2720885515466169607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/2720885515466169607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228779420000#c2720885515466169607' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8965023389106058075</id><published>2008-12-08T00:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T00:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you, Kirk!Gosh, you&#39;re neat!:)</title><summary type='text'>Thank you, Kirk!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Gosh, you&#39;re neat!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;:)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8965023389106058075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8965023389106058075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228715400000#c8965023389106058075' title=''/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12130438006583799672</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-253862874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4767028195499090615</id><published>2008-12-07T12:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T12:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>JUST LUCK&amp;amp; probablyalso fortunate-lygoingon ou...</title><summary type='text'>JUST LUCK&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp;amp; probably&lt;BR/&gt;also fortunate-&lt;BR/&gt;ly&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;going&lt;BR/&gt;on our various&lt;BR/&gt;others more&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;patient &lt;BR/&gt;with our-&lt;BR/&gt;selves&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;--for Steve</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/4767028195499090615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/4767028195499090615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228672500000#c4767028195499090615' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1603200875993516730</id><published>2008-12-07T03:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-07T03:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, shame on you, this time, anyways.  Larry E....</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, shame on you, this time, anyways.  Larry E. should be a huge inspiration to everybody if for this reason alone: Without that physical mobility, and without being able to much articulate stuff in person, he was a poet who could not easily travel all over the country and self-promote.  His humility, perseverance, and dignity makes much of our entire fashion/&quot;reality&quot; culture show look quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/1603200875993516730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/1603200875993516730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228638180000#c1603200875993516730' title=''/><author><name>Steve</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12130438006583799672</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-253862874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7926812276020742012</id><published>2008-12-05T13:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T13:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>well, Kirb  &quot;shoot first then aim &quot;... that&#39;s the ...</title><summary type='text'>well, Kirb  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;shoot first then aim &quot;... that&#39;s the American Way...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;well, jus&#39; don&#39;t (continue to) &quot;go off&quot; (or &quot;get off&quot;)&lt;BR/&gt;half cocked&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;         that&#39;s my &quot;job&quot;!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/7926812276020742012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/7926812276020742012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228501800000#c7926812276020742012' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4741205486540292381</id><published>2008-12-05T13:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T13:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I appear to have stepped on a huge land-mine here....</title><summary type='text'>I appear to have stepped on a huge land-mine here. I was responding in real time to Ron&#39;s question about how I had received Eigner.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I simply said I hadn&#39;t read him, but that years ago in Fagin&#39;s class at Naropa, his name had surfaced.  Fagin was a great professor -- I don&#39;t think he still teaches, but I don&#39;t know.  He gave us hundreds of names. It was an embarrassment of riches.  Coming</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/4741205486540292381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/4741205486540292381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228501080000#c4741205486540292381' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3126140918624537935</id><published>2008-12-05T08:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T08:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy ---Yes, I think you&#39;re probably right. Or, at...</title><summary type='text'>Andy ---Yes, I think you&#39;re probably right. Or, at least, I agree with you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3126140918624537935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3126140918624537935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228483500000#c3126140918624537935' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2429167284018713004</id><published>2008-12-04T23:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T23:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You&#39;re quite right. One should call this stuff out...</title><summary type='text'>You&#39;re quite right. One should call this stuff out. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And then, I think with people like Kirby, stop. Until next time. Argumentation gives credibility to the views of someone who really isn&#39;t committed to his stated views (usually), and I do feel a need to maintain the distinction between the seriousness (the need to be taken seriously) of the hatred and cruelty and the lack of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/2429167284018713004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/2429167284018713004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228452420000#c2429167284018713004' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6395173025632153903</id><published>2008-12-04T17:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T17:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy --&quot;Rankling&quot; is one thing, but deliberately b...</title><summary type='text'>Andy --&quot;Rankling&quot; is one thing, but deliberately being hateful and cruel is another. I wouldn&#39;t want to be categorized as part of a &quot;diseased group&quot; as a person or a poet, and I&#39;m sure you wouldn&#39;t either. And Eigner is not here to defend himself.  Yes, it&#39;s all done as an amusement, like you say---and that makes it all even worse.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Saying nothing at some point means you&#39;re (we&#39;re) </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/6395173025632153903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/6395173025632153903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228431240000#c6395173025632153903' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-369200992709978817</id><published>2008-12-04T17:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T17:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Are any of these poems FUNNY?  I got the impressio...</title><summary type='text'>Are any of these poems FUNNY?  I got the impression back in the day (1977) that humor was not his primary appeal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;With Spicer, you do have some more humor, but it&#39;s unreliable.  You never know quite what&#39;s funny.  Or at least I never know quite what&#39;s funny.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe he didn&#39;t, either.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One writer he reminds me a lot of is Georg Hamann.  He&#39;s funny, too, but nobody quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/369200992709978817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/369200992709978817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228429920000#c369200992709978817' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5911872933835448930</id><published>2008-12-04T16:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T16:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Eigner&#39;s Collected Poems is forthcoming from Stanf...</title><summary type='text'>Eigner&#39;s &lt;B&gt;Collected Poems&lt;/B&gt; is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/5911872933835448930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/5911872933835448930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228425480000#c5911872933835448930' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6184043430205357419</id><published>2008-12-04T15:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T15:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What I said is that when I was 19 or so Larry Fagi...</title><summary type='text'>What I said is that when I was 19 or so Larry Fagin introduced me to Eigner. Fagin liked Eigner. I didn&#39;t get it, and went on.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am now 52, and haven&#39;t spent much time in poetry. My ongoing interest is humor (the few poets I&#39;ve really read -- Edward Lear, Corso, Codrescu, and yes to some extent Billy Collins, are all to an important extent humorists -- the poets that I tend to &quot;get&quot; are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/6184043430205357419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/6184043430205357419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228422840000#c6184043430205357419' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8413761182488495019</id><published>2008-12-04T15:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T15:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>To ranklevia public insensitivityis Kirby&#39;s game. ...</title><summary type='text'>To rankle&lt;BR/&gt;via public insensitivity&lt;BR/&gt;is Kirby&#39;s &lt;I&gt;game&lt;/I&gt;. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;contrast&lt;BR/&gt;Conrad&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;enthusiasm&lt;/I&gt;. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Spicer collected is important, among other reasons, as a potential antidote to the lack of urgency, the avoidance of risk, and the &lt;I&gt;smoothness&lt;/I&gt;, evenness of tone, surface, etc. of much of the otherwise &lt;I&gt;interesting&lt;/I&gt; (&quot;post-avant&quot;) poetry being written </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8413761182488495019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8413761182488495019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228421040000#c8413761182488495019' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8328361700638943673</id><published>2008-12-04T14:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T14:09:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>By the way:I mean Larry Eigner&#39;s poetry is as unnc...</title><summary type='text'>By the way:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I mean Larry Eigner&#39;s poetry is as unnconnected to his physical condition as Alexander Pope&#39;s poetry.  Think about the parallels; don&#39;t just TYPE SHIT, Kirby.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8328361700638943673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/8328361700638943673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228417740000#c8328361700638943673' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6767906638602954858</id><published>2008-12-04T13:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T13:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The question that might have the more useful answe...</title><summary type='text'>The question that might have the more useful answer is not how much Kirby makes, but rather, is he tenured? My guess is that he&#39;s adjunct.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/6767906638602954858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/6767906638602954858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228415640000#c6767906638602954858' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3759597356529393678</id><published>2008-12-04T12:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T12:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Also, Eigner is not exactly a well-known name.How...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Also, Eigner is not exactly a well-known name.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How many places is Eigner taught?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wasn&#39;t aware that the distribution of a text was the estimation of the value of the text.  You&#39;ve taught me something. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I did google him and realized that both Silliman and Bernstein are in his corner. When I wrote what I wrote it wasn&#39;t a commendation of my attitude. Try not to be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3759597356529393678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/3759597356529393678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228410780000#c3759597356529393678' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1831814784539513775</id><published>2008-12-04T11:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T11:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, I don&#39;t think that&#39;s the only thing that stu...</title><summary type='text'>Well, I don&#39;t think that&#39;s the only thing that students think of me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, Eigner is not exactly a well-known name.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How many places is Eigner taught?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I did google him and realized that both Silliman and Bernstein are in his corner.  When I wrote what I wrote it wasn&#39;t a commendation of my attitude.  Try not to be such self-righteous pricks if it&#39;s possible for you.  I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/1831814784539513775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/1831814784539513775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228407300000#c1831814784539513775' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1473146176839269282</id><published>2008-12-04T09:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T09:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I actually wasn&#39;t aware he was a professor.  I sea...</title><summary type='text'>I actually wasn&#39;t aware he was a professor.  I searched his name, and &#39;rateyourprofessors.com&#39; came up; a student writes:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;he dosent teach he wastes time and money. he dosent know what he is doing and all he talks about in class is not what we are talking about at all&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What&#39;s your salary, Kirby?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/1473146176839269282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/1473146176839269282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228401720000#c1473146176839269282' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-732823236388187456</id><published>2008-12-04T08:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T08:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>hey Georgie   / Ron  thankswhen my friend  first v...</title><summary type='text'>hey Georgie   / Ron  thanks&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when my friend  first visited Larry (he told me the story when here visiting in 2000 A.D. /  they immediately &quot;hit it off)  (I won&#39;t tell you who the visitor was)  Larry sure had a sense of humor..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in reply to [...]&#39;s question, Larry replied:  &quot;my greatest desire is to be able to wipe my own ass.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/732823236388187456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/732823236388187456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228396260000#c732823236388187456' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5088783056778451734</id><published>2008-12-04T07:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T07:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Georgie,I very nearly rejected that missive of Kir...</title><summary type='text'>Georgie,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I very nearly rejected that missive of Kirby&#39;s on the grounds of hate speech. It is profoundly a sick thing to have written. But then I thought it better that people actually see what the attitude is. I wonder how the people of New York feel about their tax dollars supporting someone with these attitudes in their classrooms?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/5088783056778451734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5568974018748310107/comments/default/5088783056778451734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html?showComment=1228394640000#c5088783056778451734' 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/2008/12/is-it-unseemly-to-review-book-one-has.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5568974018748310107' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5568974018748310107' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry></feed>