<?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.post5570663444889259977..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/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.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>24</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4852798580878446107</id><published>2008-04-22T06:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-22T06:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Amazing, an important book has now won a major poe...</title><summary type='text'>Amazing, an important book has now won a major poetry prize in America.  Thank you, Ron.  Okay, I do believe a few other important poetry books have won important prizes here, but not many.  As everyone who knows me knows, I&#39;ve been a champion of what I call Aram Saroyan&#39;s &quot;infraverbal poems&quot; for years, and admire his &quot;lighght&quot; more than any other poem I know.  So I have just one quibble with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/4852798580878446107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/4852798580878446107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208861760000#c4852798580878446107' title=''/><author><name>bobgrumman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16289253159301582507</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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1438100233"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1641203111414220648</id><published>2008-04-21T15:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-21T15:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Good for you. A good choice. A happy choice. It st...</title><summary type='text'>Good for you. A good choice. A happy choice. It stirs the waters certainly. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As a side note: Cinco Puntos was looking forward to submitting Harvey Goldner&#39;s THE RESURRECTION OF BERT RINGOLD for the next year&#39;s consideration. Harvey&#39;s the guy who first turned me onto WCW back in the late 1950s. He would have liked at least to lurk in the shadows for some kind of news. But it turns out </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1641203111414220648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1641203111414220648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208805600000#c1641203111414220648' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_n2Wex_QRk70/R8WsKZZ0emI/AAAAAAAAAG0/RaDXpHkOIbA/S220/2008_January_Debbie%27s%2BLee%2Band%2BBobby.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-719846115068826930</id><published>2008-04-19T19:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T19:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When I saw Saroyan read at Poets&#39; House last year,...</title><summary type='text'>When I saw Saroyan read at Poets&#39; House last year, he had a few new works, a poem and some prose works, if I remember correctly.  Ergo, I would say that makes him a &quot;practicing poet.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He is not really even that old of a man, so one need not also assume that his poetic output has ceased.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Fantastic choice!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/719846115068826930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/719846115068826930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208646120000#c719846115068826930' title=''/><author><name>Mark</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12907078718133120295</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://home.comcast.net/~mark.lamoureux/spaceglider.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1006589168"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3641797115271238673</id><published>2008-04-19T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I ran an Aram Saroyan contest when I was editing R...</title><summary type='text'>I ran an Aram Saroyan contest when I was editing Real Poetik and he entered and of course he won.  I was surprised when he told me that the poems were written in 1968 since the contest took place in 2006!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So he&#39;s still shepherding the poems, and he&#39;s also writing plays that are getting produced.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His dad had staying power.  Why shouldn&#39;t the son?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What would be the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/3641797115271238673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/3641797115271238673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208626320000#c3641797115271238673' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6426984644678684991</id><published>2008-04-19T08:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T08:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael Lally..   YOU YET AROUND!add to &quot;that&quot; tho...</title><summary type='text'>Michael Lally..&lt;BR/&gt;   YOU YET AROUND!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;add to &quot;that&quot; those poets/artists who just &quot;dropped out&quot;  for decades  then returned to find....that&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;their kids are 30, their house is paid for, they &lt;BR/&gt;live on monthly SS check , they have health insurance (Medicare)...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and are still ( for the real &quot;what-it&#39;s-worth)&lt;BR/&gt;   producing&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am r=e=a=l=l=y  looking forward to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6426984644678684991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6426984644678684991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208607180000#c6426984644678684991' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6462679493735616490</id><published>2008-04-18T23:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T23:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Great choice Ron. And last time I checked Aram was...</title><summary type='text'>Great choice Ron. And last time I checked Aram was still writing poetry. I hate it when people presume a poet has stopped writing poetry because they haven&#39;t seen it published or heard it read, either because it isn&#39;t get published or read or because it is but in places they aren&#39;t looking. When acting became my day job and I moved to L. A. for the work, I got to meet and befriend Aram and it was</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6462679493735616490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6462679493735616490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208575980000#c6462679493735616490' 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='31' height='21' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_1UZ-EklSnDQ/R2NKsxZHm0I/AAAAAAAAADk/1ac3JBtd4SM/S220/Lally+smaller.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4524452945283481442</id><published>2008-04-18T21:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T21:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>mmmnnnmmmmelts in your mouthnot in your hand</title><summary type='text'>mmmnnnmmm&lt;BR/&gt;melts in your mouth&lt;BR/&gt;not in your hand</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/4524452945283481442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/4524452945283481442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208569800000#c4524452945283481442' title=''/><author><name>jh</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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8981561061590285044</id><published>2008-04-18T18:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T18:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This is, for sure, a terrific book, although, as o...</title><summary type='text'>This is, for sure, a terrific book, although, as others have pointed out, it has the advantage of having been important for a few decades before it was published.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Also, not to quibble, but rhyme is not the oldest literary device -- whatever that means. Or, at least, we have texts we call literature and texts we call poems that predate rhyme (which starts in the 10th c BC in China and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/8981561061590285044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/8981561061590285044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208559420000#c8981561061590285044' title=''/><author><name>Chris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06700221349311740958</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/47/115174336_41d6f91192_o.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1513120439"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2933040836250432700</id><published>2008-04-18T16:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T16:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There are enough awards for practicing poets to vi...</title><summary type='text'>There are enough awards for practicing poets to vie for , and I think it fitting that Saroyan’s spare efforts get a nod. The poems are resilient indeed.  They have resisted  oblivion , and it’s time recognition came               Saroyan’s way for  loving language enough to make exist in a new way. Now, if the MC5 can get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally,       that will be two bits of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/2933040836250432700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/2933040836250432700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208552160000#c2933040836250432700' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/R8sb8yZjEYI/AAAAAAAABE8/NrnjzFWxqP4/S220/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6267600204018783986</id><published>2008-04-18T14:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T14:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron could have also mentioned -- maybe should have...</title><summary type='text'>Ron could have also mentioned -- maybe should have mentioned -- that Saroyan&#39;s minimal poems are particularly, shall I say (to coin a word), &quot;reefereshing.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here&#39;s Clark Coolidge, in the lecture published in &lt;I&gt;Talking Poetics&lt;/I&gt;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I was once in Cambridge with Aram Saroyan who some of you may know of, who at that time was writing one-word poems. He would sit and smoke some </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6267600204018783986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6267600204018783986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208543820000#c6267600204018783986' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3653814723252674694</id><published>2008-04-18T14:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T14:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Junker has a good point about the age of the poems...</title><summary type='text'>Junker has a good point about the age of the poems, although &quot;ancient&quot; overstates it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;However, while three decades old, the poems are still fresh. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And the book included a small bunch never before published, and thus new to the eyes of most readers. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And wards are not unknown for selected and collected poems; in fact, it&#39;s fairly common.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/3653814723252674694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/3653814723252674694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208543580000#c3653814723252674694' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6156221038273102058</id><published>2008-04-18T13:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T13:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hmmm....</title><summary type='text'>Hmmm....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6156221038273102058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6156221038273102058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208540640000#c6156221038273102058' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1847457031876436095</id><published>2008-04-18T13:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T13:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>sure, these poem deserve to be in print, but they ...</title><summary type='text'>sure, these poem deserve to be in print, but they are ancient. and saroyan is no longer a practicing poet.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i wish you would have chosen a book by a poet who is still in action.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1847457031876436095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1847457031876436095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208539380000#c1847457031876436095' title=''/><author><name>Howard Junker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10198580705465008538</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='27' src='http://www.zyzzyva.org/staff.htm%20folder/staffkkhj.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-804650042"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6773174705247402051</id><published>2008-04-18T13:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T13:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pica-phatic!</title><summary type='text'>Pica-phatic!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6773174705247402051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6773174705247402051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208538420000#c6773174705247402051' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1949143252077866289</id><published>2008-04-18T12:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T12:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I love it.  I will buy a copy of the book forthwit...</title><summary type='text'>I love it.  I will buy a copy of the book forthwith. I think that&#39;s two copies from this same press this year. Wasn&#39;t the Henry Parland book by them, too?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I saw a bunch of their books in a beautiful display up in the Bibliobarn, a very large used bookstore up in S. Kortright, near to where I reside.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;They must be locals or something.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;At any rate, contratulations to Aram </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1949143252077866289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1949143252077866289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208535600000#c1949143252077866289' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4952393884779583101</id><published>2008-04-18T11:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T11:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey RonYeah, the MM looks great, did you have a se...</title><summary type='text'>Hey Ron&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yeah, the MM looks great, did you have a second and third choice to share?  Kyger, you mentioned a few days ago as a finalist if the book had been included for competition. I wish that it had.  I mean &quot;Blod&quot;  is not a great poem,  how bout “lok”,  does that make you think of sex also, or anything?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I mean, seriously&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think William Carlos Williams is going to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/4952393884779583101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/4952393884779583101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208533440000#c4952393884779583101' title=''/><author><name>farfalla press</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09446212454796875908</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://a614.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/m_e4aa9fa7812c0f94eb3f12932f507eed.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-176615294"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7828589535855474645</id><published>2008-04-18T10:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T10:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeyes!</title><summary type='text'>Yeyes!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/7828589535855474645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/7828589535855474645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208530260000#c7828589535855474645' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6565231158726076819</id><published>2008-04-18T10:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T10:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I find it refreshing and delightful that this book...</title><summary type='text'>I find it refreshing and delightful that this book should get a prize, yet I shudder to think what some of the PSA members will think (actually I take some wicked pleasure in it).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Poetry Society of Virginia is so rampamtly conservative, they withdrew from the PSA a few years ago- only two of us on the executive committee voted against doing so- I think I&#39;ll buy a few of these books </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6565231158726076819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/6565231158726076819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208527560000#c6565231158726076819' title=''/><author><name>Shann Palmer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14067576860660881139</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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1505930166"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1851353894239503417</id><published>2008-04-18T09:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T09:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Brilliant. And if I can (affectionately) tease you...</title><summary type='text'>Brilliant. And if I can (affectionately) tease you a little, since some of the stuff in this book can&#39;t be sounded, even the &quot;rhyming&quot; m-ish thing, you&#39;ve awarded  a prize to some (please bear with me) School of Real-Quiet-Quietude stuff ... (sorry!)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1851353894239503417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/1851353894239503417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208526360000#c1851353894239503417' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-714757790870124985</id><published>2008-04-18T09:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T09:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I became familiar with Saroyan when he did a pair ...</title><summary type='text'>I became familiar with Saroyan when he did a pair of readings at D.G.Wills Books in LaJolla , first as a solo, the other with novelist/poet Dan Fante, son of John. Saroyan&#39;s poems were a shock to the system, as the ganglia is conditioned to expect prolix , bluster and long form strangeness, but after time the qualities you speak of emerged. He is someone who took the idea that language should be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/714757790870124985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/714757790870124985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208525280000#c714757790870124985' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/R8sb8yZjEYI/AAAAAAAABE8/NrnjzFWxqP4/S220/images.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7821832831862183351</id><published>2008-04-18T09:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T09:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think I&#39;ll  &quot;spring&quot; for a book!   thanks... ter...</title><summary type='text'>I think I&#39;ll  &quot;spring&quot; for a book! &lt;BR/&gt;  thanks... terrific pick..&lt;BR/&gt;   and that &quot;M&quot;  !!!!   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;title of John Cage&#39;s  &lt;BR/&gt;  Writings &#39;67-&#39;72 is&lt;BR/&gt;           M&lt;BR/&gt; you&#39;ve &quot;single handdedly&quot;  with your choice &lt;BR/&gt;    wet my appetite</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/7821832831862183351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/7821832831862183351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208524860000#c7821832831862183351' 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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3430023514720982113</id><published>2008-04-18T09:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T09:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,I never expected a book I&#39;ve already read (and...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never expected a book I&#39;ve already read (and reviewed) to receive this prize. Or a collected poems, which this is after a fashion. But the book more than holds up after all this time, and even I hadn&#39;t managed to collect all the volumes of poetry that made up this book before this UDP book came out. So the book was necessary, and the prize is a nice surprise.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Geof</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/3430023514720982113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/3430023514720982113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208524080000#c3430023514720982113' title=''/><author><name>Geof Huth</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04763053227479195348</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/img/186/968/1024/HUTH21.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-599696549"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5147885282894351920</id><published>2008-04-18T08:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T08:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i don&#39;t think you could have chosen better. Saroya...</title><summary type='text'>i don&#39;t think you could have chosen better. Saroyan&#39;s poems are some of the most striking i have ever read, striking but in many ways quiet, too, like the poem you recommended to be included in the program. thanks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/5147885282894351920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/5147885282894351920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208522940000#c5147885282894351920' title=''/><author><name>Colin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00329054918618041522</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_CxURA7J2YV0/R2sAAEOoupI/AAAAAAAAADo/39Yf2FTQz-k/S220/n61006798_33867021_2583.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1617533599"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7205608227778447278</id><published>2008-04-18T07:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T07:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Excellent choice!</title><summary type='text'>Excellent choice!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/7205608227778447278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5570663444889259977/comments/default/7205608227778447278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html?showComment=1208516760000#c7205608227778447278' title=''/><author><name>Tom Beckett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08956557701199101102</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/2008/04/i-was-planning-on-running-this-note.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5570663444889259977' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5570663444889259977' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1611280848"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2008"/></entry></feed>