<?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.post5951805685302344522..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/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/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>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1222465126323157747</id><published>2007-06-27T17:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T17:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I guess I&#39;m more cynical, having been in the marke...</title><summary type='text'>I guess I&#39;m more cynical, having been in the marketing field (as an artist, art director, and illustrator, more than as an ad-copy-writer, I admit).&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, what I meant (despite my clumsy phrasing) was that anyone who does take blurbs seriously misunderstands the nature of hte book publishing business. No insider takes them seriously, that I&#39;ve met, except as a marketing tool. I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1222465126323157747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1222465126323157747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182979620000#c1222465126323157747' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5744212561993359134</id><published>2007-06-27T10:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T10:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>art:&quot;To take them seriously at all is to misunders...</title><summary type='text'>art:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;To take them seriously at all is to misunderstand that book publishing is a profit-making business, not a charity designed to benefit all mankind.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You meant to say &quot;is to UNDERSTAND that book publishing&quot;.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yes, blurbing is about advertising.  That&#39;s why dustwrappers were originally invented, as ad copy.  For the first 50 years or so, dustwrappers were routinely </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/5744212561993359134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/5744212561993359134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182953340000#c5744212561993359134' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9179343120970284746</id><published>2007-06-27T06:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T06:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Hypocrite&quot; is not the word I would choose; far to...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Hypocrite&quot; is not the word I would choose; far too emotive. I noticed a discrepancy, which perhaps no one else noticed, or, if they did, thought worth mentioning. I thought it worth mentioning, and amusing. I still do. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I also find Curtis&#39;s defence amusing, as it makes Ron out to be uncharacteristically passive: &quot;happens to him.&quot; Really? Correct me if I&#39;m wrong, but as I understand it, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/9179343120970284746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/9179343120970284746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182939480000#c9179343120970284746' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8608089545563425468</id><published>2007-06-27T02:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-27T02:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve argued elsewhere for a third stream in poetry...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve argued elsewhere for a third stream in poetry—I don&#39;t find these Us vs. Them polarities very useful. Ron argued back that he considered my third stream (eg. Bly&#39;s leaping poetry, poetry of transcendance and vision) as just another aspect of SoQ. I find it interesting the mental boxes we get ourselves stuck in. Such mental boxes almost always limit our comprehension of what is actually there,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8608089545563425468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8608089545563425468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182926280000#c8608089545563425468' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5110945842305274734</id><published>2007-06-26T21:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T21:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When Borges was young he blurbed Ulysses with simi...</title><summary type='text'>When Borges was young he blurbed Ulysses with similar invocations of totality : “Its life seems situated on a single plane, without those steps that take us mentally from each subjective world to an objective stage, from the whimsical daydream of one man’s unconscious to the frequently trafficked dreams of the collective mind.”&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;His belief in the avant-garde ended there, as he slammed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/5110945842305274734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/5110945842305274734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182906000000#c5110945842305274734' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5917531252646964870</id><published>2007-06-26T20:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T20:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You pick your fights.  Some aren&#39;t worth the effor...</title><summary type='text'>You pick your fights.  Some aren&#39;t worth the effort.  Others are ill-timed.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;levari:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The whole point of Ron&#39;s blog was to say that blurbs DO distort and exaggerate.  What better proof than this?  How is an author a hypocrite if he criticises blurbs, particularly if that happens to him?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/5917531252646964870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/5917531252646964870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182903240000#c5917531252646964870' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8092750396501771878</id><published>2007-06-26T18:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T18:38:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was in the IWW 1965-67, where my mentor the firs...</title><summary type='text'>I was in the IWW 1965-67, where my mentor the first year was George Starbuck and the second year was Marvin Bell.  For useful insights into the man and poet who is Marvin Bell/ do a Marvin Bell Iowa poet laureate search, and read his&lt;BR/&gt;address and his &quot;White Clover&quot; poem.&lt;BR/&gt;-&lt;BR/&gt;Brian Salchert</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8092750396501771878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8092750396501771878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182897480000#c8092750396501771878' title=''/><author><name>Brian Salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7222625870252986953</id><published>2007-06-26T17:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T17:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I know Mr. Silliman&#39;s a busy guy, but I would love...</title><summary type='text'>I know Mr. Silliman&#39;s a busy guy, but I would love if he once in a while returned fire on his critics, paraticularly when they make a salient point...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;d love to hear his response to Mark Granier&#39;s comment, who, if I&#39;m reading this correctly basically just called Silliman out as a blatant hypocrite based on the blurb that appears on his book.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What do you think, Mr. Silliman?  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/7222625870252986953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/7222625870252986953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182892560000#c7222625870252986953' title=''/><author><name>Levari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03797267895979862964</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6844043361725138893</id><published>2007-06-26T12:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T12:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hi ron,&quot;But to characterize this as T.S. Eliot mee...</title><summary type='text'>hi ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;&quot;But to characterize this as T.S. Eliot meets Allen Ginsberg is plausible only in a world in which the readers aren’t going to recognize any poets less famous than those two&quot;&lt;/I&gt; -- which is why the blurb is entirely plausible.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;&quot;My question is: does this serve the poet? I can’t imagine that it does.&quot;&lt;/I&gt; -- unless the blurb&#39;s raison d&#39;etre is to sell books.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/6844043361725138893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/6844043361725138893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182874440000#c6844043361725138893' title=''/><author><name>tmorange</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13540323590390887131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-348262623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6947461481431045900</id><published>2007-06-26T11:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T11:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t think it would be fair for Ron--or anyone ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t think it would be fair for Ron--or anyone else--to claiim that Whitman is a kind of precursor of &quot;language school&quot; poetics or formal inquiry.  By the same token, I don&#39;t think Ginsberg &quot;belongs&quot; to the language school, either.  And I don&#39;t think Ginsberg felt comfortable being made use of in that sense.  He was not into non-syntactic parsing and shifting textual indeterminacy--quite the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/6947461481431045900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/6947461481431045900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182872220000#c6947461481431045900' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7885261283295446631</id><published>2007-06-26T10:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T10:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, thanks for the tips. I&#39;m going to order th...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, thanks for the tips. I&#39;m going to order these two volumes post haste.  A Probable Volume of Dreams, and Stars Which See.  Thanks again.  Any specific poems you think are his best in those books?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/7885261283295446631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/7885261283295446631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182869100000#c7885261283295446631' 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/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-525063594003122329</id><published>2007-06-26T08:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T08:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,Nice lines about Whitman -- thanks.  I didn...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nice lines about Whitman -- thanks.  I didn&#39;t mean to suggest he wasn&#39;t a pioneer.  I was merely objecting to Ron&#39;s projection of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E-blurb verbiage onto him.  I may have been overly-defensive; he may court indeterminacy more than Coleridge, I&#39;m not sure.  The degree of indeterminacy courted might be indeterminate, from this vantage.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/525063594003122329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/525063594003122329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182862200000#c525063594003122329' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1257656352170462631</id><published>2007-06-26T05:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T05:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This quibbling over blurb-speak is funny, coming f...</title><summary type='text'>This quibbling over blurb-speak is funny, coming from the guy whose book sports this marvellously hypertrophied example (the blurb to end all blurbs): &quot;.... One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1257656352170462631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1257656352170462631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182850980000#c1257656352170462631' title=''/><author><name>Mark Granier</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09899629187771913398</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://static.flickr.com/35/125078083_0408f03b6f_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-837377571"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8360922928050642205</id><published>2007-06-26T01:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T01:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I once wrote a book jacket blurb for a poet whom I...</title><summary type='text'>I once wrote a book jacket blurb for a poet whom I didn&#39;t particularly like, but whose magazine had published me and who had, in addition, penned a very complimentary review of my only published book of poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It was a very difficult assignment.  In retrospect, I think it may be my best piece of writing, since the blurb, in order to accommodate my honesty without offending the author, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8360922928050642205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8360922928050642205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182834120000#c8360922928050642205' title=''/><author><name>C. E. Chaffin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='19' src='http://wildlife1.usask.ca/en/west_nile_virus/images/raven.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1172652492"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1211936347541433398</id><published>2007-06-26T00:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-26T00:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I heard the same story about Bell veto-ing Berriga...</title><summary type='text'>I heard the same story about Bell veto-ing Berrigan, from Anselm Hollo, so it must be true.  From what I can gather, piecing rumors and scuttlebutt, Berrigan didn&#39;t run his workshops the way they expected instructors to, and that counted against him.  Too, TB lived a messy lifestyle, and old UI was nothing if not careful about its image.  When they write the history of the workshop, there are a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1211936347541433398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1211936347541433398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182833340000#c1211936347541433398' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4999775204211428680</id><published>2007-06-25T22:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T22:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Does Bell have a best poem that is clearly his rat...</title><summary type='text'>Does Bell have a best poem that is clearly his rather than some amalgam of styles and strategies?  Reading him, I&#39;ve often thought -- well, this is a little like Lux, and a little like Tate (both) and so on.  But I haven&#39;t ever seen anything that rang the noodle as being just plain Bell.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Isn&#39;t this a kind of drawback?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I realize that here many poets think it is somehow salutary </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/4999775204211428680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/4999775204211428680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182825600000#c4999775204211428680' 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/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8487569152247526221</id><published>2007-06-25T21:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T21:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A few things:Empathy and care can indeed indicate ...</title><summary type='text'>A few things:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Empathy and care can indeed indicate qualities of writing.  Walt was the man, he suffered, he was there.  I haven&#39;t read Bell, but if he can get anything approaching THAT into his poetry, that would be really something.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And:  I agree that that School you have persistently attempted to name-into-being &quot;has a hard time discussing influences &amp; forerunners.&quot;  This is a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8487569152247526221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/8487569152247526221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182822240000#c8487569152247526221' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1554361353178746888</id><published>2007-06-25T20:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T20:06:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;The mists of time?&quot;</title><summary type='text'>&quot;The mists of time?&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1554361353178746888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/1554361353178746888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182816360001#c1554361353178746888' title=''/><author><name>Michael</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15639031912135091927</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-179247073"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7743801874037643512</id><published>2007-06-25T20:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T20:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy.&quot;Finnish saying which ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Finnish saying which argues something like, &quot;Groupthink reinforces the stupidity of each.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Fortunately the SoQ has to contend with the Post-Avant, and vice versa.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The worst thing of all would be agreement from sea to shining sea.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Multiply the factions!  That was the cry of Federalist Letter #10, and it remains relevant to the case,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/7743801874037643512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/7743801874037643512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182816360000#c7743801874037643512' 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/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-218405897385832006</id><published>2007-06-25T17:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T17:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, Marvin Bell may have mellowed in his old age ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, Marvin Bell may have mellowed in his old age and fit your description of him now, but here&#39;s two Bell stories from my few short years at the U. of Iowa Writers Workshop. I was there from 1966-69 but had to work on a BA first—they let me work on it and an MFA at the same time in &#39;67, but first I had to be accepted into the graduate workshop. George Starbuck was running it then, and as I later</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/218405897385832006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/218405897385832006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182807300000#c218405897385832006' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://www.yourmanfriday.com/backdoor/Lally9.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6737739451847230648</id><published>2007-06-25T14:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T14:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The lines and heritage is there; it&#39;s always there...</title><summary type='text'>The lines and heritage is there; it&#39;s always there, you just have to have enough interest to look for it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The self-proclaimed street-poet&#39;s in Portland, Oregon would much rather read/hear Marvin Bell than any descendant of the Zukofsky school and would certainly rather run behind Mr. Bell&#39;s legacy than your &quot; . . . Pound - Williams - Zukfosky - Olson - Grenier - Goldsmith&quot; legacy (threw </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/6737739451847230648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/6737739451847230648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182796320000#c6737739451847230648' title=''/><author><name>Frank Sauce</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10926489233585746931</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://www.spiretech.com/~earwater/images/101.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-938845116"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2348943166029717777</id><published>2007-06-25T12:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T12:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting piece.  It covers Bell&#39;s book, which I...</title><summary type='text'>Interesting piece.  It covers Bell&#39;s book, which I bet you don&#39;t like too much, but doesn&#39;t require any real discussion of his poetry.  That said, the screwy use of blurbs, particularly with poetry books, is worthy of further commentary.&lt;BR/&gt;Also, it sounds like Bly is now in an off-shoot class of SoQ -- the &quot;open&quot; or &quot;naked&quot; poetry school?  Is this something I&#39;ve missed?  I don&#39;t think I recall </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/2348943166029717777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/2348943166029717777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182790200000#c2348943166029717777' title=''/><author><name>pablodee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06766571262275049830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2109821340"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-873046056042961928</id><published>2007-06-25T12:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T12:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It seems to me that once again, Ron, your stringen...</title><summary type='text'>It seems to me that once again, Ron, your stringent lineage-filiation-DNA-dichotomizing skews the history... when a blurbist writes &quot;TS Eliot meets Allen Ginsberg&quot; s/he is not offering a full-blown genetic bloodline for some 2-headed amalga-monster Son of ELIOGBERG, in full uniform with descriptive markings.  Rather, the blurbist is simply suggesting that Bell&#39;s poetry offers a combination of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/873046056042961928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/873046056042961928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182788040000#c873046056042961928' title=''/><author><name>Henry Gould</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/3390/124/320/268619/PA100027.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1295597322"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2189480482975537437</id><published>2007-06-25T11:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T11:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>but you&#39;re right to point out the absurdity of the...</title><summary type='text'>but you&#39;re right to point out the absurdity of the jacket copy .... one would think that Bell would have some control over that stuff by now . .. . but i know that when i was publishing dead tree books, i had no say in the matter, none of my publishers consulted me about jacket copy and in fact the jacket copy on every dead tree book of mine made me cringe embarrassed and angry, especially blurbs</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/2189480482975537437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/2189480482975537437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182785340000#c2189480482975537437' title=''/><author><name>William_Knott</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10848525067425082815</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1665046687"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2386838865786246212</id><published>2007-06-25T11:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-25T11:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I have trouble with this for several reasons.I thi...</title><summary type='text'>I have trouble with this for several reasons.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think Marvin would carp at this because you&#39;ve used his book (and him) to make a point that probably has almost nothing to do with him per se, and doesn&#39;t do him the courtesy of discussing the contents of his book, or of imagining what his efforts might mean outside the context of the political and literary dialogue you&#39;ve set up.  Or even </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/2386838865786246212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5951805685302344522/comments/default/2386838865786246212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html?showComment=1182783840000#c2386838865786246212' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/use-of-names-in-jacket-blurbs-or-for.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5951805685302344522' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5951805685302344522' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2007"/></entry></feed>