<?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.post6677597828033855716..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/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-845705969699676689</id><published>2009-11-20T12:52:37.789-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T12:52:37.789-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;gt;...the simple process by which Attention Span ...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;gt;...the simple process by which Attention Span gets compiled [is]easily enough accessed right on the main Attention Span page.&amp;lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m still unable to find this. Can anyone provide a direct link? The early Notes to Poetry, which Steve Evans mentions above in connection to the early versions of Attention Span (and perhaps the explanation of the &amp;quot;process&amp;quot;?), are not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/845705969699676689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/845705969699676689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258739557789#c845705969699676689' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 20, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3553375327202227412</id><published>2009-11-19T16:56:35.416-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T16:56:35.416-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve been away a few days, so I&amp;#39;m getting ...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve been away a few days, so I&amp;#39;m getting to this late, by comment box standards here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the number of different things mentioned in the different lists.  I also enjoy seeing what gets named the most, and by whom.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have two suggestions&amp;gt;  Lists without comments by the respective compilers are not fun.  Steve Evans ought to strongly encourage  least a few </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/3553375327202227412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/3553375327202227412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258667795416#c3553375327202227412' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5483013042325338030</id><published>2009-11-18T21:15:08.144-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T21:15:08.144-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;I&amp;#39;m simply perplexed how you can write t...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m simply perplexed how you can write these things with a straight face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don&amp;#39;t even think &amp;quot;diversity&amp;quot; is the goal of this thing. If it was, he would have included a much more diverse pool of judges etc. But that&amp;#39;s not really the goal, is it? And what kind of goal would that be anyways? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, yeah, you binary between quietism and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/5483013042325338030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/5483013042325338030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258596908144#c5483013042325338030' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3070677140460455669</id><published>2009-11-18T17:23:29.810-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T17:23:29.810-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m happy to clarify the simple process by whi...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m happy to clarify the simple process by which Attention Span gets compiled, though it&amp;#39;s easily enough accessed right on the main Attention Span page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Notes to Poetry began (1998-1999), it took the form of a column that circulated by e-mail to people who requested it. The first two editions of &amp;quot;Attention Span&amp;quot; thus consisted of some of those readers (I don&amp;#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/3070677140460455669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/3070677140460455669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258583009810#c3070677140460455669' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-887035860670290313</id><published>2009-11-18T13:56:46.934-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T13:56:46.934-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;I wasn&amp;#39;t asking about &amp;quot;School of Qu...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wasn&amp;#39;t asking about &amp;quot;School of Quietists&amp;quot; in relation to the list of selectors. I understand, and I think everyone does, that Attention Span is a kind of Cannes of the &amp;quot;post-avant.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steve Evans nowhere, so far as I can see, discusses the process of how the &amp;quot;Table of Contents&amp;quot; gets made. I was asking, therefore, about how the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/887035860670290313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/887035860670290313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258570606934#c887035860670290313' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8264211708861565673</id><published>2009-11-18T13:14:30.581-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T13:14:30.581-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t think that Steve is making any claim t...</title><summary type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t think that Steve is making any claim to completeness (this is not a Seth Abramson project). I do think he could have some more quietists, but I don&amp;#39;t think that would change the degree of range, just spread it further. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With 60 participants, I did note that only three seemed to be on the high side of 60. Us oldsters need to make ourselves heard more effectively.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/8264211708861565673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/8264211708861565673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258568070581#c8264211708861565673' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7937826838452606516</id><published>2009-11-18T12:14:48.595-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T12:14:48.595-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jordan said:&#xa;&#xa;&amp;gt;a self-selecting survey pool &#xa;&#xa;N...</title><summary type='text'>Jordan said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt;a self-selecting survey pool &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure what this means. I&amp;#39;ve always wondered how the contributor list for Attention Span is formed. Having some clarity on this would give us a better handle on what these rankings really &amp;quot;show,&amp;quot; no?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/7937826838452606516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/7937826838452606516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258564488595#c7937826838452606516' title=''/><author><name>Kent Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15233688630151467658</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901447242"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 18, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6341269457215184516</id><published>2009-11-17T09:18:53.964-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T09:18:53.964-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Johannes is saying that your statistics point more...</title><summary type='text'>Johannes is saying that your statistics point more to a diffusion of similar interests among a self-selecting survey pool and do not necessarily show any real diversity among those 555 items. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking as one of those items, I have to think he&amp;#39;s right.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/6341269457215184516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/6341269457215184516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258467533964#c6341269457215184516' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 17, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4956545314940577005</id><published>2009-11-16T23:20:49.814-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T23:20:49.814-05:00</updated><title type='text'>60 poets being asked to cite 10 works that they we...</title><summary type='text'>60 poets being asked to cite 10 works that they were currently paying attention to coming up with 633 items, 555 of which are each mentioned only once, isn&amp;#39;t a sign of diversity, Johannes? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/4956545314940577005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/4956545314940577005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258431649814#c4956545314940577005' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6325577614150110395</id><published>2009-11-16T19:01:17.856-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T19:01:17.856-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;These lists are nice and interesting but &amp;qu...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These lists are nice and interesting but &amp;quot;incredibly diversity&amp;quot; is the most ludicrous thing you&amp;#39;ve ever written.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Johannes</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/6325577614150110395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/6325577614150110395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258416077856#c6325577614150110395' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2773058454543344515</id><published>2009-11-16T03:33:47.577-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T03:33:47.577-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I love the poetic quality of lists. Seeing Steve E...</title><summary type='text'>I love the poetic quality of lists. Seeing Steve Evans&amp;#39; list I was inspired to trawl my blogpost titles for 2009. The multi-appearance leaders are (number of appearances in brackets):&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Bernhard (6)&lt;br /&gt;Erich Fried (5)&lt;br /&gt;Miroslav Holub (4)&lt;br /&gt;Christine Busta (3)&lt;br /&gt;R K Singh (3)&lt;br /&gt;Virginia Woolf (2)&lt;br /&gt;W B Yeats (2)&lt;br /&gt;Edward Hopper (2)&lt;br /&gt;So what does it all mean? </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/2773058454543344515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6677597828033855716/comments/default/2773058454543344515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html?showComment=1258360427577#c2773058454543344515' title=''/><author><name>Poet in Residence</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ziEZ2Nqeh7g/SXCr8xsBDXI/AAAAAAAAAEo/eZ8Cg6y03Ho/S220/IMG_0040.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-633-books-chapbooks-songs-films.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6677597828033855716' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6677597828033855716' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1401644336"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 16, 2009"/></entry></feed>