<?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.post7970536223422174424..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/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/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>46</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7511496089484450011</id><published>2008-10-29T01:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T01:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No Real Light.  Joe Wenderoth.  Wave Books, 2007.L...</title><summary type='text'>No Real Light.  Joe Wenderoth.  Wave Books, 2007.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let me begin by saying that I have admired and enjoyed much of Joe Wenderoth&#39;s work, primarily his books Disfortune and Letters to Wendy&#39;s.  Unpacking his hair-raising poems, I have sat pensively, laughed out loud, and felt the fury of provocative, reckless music.  I consider him to be one of the few poets writing today who appears </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/7511496089484450011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/7511496089484450011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1225257900000#c7511496089484450011' title=''/><author><name>J.W.</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18182926318299799071</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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-82375132"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4061849983998963950</id><published>2008-09-22T13:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T13:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>But how are you supposed to know it&#39;s satire if it...</title><summary type='text'>But how are you supposed to know it&#39;s satire if it&#39;s not funny?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4061849983998963950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4061849983998963950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1222104300000#c4061849983998963950' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SKc8UMRiyeI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/mInUuxveZbU/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6947341212760236387</id><published>2008-09-22T11:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T11:36:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wenderoth&#39;s satire is aiming for a bit more than a...</title><summary type='text'>Wenderoth&#39;s satire is aiming for a bit more than an easy laugh.  Koch took a different route.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/6947341212760236387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/6947341212760236387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1222097760000#c6947341212760236387' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2051211024784008049</id><published>2008-09-21T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>But James, the difference is, Koch&#39;s poem is funny...</title><summary type='text'>But James, the difference is, Koch&#39;s poem is funny.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/2051211024784008049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/2051211024784008049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1222018320000#c2051211024784008049' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SKc8UMRiyeI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/mInUuxveZbU/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 21, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4481578624476734979</id><published>2008-09-19T19:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T19:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Related to this type of single satirical poem in a...</title><summary type='text'>Related to this type of single satirical poem in a mass of other poems in Wenderoth&#39;s book, as a little dig at 20th C. Pleasures, I thought of Kenneth Koch&#39;s poem regarding Williams&#39;s poems:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams&lt;BR/&gt;Kenneth Koch &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1&lt;BR/&gt;I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.&lt;BR/&gt;I am sorry, but it was morning, and I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4481578624476734979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4481578624476734979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221865380000#c4481578624476734979' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8135849765219427980</id><published>2008-09-19T14:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T14:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, in this case it appears you attempted to go o...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, in this case it appears you attempted to go out clipped-wing quail hunting but instead shot one of your own in the face.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If something seems so grossly out of place from a professional poet, it would serve you well to at least investigate all possible reasons why before firing your birdshot.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8135849765219427980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8135849765219427980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221847200000#c8135849765219427980' title=''/><author><name>chippens</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01319797537274875566</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_o38OzkCcOW4/SCUOin8F2AI/AAAAAAAAAAU/einfVZlA17Q/S220/DSC_0041.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-197089391"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6084046204668606407</id><published>2008-09-19T10:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T10:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Give it to the SoQ.&quot;?No one who read Ron&#39;s post a...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Give it to the SoQ.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No one who read Ron&#39;s post and understood it would say anything that naive.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your sarcasm&#39;s irrelevant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/6084046204668606407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/6084046204668606407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221834780000#c6084046204668606407' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5697127926603720625</id><published>2008-09-19T10:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T10:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think it should be noted that, outside of this d...</title><summary type='text'>I think it should be noted that, outside of this discussion of the &quot;intentions&quot; of this poem, the post also said that 80-85% of this book is very well done.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/5697127926603720625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/5697127926603720625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221833040000#c5697127926603720625' title=''/><author><name>John Gallaher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02112997671155171626</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/blogger/3362/3683/320/JGlessCloseWithEffect.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1390315596122363205</id><published>2008-09-19T07:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T07:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Leave it to Ron Silliman to choose some bad poetry...</title><summary type='text'>Leave it to Ron Silliman to choose some bad poetry and give it to the SoQ.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Right on!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So expected.  So usual.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/1390315596122363205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/1390315596122363205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221823320000#c1390315596122363205' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/R-T_8p07tdI/AAAAAAAAALk/-vDDGcPoXP0/S220/Cotton+gully.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 19, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8221856252055700797</id><published>2008-09-18T21:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T21:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Johannes:Think of what a defense of Kinnell&#39;s The ...</title><summary type='text'>Johannes:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Think of what a defense of Kinnell&#39;s The Bear would lead you to.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kinnell&#39;s poems are addressed to a shared audience of committed feeling(s), through specific, unambiguous levels of statement.  Narrative with vivid imagistic observation leading to a &quot;cathartic&quot; conclusion.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Take a poet like Donne.  Could you say that his poems are either simple or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8221856252055700797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8221856252055700797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221789420000#c8221856252055700797' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4774196186032009187</id><published>2008-09-18T21:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T21:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think that Warhol is truly awful. But that&#39;s off...</title><summary type='text'>I think that Warhol is truly awful. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But that&#39;s off the subject. I think &quot;Rain Delay&quot; puts it well. I don&#39;t find the &lt;I&gt;poem&lt;/I&gt; unsettling at all--just (as Mark says) tame. Boring. In fact, it&#39;s the way a line like &quot;he breaks her spine with a hammer,&quot; which I do find unsettling, can be part of a poem that isn&#39;t, that bugs me about it. The mechanics of the possibility of that divide are </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4774196186032009187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4774196186032009187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221787320000#c4774196186032009187' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8456835472681228489</id><published>2008-09-18T19:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T19:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is so odd to hear Kirby speakas if he understan...</title><summary type='text'>It is so odd to hear Kirby speak&lt;BR/&gt;as if he understands anything. The Earth is always already a Warhol, a &lt;BR/&gt;War-Hole, a Various hall, Wave-Ars-Ole&#39;.. What is the point.&lt;BR/&gt;Life is beyond Determination, hence Difference.. In mythic terms look at the delimited &#39;affect&#39; of &quot;The Tower of Babel&quot; ie &quot;The Hierarchy of Eternally Nascent Geometry&quot;..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;babe El&lt;BR/&gt;The blue OX&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;sad ness</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8456835472681228489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8456835472681228489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221779160000#c8456835472681228489' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3468881791329255354</id><published>2008-09-18T16:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T16:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t know what it is.  Warhol had this kind of ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t know what it is.  Warhol had this kind of tongue in cheek aspect. I think that&#39;s where Wenderoth is aiming.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A certain kind of blankness.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;d read some of his poems from Wendy&#39;s, and I think people are arguing, Andy, not that the poem can be read in and of itself in a new critical way, but with the support of the rest of Joe&#39;s work to show that it has a kind of satire in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3468881791329255354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3468881791329255354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221770760000#c3468881791329255354' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8207835727813444032</id><published>2008-09-18T15:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T15:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also, Joe Wenderoth has a performance piece in the...</title><summary type='text'>Also, Joe Wenderoth has a performance piece in the new issue of my online magazine Action,Yes - www.actionyes.org.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8207835727813444032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8207835727813444032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221767280000#c8207835727813444032' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8179557230369732679</id><published>2008-09-18T15:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T15:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with James comments. Well-said. John G., A...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with James comments. Well-said. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;John G., Andy etc&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t think it&#39;s mere parody. Also, I think to write a maudlin emotional poem about this would be far more expected, far less unsettling than this is. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Curtis wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Quietude&#39;s defining limitation is its slavish adherence to previous models, its fear of ambiguity and elaborated meanings, its reluctance to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8179557230369732679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8179557230369732679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221767220000#c8179557230369732679' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7843945251539318823</id><published>2008-09-18T14:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T14:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s also a satire of Kinnell&#39;s bear poem.  The po...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s also a satire of Kinnell&#39;s bear poem.  The poet marked by blood.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/7843945251539318823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/7843945251539318823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221762420000#c7843945251539318823' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-802299273358917112</id><published>2008-09-18T13:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T13:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If it&#39;s emotionally sincere, it sucks.  If it&#39;s sa...</title><summary type='text'>If it&#39;s emotionally sincere, it sucks.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If it&#39;s satire, it&#39;s unfunny satire, which basically makes it worthless.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Stop overthinking it!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/802299273358917112'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/802299273358917112'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221760260000#c802299273358917112' title=''/><author><name>Rain Delay</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11432287890097060316</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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1269047305"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8812079979310158641</id><published>2008-09-18T12:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T12:09:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron&#39;s distinction was never between &quot;overwrought&quot; ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron&#39;s distinction was never between &quot;overwrought&quot; and everything else.  Zukofsky is certainly the most &quot;overwrought&quot; writer who ever lived, but its &quot;wrought&quot; is continuously creative at every level.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Quietude&#39;s defining limitation is its slavish adherence to previous models, its fear of ambiguity and elaborated meanings, its reluctance to address difference* in language and thought.&lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8812079979310158641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8812079979310158641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221754140000#c8812079979310158641' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4887506493433612035</id><published>2008-09-18T11:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T11:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It is amazing and depressing that we live in a cul...</title><summary type='text'>It is amazing and depressing that we live in a culture so sarcastic that a poem with absolutely no markers of irony can be read as intentionally ironic. And it probably is. But that basically makes us a culture of assholes, unable either to take seriously something as serious as familial abuse or to say anything genuinely critical about the cliched, insipid, or otherwise ineffective ways in which</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4887506493433612035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/4887506493433612035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221750300000#c4887506493433612035' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-333679286388285291</id><published>2008-09-18T10:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T10:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m starting to like the poem better now that I se...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m starting to like the poem better now that I see it in line with his other poems (which I haven&#39;t read, but which are referred to here). Thanks for sharpening the context for me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/333679286388285291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/333679286388285291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221749820000#c333679286388285291' 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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3004161668245903181</id><published>2008-09-18T08:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T08:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I am not sure that these poems are &#39;crafted with a...</title><summary type='text'>I am not sure that these poems are &#39;crafted with an exact eye.&#39; Not to be petty, but I was stopped by the second word – &#39;insure&#39; – which is a misspelled, unless the poet means that Death buys insurance. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Although I do like the idea of Death buying insurance. That would make a nice poem, too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think he means &#39;ensure.&#39; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do think that he could lose &#39;summer&#39; though, as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3004161668245903181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3004161668245903181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221739380000#c3004161668245903181' title=''/><author><name>Tortilla ex Machina</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11240795400994592569</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_HakneZ76Pf4/SFZUaTMbX-I/AAAAAAAAAkk/KgeQzj05Vvg/S220/changes.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599458885"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3225813860696785433</id><published>2008-09-18T07:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T07:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I’m reminded of a review of a movie many years ago...</title><summary type='text'>I’m reminded of a review of a movie many years ago I never saw, one about a telethon where Meatloaf battles a car.  It’s a phrase that has always stuck with me, and in this context it goes something like if you’re making self-consciously bad art to parody unintentionally bad art, you’re still just making bad art.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3225813860696785433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3225813860696785433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221735660000#c3225813860696785433' title=''/><author><name>John Gallaher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02112997671155171626</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/blogger/3362/3683/320/JGlessCloseWithEffect.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 18, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3463023555536803908</id><published>2008-09-17T23:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T23:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The entire poem is a satire of the soft tone and t...</title><summary type='text'>The entire poem is a satire of the soft tone and topics of NPR-narcotized narrative writing, taken to the most mawkishly raw, absurd place.  The whispery, italicized line is a deadpan jab at sanctimony.  Wenderoth did the same thing in his Letter&#39;s to Wendy&#39;s, involving there the absolute pornography of fast food commerce.  And the clunkiness in the poem is on purpose, etc.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3463023555536803908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/3463023555536803908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221706860000#c3463023555536803908' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14066844450420389687</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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-564976163"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8982096797709922591</id><published>2008-09-17T21:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T21:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Johannes, I can see your third way here: the poem ...</title><summary type='text'>Johannes, I can see your third way here: the poem as celebration/critique of the bathos of American culture, a flarf-like gesture. I think that may complicate the role of the traumatized poet satire a bit, but it still contains the same satire, that of the poet picturing his own sensitivity as in any way relevant in a culture of this level of tastelessness.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Still, reading the poem that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8982096797709922591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/8982096797709922591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221701040000#c8982096797709922591' title=''/><author><name>mark wallace</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.avecbooks.org/images/markwallace.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-476913415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5167044885158384976</id><published>2008-09-17T20:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-17T20:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>i just agree with Johannes. his first post especia...</title><summary type='text'>i just agree with Johannes. his first post especially.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/5167044885158384976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7970536223422174424/comments/default/5167044885158384976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html?showComment=1221699300000#c5167044885158384976' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05327429647175738328</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/2008/09/of-19-authors-whose-books-i-read-in.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7970536223422174424' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7970536223422174424' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2035658647"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 17, 2008"/></entry></feed>