<?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.post8027114941617280587..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/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.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>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7411797753485805818</id><published>2007-06-21T19:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T19:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis Faville said... &gt;I don&#39;t put Dylan into a l...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis Faville said... &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&gt;I don&#39;t put Dylan into a literary tradition. He&#39;s all intuitive. What did he ever read? Does anyone know? &lt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No way of knowing what he read, but Sandburg-to-Guthrie-to-Dylan seems clear.  He listened to a lot of Guthrie.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My point is exactly that Sandburg&#39;s influence exceeded the boundaries of the category, &quot;literary.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7411797753485805818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7411797753485805818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182469680000#c7411797753485805818' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6410579840906193670</id><published>2007-06-21T14:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T14:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Glad to see Ron&#39;s comment about the University of ...</title><summary type='text'>Glad to see Ron&#39;s comment about the University of Chicago Press.  While they&#39;ve done lots of good and worthy and fascinationg things, they haven&#39;t really been in touch with the local poetry scene much, which puts them in a position similar to other U. of C. entities -- the readings series, for example, or even the otherwise wonderful &lt;I&gt;Chicago Review&lt;/I&gt;.  Maybe this has something to do with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/6410579840906193670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/6410579840906193670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182449700000#c6410579840906193670' title=''/><author><name>Archambeau</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.lakeforest.edu/images/userImages/larson/Page_5032/archambeau.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-530470673"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-151302827767897432</id><published>2007-06-21T13:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T13:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>How about Henry James&#39;s Golden Bowl &amp; Princess Cas...</title><summary type='text'>How about Henry James&#39;s Golden Bowl &amp; Princess Casimassima, Gertrude Stein&#39;s The Making of Americans, then--   Pynchon?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Where do we put Joyce&#39;s Ulysses?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t put Dylan into a literary tradition.  He&#39;s all intuitive.  What did he ever read?  Does anyone know?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/151302827767897432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/151302827767897432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182445620000#c151302827767897432' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3667641864574593434</id><published>2007-06-21T10:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T10:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I hitchhiked out of Chicago with a friend from New...</title><summary type='text'>I hitchhiked out of Chicago with a friend from New York.  We got picked up by a guy from New Jersey.  The easterners mocked Illinois&#39; flatness.  The guy from New Jersey then said something generous.  &quot;I dunno, I guess some people like it.  &#39;The horizontal lines are restful to the eye.&#39;&quot;  As he waved his hand slowly parallel to the horizon.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Whitman - Sandburg - Ginsberg -- yes!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/3667641864574593434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/3667641864574593434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182434820000#c3667641864574593434' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7667674073796371609</id><published>2007-06-21T10:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T10:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My Mom grew up in Menasha, Wisconsin.  For her, Ch...</title><summary type='text'>My Mom grew up in Menasha, Wisconsin.  For her, Chicago was THE city in the world, a place she loved.  I think it was probably a denser, closely-knit place, then.  When I visisted it, twice, during the 1990&#39;s, it seemed torn apart, like most American cities, urban renewal fighting restoration, old slums decaying with new ones being born, and pockets of gentrification, established neighborhoods </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7667674073796371609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7667674073796371609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182434580000#c7667674073796371609' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6184700130632055847</id><published>2007-06-21T01:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-21T01:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was amused by Ron&#39;s reference to Chicago as the ...</title><summary type='text'>I was amused by Ron&#39;s reference to Chicago as the &quot;Rodney Dangerfield of poetry scenes&quot; and intrigued by the discussion of flatness in language &amp; landscape.  The Rodney Dangerfield reference reminds me of an overlooked aspect of Chicago poetry, its love, or at least eager acceptance, of comedy.  A Chicago audience wants to applaud for every poem, and I&#39;m not referring to the slam scene. (I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/6184700130632055847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/6184700130632055847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182404400000#c6184700130632055847' title=''/><author><name>Paul Hoover</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12071698965914855472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://www.newamericanwriting.com/images/phoover.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-521418901"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7555994842189380208</id><published>2007-06-20T11:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-20T11:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re: &quot;Flatness.&quot;I once had a conversation with my l...</title><summary type='text'>Re: &quot;Flatness.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I once had a conversation with my late cousin about Larry McMurtry&#39;s Lonesome Dove, which I read on a jet trip from New York to San Francisco.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;PC:  So, what did you think of it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CF:  Well, it had a kind of quotidian flatness of style, no high points or low points.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;PC:  So, you didn&#39;t like it?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;CF:  Not at all.  I thought it was an epic </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7555994842189380208'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7555994842189380208'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182353820000#c7555994842189380208' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2387359614395034169</id><published>2007-06-20T02:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-20T02:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In no way shape or form is that a haiku. It is at ...</title><summary type='text'>In no way shape or form is that a haiku. It is at best a senryu. Haiku is FAR more than the syllable count; there&#39;s a whole aesthetic to it that is considered to be part of the form.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/2387359614395034169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/2387359614395034169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182319380000#c2387359614395034169' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6308805697349676674</id><published>2007-06-19T18:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T18:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>where&#39;s Eric Unger, Barrett Gordon, Kerri Sonnenbe...</title><summary type='text'>where&#39;s Eric Unger, Barrett Gordon, Kerri Sonnenberg, Michael Slosek, Luke Daly???&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;are any of the included poets in their 20s or very early 30s?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i asking because i&#39;m not sure. the only names i recognize are of older poets.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/6308805697349676674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/6308805697349676674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182293640000#c6308805697349676674' title=''/><author><name>Logan Ryan Smith</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03267444929810505425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/540978028_f29b436d9e.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790052993"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2118408527055785337</id><published>2007-06-19T17:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T17:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For one thing, Sandburg&#39;s language ain&#39;t flat, exc...</title><summary type='text'>For one thing, Sandburg&#39;s language ain&#39;t flat, except when deliberately so.  Maybe you mean his syntax is typically close to oral traditions?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For another thing, what&#39;s wrong with flat?  Seems to work for Jasper Johns.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Third thing, everybody knows that Eshleman&#39;s an Ypsilanti poet.  All that mythography on the caves of Ypsilanti, all that passionate engagement with his great </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/2118408527055785337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/2118408527055785337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182290220000#c2118408527055785337' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7697657968192795847</id><published>2007-06-19T14:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T14:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ronthanks for the review- to answer two of your qu...</title><summary type='text'>Ron&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thanks for the review- to answer two of your questions- &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) The book is organized by sub-group as I said in my intro the poets are are a series of venn diagrams in dialogue one with another and that is how they are related.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2) On our selections we chose poets who were either profoundly Chicago (Mark Tardi for Example) profoundly influenced by Chicago (Shin Yu Pai </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7697657968192795847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/7697657968192795847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182278640000#c7697657968192795847' title=''/><author><name>Raymond Bianchi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15615084452699116237</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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-439989596"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2654973874441823553</id><published>2007-06-19T13:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T13:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As someone fluttering around the edges of the Chic...</title><summary type='text'>As someone fluttering around the edges of the Chicago &quot;scene&quot; I think I can say that reading the anthology (which I did with great pleasure) gives one sort of a sense of what it would be like to be a conscientious reading-goer here. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t think there is much conceptual organization (I talk about this more in my review of the anth on the blog), but both Ray and Bill are very much </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/2654973874441823553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/2654973874441823553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182273720000#c2654973874441823553' 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/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1018411034211025932</id><published>2007-06-19T11:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T11:29:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I continue to regard anthologies as problematic.  ...</title><summary type='text'>I continue to regard anthologies as problematic.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anthologies based on literary coteries or &quot;movements&quot; tend to be about accidental age/proximity/friendship factors.  In any case, even if they have a common &quot;theme&quot; the other criteria of quality and measure may not be respected.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anthologies based on region or allegiance to place tend to be too inclusive, or inclusive for the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/1018411034211025932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/1018411034211025932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182266940000#c1018411034211025932' 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/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8571375656691756113</id><published>2007-06-19T11:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-19T11:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hi ron. i didn&#39;t pipe up the other day, not feelin...</title><summary type='text'>hi ron. i didn&#39;t pipe up the other day, not feeling it was appropriate (or necessary) to defend the book from your complaints about its exclusions, but a few points of fact: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;saints of hysteria&quot; does indeed have an acknowledgments section in the back, where the poems are also dated. (i think that answers two fo your beefs.)  the aknowledgments follow the editors&#39; &quot;loose chronology&quot; and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/8571375656691756113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8027114941617280587/comments/default/8571375656691756113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html?showComment=1182266460000#c8571375656691756113' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/06/most-exciting-and-satisfying-anthology.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8027114941617280587' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8027114941617280587' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 19, 2007"/></entry></feed>