<?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.post8540867740356866780..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/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4640072552607488515</id><published>2009-03-30T15:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T15:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I hear you Ron. But I have to admit, the stark bla...</title><summary type='text'>I hear you Ron. But I have to admit, the stark black-and-white covers and sometimes off kilter graphics and generally amateurish idea of book cover art from New Directions in the 1950s and &#39;60s definitely added to their allure for me. I often bought books by their covers in my autodidact days before the GI Bill got me a &quot;higher&quot; education, and ND books drew me in because at the time they really </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/4640072552607488515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/4640072552607488515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238440800000#c4640072552607488515' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1UZ-EklSnDQ/SceRJ503r3I/AAAAAAAAASk/QsoGqJOPxr8/S220/March+18,+2003++front.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6296620978550370642</id><published>2009-03-30T09:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T09:28:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;New Directions decades-long commitment to ugly bo...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;New Directions decades-long commitment to ugly book design&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hear hear!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Eliot Weinberger notwithstanding.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/6296620978550370642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/6296620978550370642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238419680000#c6296620978550370642' 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/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5593221890711682748</id><published>2009-03-29T21:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T21:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael,I did not mention it this time around. I a...</title><summary type='text'>Michael,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I did not mention it this time around. I always think of that volume as being a monument of New Directions decades-long commitment to ugly book design.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/5593221890711682748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/5593221890711682748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238375580000#c5593221890711682748' 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/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-718426615342415939</id><published>2009-03-29T16:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T16:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Uke, Your critique of the Contact Press cover d...</title><summary type='text'>Hi Uke, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your critique of the Contact Press cover design has some dang good suggestions.  However...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Putting yourself in the shoes of W.C. Williams back in 1923, I think you gotta be grateful with the simple fact that Contact Publishing spelled the title correctly on the front cover. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Believe it or not, the same year as &lt;I&gt;Spring and All&lt;/I&gt;, Contact Publishing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/718426615342415939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/718426615342415939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238357880000#c718426615342415939' 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/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4308853930600620488</id><published>2009-03-29T15:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T15:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Maybe I missed it, but did you mention, Ron, the 1...</title><summary type='text'>Maybe I missed it, but did you mention, Ron, the 1970 New Directions collection of Williams&#39; long works called IMAGINATIONS which included Kora in Hell and Spring and All&quot; without the ampersand?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/4308853930600620488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/4308853930600620488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238354040000#c4308853930600620488' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1UZ-EklSnDQ/SceRJ503r3I/AAAAAAAAASk/QsoGqJOPxr8/S220/March+18,+2003++front.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5904457159368091193</id><published>2009-03-29T12:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T12:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If Steven Fama is right, then the original interio...</title><summary type='text'>If Steven Fama is right, then the original interior design sounds better. But that 1923 cover is &lt;EM&gt;funky,&lt;/EM&gt; and has little to do with Williams. I don&#39;t know why the designer wanted to justify the title and author name -- just so &quot;by&quot; can be on a line by itself?? -- but even granting that objective why do it by letterspacing the u/lc italic title? Increasing the title typesize would have been</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/5904457159368091193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/5904457159368091193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238344800000#c5904457159368091193' title=''/><author><name>Uke Xensen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14925310033193507314</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.rightreading.com/daybook_images/p-villa.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-191445863"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6236219457786811662</id><published>2009-03-29T08:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T08:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It was done (at least) twice morein the ND 1938 ed...</title><summary type='text'>It was done (at least) twice more&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in the ND 1938 edition odf The Collected Earlier Poems   which  both WCW AND James Laughlin  edited..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this 1st volume was secondly printed in 1951  also both WCW and JL  involved..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;both use &amp;quot;and&amp;quot;  not &amp;quot;&amp;amp;&amp;quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the 1970 version new to me and very 70&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;hep&amp;quot; as I have it from the 1951 Collected   </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/6236219457786811662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/6236219457786811662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238330880000#c6236219457786811662' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7117653777173269444</id><published>2009-03-29T02:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T02:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron, @#%*!!!And thanks!The Frontier Press edi...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;@#%*!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And thanks!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Frontier Press edition&#39;s ampersand looks like something out of Dr. Seuss next to the quiet elegance of the lowercase actual word on the 1923 original.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The cat in the hat would like right at home, eh?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I can understand the primacy of first loves.   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Did you know the Frontier Press edition re-setting of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/7117653777173269444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8540867740356866780/comments/default/7117653777173269444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html?showComment=1238307300000#c7117653777173269444' 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/2009/03/1923-1970-there-you-have-it.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8540867740356866780' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8540867740356866780' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 29, 2009"/></entry></feed>