<?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.post8725129291725444157..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/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.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>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3214282871559103536</id><published>2009-05-30T05:04:43.015-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-30T05:04:43.015-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I&#39;ve always been puzzled about your professed...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I&#39;ve always been puzzled about your professed inability to &quot;hear&quot; contemporary British English poetry on the page. I hope your recent trip to the UK is helping you over this!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carol Watts&#39; work is truly excellent. It might be mentioned also that Reality Street published her book _Wrack_. I may be biased, but I really recommend this. When she submitted the ms to me about 3 or 4 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/3214282871559103536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/3214282871559103536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html?showComment=1243674283015#c3214282871559103536' title=''/><author><name>Ken Edwards</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16002038301143155008</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/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8725129291725444157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8725129291725444157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-86520789"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-481799212201246121</id><published>2009-05-29T10:11:37.450-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T10:11:37.450-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;I wrote a comment yesterday (first one under ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;I wrote a comment yesterday (first one under this piece) but it didn&#39;t show up (so I guess I didn&#39;t &quot;leave&quot; it after all.  It said something like:  Good to see you writing this about Carol Watts, her work IS great (!). I&#39;ve heard her read (here in San Francisco), so you also get that sound of the &#39;English voice&#39; coming through words/lines (doesn&#39;t come through in what WE can read on the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/481799212201246121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/481799212201246121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html?showComment=1243606297450#c481799212201246121' title=''/><author><name>STEPHEN RATCLIFFE</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412</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/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8725129291725444157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8725129291725444157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1996291811"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 29, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3517383702994095854</id><published>2009-05-28T14:26:01.763-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T14:26:01.763-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Everyone who has power is corrupt. As more faction...</title><summary type='text'>Everyone who has power is corrupt. As more factions attain power, corruption will be spread more evenly throughout the factions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In N. Korea, one faction alone is able to be completely corrupt, and there are no poets (actually, there might be one, but he&#39;s dead).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, there are more factions, and the leaders of them are all corrupt, but we have the leaders of each faction </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/3517383702994095854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/3517383702994095854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html?showComment=1243535161763#c3517383702994095854' 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/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8725129291725444157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8725129291725444157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6305707432179092136</id><published>2009-05-28T13:04:29.544-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T13:04:29.544-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I agree.  Ron&#39;s reviews of contemporary po...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I agree.  Ron&#39;s reviews of contemporary poetry almost always annoys/bores me.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though I don&#39;t think your &quot;smack down&quot; above applies to the present review.  Ron seems to have read a work and then his &quot;review&quot; comments are all native--born out of--that work.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also usually find these contemporary poetry reviews boring or annoying because I don&#39;t know the work (again</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/6305707432179092136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/6305707432179092136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html?showComment=1243530269544#c6305707432179092136' title=''/><author><name>Georgie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8725129291725444157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8725129291725444157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6337058313405303969</id><published>2009-05-28T10:59:56.162-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T10:59:56.162-04:00</updated><title type='text'>When you consider the work of contemporary poets, ...</title><summary type='text'>When you consider the work of contemporary poets, I hardly ever find your judgments convincing, especially based on the quotations you furnish, and what you find to praise in them.  It may be that you&#39;re responding to the totality of the work, without being able to summarize it in such a way that its power is conveyed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I agree with almost everything you say about poets (and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/6337058313405303969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8725129291725444157/comments/default/6337058313405303969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html?showComment=1243522796162#c6337058313405303969' 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/2009/05/photo-by-laurie-duggan-one-of-joys-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8725129291725444157' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8725129291725444157' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 28, 2009"/></entry></feed>