<?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.post8929824935468643270..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/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/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>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-247158280425396612</id><published>2009-06-30T07:34:57.976-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-30T07:34:57.976-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, you went way too easy on AMERICAN HYBRID--not...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, you went way too easy on AMERICAN HYBRID--not just for the Iowa insiderism that Johannes outlines in his review, but also for its &amp;quot;stylizing&amp;quot; and domesticating of the politics of the avant-garde project, a point Watten has been making in a sort of heroic Sisyphean way.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/247158280425396612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/247158280425396612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246361697976#c247158280425396612' title=''/><author><name>Philip Metres</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05449159681282927289</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eGjQHlCwcMM/SX8cfsdcgeI/AAAAAAAABC8/wEMAwcP_W5k/S220/Phil+and+Adele+2008.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1498505073"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 30, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5136631798182570814</id><published>2009-06-26T19:53:20.164-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T19:53:20.164-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hey&#xa;you really don&amp;#39;t need to know very much It...</title><summary type='text'>hey&lt;br /&gt;you really don&amp;#39;t need to know very much Italian, or Greek, or Latin&lt;br /&gt;to go to a library in Venice&lt;br /&gt;and filch   say some esoteric stuff in an obscure manuscript!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;put it in a &amp;quot;poetic&amp;quot; form and act intelligent!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all of this bull-shit phoniness is what drove Ez nuts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;he was in &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; for the fun it gave him!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5136631798182570814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5136631798182570814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246060400164#c5136631798182570814' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7611694146840211123</id><published>2009-06-26T11:31:55.101-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T11:31:55.101-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lanny, Cantos 24-26 are all Venice from 13th to 16...</title><summary type='text'>Lanny, Cantos 24-26 are all Venice from 13th to 16th C.  LXXVI from the Pisans has a little there.  He&amp;#39;d tell you to check out Browning&amp;#39;s Ring and the Book about a 1698 Roman murder trial.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7611694146840211123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7611694146840211123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246030315101#c7611694146840211123' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1295070952750329085</id><published>2009-06-26T10:13:34.785-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T10:13:34.785-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Has anyone here actually *read*? The anthology?&#xa;&#xa;O...</title><summary type='text'>Has anyone here actually *read*? The anthology?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or is that unnecessary these days?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just curious ...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/1295070952750329085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/1295070952750329085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246025614785#c1295070952750329085' title=''/><author><name>John B-R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-574567698"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8922612725916629502</id><published>2009-06-26T08:36:17.635-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T08:36:17.635-04:00</updated><title type='text'>hey, phanamokean&#xa;&#xa;&#xa;I only saw Ezra once in dungare...</title><summary type='text'>hey, phanamokean&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I only saw Ezra once in dungarees   he had the cuffs rolled up&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the dungarees were Roebucks.. and a baggy fit..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as for &amp;quot;getting into 18 th century Italy&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pound was yet to be born  I think in Idaho&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;where he didn&amp;#39;t found that &amp;quot;writers&amp;quot; program&lt;br /&gt;in Iowa but went east!  to NYC and Yorerope&lt;br /&gt;it</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8922612725916629502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8922612725916629502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246019777635#c8922612725916629502' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8792352639086475363</id><published>2009-06-26T04:08:34.817-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T04:08:34.817-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey Ed!&#xa;&#xa;Did Pound write anything about Casanova? ...</title><summary type='text'>Hey Ed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Pound write anything about Casanova? I don&amp;#39;t have my books with me. Or what about Venice?&lt;br /&gt;Did Pound get &amp;#39;into&amp;#39; 18th Century Italy at all. I never thought about that before. 18th Century Venice is pretty interesting. Kind of a hybrid in itself, a sort of Islamic hangover of social mores coupled with a total decadence of a kind mixed with a state enforced&lt;br </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8792352639086475363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8792352639086475363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246003714817#c8792352639086475363' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7027047106919442677</id><published>2009-06-26T03:32:02.866-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T03:32:02.866-04:00</updated><title type='text'>DCE,&#xa;&#xa;I&amp;#39;ve spent three years, and hundreds upo...</title><summary type='text'>DCE,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ve spent three years, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of my life, counseling young writers who come to me asking about MFA programs to only attend one if it&amp;#39;s free.  I&amp;#39;ve also done a great deal to advocate (and successfully, at that) for better funding at various programs.  For you to suggest that I&amp;#39;m trying to &amp;quot;pressure&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;push&amp;quot; young </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7027047106919442677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7027047106919442677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1246001522866#c7027047106919442677' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_0C6zfNUN2dI/RpI1VX9QIyI/AAAAAAAAACI/Ar7qLwIt4AQ/s400/seth.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 26, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2462323960509219688</id><published>2009-06-25T23:46:55.441-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T23:46:55.441-04:00</updated><title type='text'>As to &amp;quot;conflict averse&amp;quot; I can&amp;#39;t spea...</title><summary type='text'>As to &amp;quot;conflict averse&amp;quot; I can&amp;#39;t speak for other writers/ be they younger or older.  Were I to speak for myself I would have to say that although I prefer peace I am not conflict averse.  It is just that the majority of my conflicts are interior ones. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As to &amp;quot;What is the attraction of not taking a stand?&amp;quot;: freedom, particularly the freedom to make whatever/ </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/2462323960509219688'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/2462323960509219688'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245988015441#c2462323960509219688' title=''/><author><name>brian (baj) salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='15' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aq6Q75KCx78/SVJ_lyyAVpI/AAAAAAAAAOU/-rIvXaOmqOM/S220/azalea+004.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7672017052634294569</id><published>2009-06-25T22:42:47.043-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T22:42:47.043-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I should say regarding politics in Morrow that Car...</title><summary type='text'>I should say regarding politics in Morrow that Carolyn Forche&amp;#39; was permitted to include one poem memorializing Jose Rudolpho Viera from El Salvador without any footnotes explaining who he was, how he died, or what was happening there at the time.  I can tell you thanks to the recent invention of Google that he was a agricultural reformer who was killed by the government in 1981.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7672017052634294569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7672017052634294569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245984167043#c7672017052634294569' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1487542016345618448</id><published>2009-06-25T21:21:20.825-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T21:21:20.825-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Johannes, I liked your review which was concise an...</title><summary type='text'>Johannes, I liked your review which was concise and involved both reading the book and attending Iowa, two things I never got around to doing myself, and look forward to reading the whole thing. The comparison between Hybrid and the Morrow is interesting, as Morrow was my actual introduction to St. John&amp;#39;s work (I mean it this time). Both are wholly devoted to MFA poets, but Morrow spreads the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/1487542016345618448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/1487542016345618448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245979280825#c1487542016345618448' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8445671350017926931</id><published>2009-06-25T16:33:37.219-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T16:33:37.219-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pound didn&amp;#39;t mean but beed&#xa;&#xa;like a poem should...</title><summary type='text'>Pound didn&amp;#39;t mean but beed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;like a poem should not mean but be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;erasable  like erase every 6 th word of Finnegan&amp;#39;s Wake and you got a new form of literature  which I think that there are people who  at university do this for extra credit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pound meant  Irasible  and he actually used an upper case &amp;quot;eye&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;actually he knew a bit of Latin .. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8445671350017926931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8445671350017926931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245962017219#c8445671350017926931' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7097120864807107363</id><published>2009-06-25T14:44:14.069-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T14:44:14.069-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m working on an anthology tentatively titled...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m working on an anthology tentatively titled:  _There Are No Iowa Poets In This.  Seriously._</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7097120864807107363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7097120864807107363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245955454069#c7097120864807107363' title=''/><author><name>Stephanie R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17745691711567675960</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-255486173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7531019178224146788</id><published>2009-06-25T11:43:39.188-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T11:43:39.188-04:00</updated><title type='text'>it&amp;#39;s hard to take a stand against the excesses...</title><summary type='text'>it&amp;#39;s hard to take a stand against the excesses of both sides if it is a conversation that you don&amp;#39;t feel you are a part of. though, there is a general apparatus, a political system of the poetry scene that has become a two-party system. there is a definite politics on both sides and i mean a politics of &amp;quot;scene&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;who you know&amp;quot; or more likely &amp;quot;where did you </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7531019178224146788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7531019178224146788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245944619188#c7531019178224146788' title=''/><author><name>R</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04175809969730449639</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cw_VYGRm1-w/SZiq0z-QpeI/AAAAAAAAAAY/3rwBvuZRH9o/S220/1053_Voice.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1375212339"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3320498218683086314</id><published>2009-06-25T11:34:54.822-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T11:34:54.822-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think one of the main problems of complaining ab...</title><summary type='text'>I think one of the main problems of complaining about poets&amp;#39; degrees, undergrad or otherwise, is that college education has undergone an incredible amount of socialization in our culture. Poets who are now in their 50s or 60s or older would not have had the cultural pressure to attend college as many younger poets have had. (And I would wager that Toscano, when eschewing college, didn&amp;#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/3320498218683086314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/3320498218683086314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245944094822#c3320498218683086314' title=''/><author><name>dce</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13823233817508368014</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-786731280"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7786717618637093833</id><published>2009-06-25T10:38:24.678-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T10:38:24.678-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I too made several of Ian&amp;#39;s point  in a Rainta...</title><summary type='text'>I too made several of Ian&amp;#39;s point  in a Raintaxi review of this anthology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would add that not only is the New York Crew strangely shut out, but, perhaps worse, the selection of Alice Notley is absolutely atrocious, as it picks up a few highly unrepresentative lyrics from Descent of Alette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Johannes</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7786717618637093833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7786717618637093833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245940704678#c7786717618637093833' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1489869036459154654</id><published>2009-06-25T10:33:27.470-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T10:33:27.470-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rodrigo Toscano has just a high school diploma, sa...</title><summary type='text'>Rodrigo Toscano has just a high school diploma, same as me (tho I&amp;#39;m over 60),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/1489869036459154654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/1489869036459154654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245940407470#c1489869036459154654' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8512249125857178589</id><published>2009-06-25T10:22:53.890-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T10:22:53.890-04:00</updated><title type='text'>perhaps it would be interesting or useful to hear ...</title><summary type='text'>perhaps it would be interesting or useful to hear from the editors themselves about how they winnowed the table of contents to the published set of poets</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8512249125857178589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8512249125857178589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245939773890#c8512249125857178589' title=''/><author><name>Chris Vitiello</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05912644626118707168</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='28' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/61/1516/640/selfs.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1601755112"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8074116851195347453</id><published>2009-06-25T10:18:59.653-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T10:18:59.653-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The reference to the Kelly-Leary is welcome once m...</title><summary type='text'>The reference to the Kelly-Leary is welcome once more.  The best thing about that anthology is that it WASN&amp;#39;T a compromise.  Compromise implies that you trim for politically comfortable reasons, you &amp;quot;accommodate&amp;quot; through adjustments.  But Kelly and Leary each ignored the other, and pretended as if the other didn&amp;#39;t exist.  What a novel idea!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only adjustment </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8074116851195347453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/8074116851195347453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245939539653#c8074116851195347453' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5822529762191261768</id><published>2009-06-25T09:55:10.458-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T09:55:10.458-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For point of comparison, this from Stuart Hobbs, a...</title><summary type='text'>For point of comparison, this from Stuart Hobbs, as quoted in Daniel Kane&amp;#39;s *All Poets Welcome*:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;In 1960 only four out of forty four contributors to Donald M. Allen&amp;#39;s *The New American Poets* [sic] had held full or part-time academic employment...but when Allen reissued his anthology...twenty years later the status of the contributors had changed. More than half of the writers,</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5822529762191261768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5822529762191261768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245938110458#c5822529762191261768' title=''/><author><name>Julie Carr</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03343798928172979637</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-277116475"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4469706106477199797</id><published>2009-06-25T09:39:45.772-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T09:39:45.772-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;It would appear that Rod Smith is the only U...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;It would appear that Rod Smith is the only US-born poet under 60 in the anthology that does not hold a graduate degree.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But he is currently enrolled in George Mason&amp;#39;s MFA, and teaches there, according to bios online.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/4469706106477199797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/4469706106477199797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245937185772#c4469706106477199797' title=''/><author><name>dce</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13823233817508368014</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-786731280"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5633640554767486503</id><published>2009-06-25T06:33:51.931-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T06:33:51.931-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I know Primus St. John from our U Md. days.  who i...</title><summary type='text'>I know Primus St. John from our U Md. days.  who is this David St.John: another Interlocutor ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;went to Hopkins  Eliott Coleman  Writing Seminars  1971 rather than Iowa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iowa then too &amp;quot;corn-pone&amp;quot; and restrictive   they were building just another academic program&lt;br /&gt;         just what Poerty than as now doesn&amp;#39;t need. more Credentialists</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5633640554767486503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5633640554767486503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245926031931#c5633640554767486503' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7729758594220361880</id><published>2009-06-25T06:16:14.700-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T06:16:14.700-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed,&#xa;&#xa;now that you&amp;#39;ve reached &amp;#39;darling stat...</title><summary type='text'>Ed,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now that you&amp;#39;ve reached &amp;#39;darling status&amp;#39; I can tell you, the irionese&lt;br /&gt;you speke are legion!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to know, that when Ezra says irascible he means&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;erasable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and that when you speak of the toilets, you can mean no other than&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the analog signal!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;which comes out the &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gol aka ana (see rough japanese </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7729758594220361880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/7729758594220361880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245924974700#c7729758594220361880' 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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3380101138216038091</id><published>2009-06-25T00:24:14.621-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T00:24:14.621-04:00</updated><title type='text'>note: St John didn not in fact edit the anthology ...</title><summary type='text'>note: St John didn not in fact edit the anthology I mentioned in the deleted post, so his change of views on Barbara Guest relied on me combining two similar editors in my mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the above post (&amp;quot;I should add..&amp;quot;) ignore the phrase &amp;quot;in keeping with the previous snubs of Ginberg.. Guest.&amp;quot;  My apologies for any confusion this error caused.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Statistics cited</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/3380101138216038091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/3380101138216038091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245903854621#c3380101138216038091' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5575882382486152846</id><published>2009-06-25T00:12:22.521-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T00:12:22.521-04:00</updated><title type='text'>rabble rabble rabble rabble</title><summary type='text'>rabble rabble rabble rabble</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5575882382486152846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/5575882382486152846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245903142521#c5575882382486152846' 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://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SXXMvQ7yRrI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iHgQG5bXM88/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 25, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3386882446994526907</id><published>2009-06-24T22:34:27.865-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-24T22:34:27.865-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I should add that out of 74 poets in the anthology...</title><summary type='text'>I should add that out of 74 poets in the anthology, at least 35 have either taught or studied at Iowa Writers&amp;#39; Workshop, a figure which includes the two editors. Out of the 35, at least 25 have been on the Iowa faculty. Seven others have taught or studied at Brown, a figure that doesn&amp;#39;t include those who taught or studied at both Brown and Iowa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those figures don&amp;#39;t include </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/3386882446994526907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8929824935468643270/comments/default/3386882446994526907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html?showComment=1245897267865#c3386882446994526907' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2009/06/american-hybrid-is-important-book-but.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8929824935468643270' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8929824935468643270' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 24, 2009"/></entry></feed>