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  <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Ron Silliman has written and edited 30 books to date, most recently articipating in the multi-volume collaborative autobiography, The Grand Piano. Between 1979 &amp; 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled &lt;i&gt;The Alphabet.&lt;/i&gt; In addition to &lt;i&gt;Woundwood,&lt;/i&gt; a part of &lt;i&gt;VOG&lt;/i&gt;, volumes published thus far from that project have included &lt;i&gt;ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (R), Toner, What&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Xing.&lt;/i&gt; The University of Alabama Press will publish the entire work as a single volume in 2008. Silliman has now begun writing a new poem entitled &lt;i&gt;Universe.&lt;/i&gt;

Silliman was the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Williams, Zukofsky, Olson, Creeley, Stein, Spicer, Duncan, Grenier, Watten, Armantrout, Hejinian, ]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>08/05/1946</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The New Sentence]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>64</ratings_count>
  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Age of Huts]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.48</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>56</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[In the American Tree]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.44</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>54</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tjanting]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.33</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>30</ratings_count>
  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Under Albany]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.15</average_rating>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Alphabet]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Lit]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.42</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12</ratings_count>
  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Xing]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Demo to Ink]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.30</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>10</ratings_count>
  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[What]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Ron Silliman]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>7</ratings_count>
  <published>1988</published>  
  
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