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Date Posted: 11:48:59 06/19/01 Tue
Author: Dream Poet
Author Host/IP: 212.67.96.137
Subject: Re: Leftover 70's Toast
In reply to: Gabriella 's message, "Leftover 70's Toast" on 08:31:21 06/17/01 Sun

The wallpaper of previous years, there all the time - because its memory might be a work of art or an iconoclastic image of what we were presented as what we are. You present a picture of the seventies populated with icons and images of the 50s and 60s - which in essence is what much of the 70s was about - I guess European elite society are the Porsche owners- James Dean's last breath taken in a Porsche - Metal smashed twisted artform- pictured to tell the world. Even Nixon's fatal error was rooted in what he did or did not know about something that happened in 1968. It gives the impression that the 70s was a dance with the ghosts of the past - even the punks(in Engalnd at least) had a love affair with "The Who". I suspect everything that happens is somehow infected with "ghost" of what has happened in the past. But as I understand your poem in its closing lines- its the sanitised pastiche some would present as the 70s that you cannot swallow. Again I can only say what impressions I have of your poem- it could be a million miles from what you are actually saying. I was tempted to say more but it seemed as though you cover a subject that could provoke yet another telling of the history of the world in the 20th century. Good thought provoking work- I liked it.

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