[New-Poetry] The 20th Century in Poetry

[Roger Day]

1959, Sisters Of Mercy

My birthyear.

On 2/12/07, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
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> Speaking of '1979', that's another good one by Billy Corgan/Smashing
> Pumpkins.
> Finnegan
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> In a message dated 2/11/2007 8:32:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> cstroffo at earthlink.net writes:
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> So 1980 in many ways can be a bogey-man for me! (Boo!
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> Or as Gil Scott Heron put it in his (why not call it a poem?) song lyric
> from 1979---
> "it's 1980 and there ain't no way back to 1975
> much less 1969
> it's 1980 and there ain't nobody ask me no time lately
> how we gonna open the door for 1984...."
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> what year are you IN now? (must choose at least 3....)
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> public time, private time....LIKE wordsworth's 1805 PRELUDE or the 1855
> LEAVES OF GRASS
> (those dates might as well be the TITLE of the poem the way it's treated
> TALKING HEADS'77  is no more of a true title than SEX PISTOLS'77
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> ah the shell game of fashion in a maddening (Hyusmansesque) pallor (parlor)
> oh, and pathos....
>            the time in the composition, continuous peasant
>                 2002, by any other name, would smell as nasal
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