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For All Of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey (2013)

by Richard Blanco(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0807033804 (ISBN13: 9780807033807)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Beacon Press

review 1: This is the 2014 Seattle Reads choice - their first poet! Blanco will be doing events in Seattle later this month and the library has been providing patrons with copies. A friend passed me one last night and I read it over the course of the next 90 minutes. It starts with his being selected as 5th U.S. Poet Laureate with about three weeks to write three poems for Obama's second inauguration. It makes for a rather perfect introduction to a poet, as person, writer, emerging artist. He takes us behind the scenes if you will (or at least up to Bethel, Maine) during the frenzied process and then the wild days in Washington, DC culminating in his intention to reconnect everyone to the instinctual act of storytelling through poetry. Now I look forward to reading more of his poetr... morey (he included four poems in this short book). True to form I passed the book along to someone else today, because Seattle Reads "For All of Us, One Today."
review 2: I received this as a part of the Goodreads First Reads program. I remember hearing these during the 2013 inauguration. It was wonderful to hear because the poems are filled with such pride in our country, and I really love having a copy to read that includes what is was like to write the poems is incredible. I never thought about how stressful it would be to write these poems. I hope that a lot of people will pick this up-- not only for it's historic value but I really think this could get people to read more poetry because it isn't just the poems it's also about the struggle to create them which is fascinating. less

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