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An Inaugural Poet's Journey
Beacon Press
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
120 pages ISBN: 0807033804 EAN: 9780807033807 Kindle: B00EGMB5XE Paperback / e-Book
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Fiction Poetry
For All of Us, One Today is a fluid, poetic
account of Richard Blanco's life-changing experiences as the
inaugural poet in 2013. In this brief and evocative
narrative, he shares the story of the call from the White
House committee and all the exhilaration and upheaval of the
days that followed. For the first time, he reveals the
inspiration and challenges—including his experiences as a
Latino immigrant and gay man—behind the creation of the
inaugural poem, "One Today," as well as two other poems
commissioned for the occasion ("Mother Country" and "What We
Know of Country"), published here for the first time ever,
alongside translations of all three of those poems into his
native Spanish. Finally, Blanco reflects on his new role as
a public voice, his vision for poetry's place in our
nation's consciousness, his spiritual embrace of Americans
everywhere, and his renewed understanding of what it means
to be an American as a result of the inauguration.
Like the inaugural poem itself, For All of Us,
One Today speaks to what makes this country and its
people great, marking a historic moment of hope and promise
in our evolving American landscape.
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