One Today: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822962519 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 28 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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""Hope--a new constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it--together."" according to Foster Corbin. A Democratic president with a black African father and a Caucasian American mother selecting a gay Cuban American to write a poem for his second inauguration-- surely this is the stuff that history is made of! As I watched Richard Blanco read "One Today" on a ceiling-to-floor television screen at the Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta, in the . This poem is a treasure. GoaterBoater I feel fortunate to have heard it delivered by Richard Blanco during the inauguration and had to own a copy. I love it.. Harriet Q. Chipley said Bringing us together.. A wonderful, sweeping portrait of Americawhile, at the same time, a beautiful way of uniting our differences. Every time I read it, I feel more connected to all the people in this land.
Richard’s writing will be wonderfully fitting for an inaugural that will celebrate the strength of the American people and our nation’s great diversity.”—President Barack Obama. “Blanco’s contributions to the fields of poetry and the arts have already paved a path forward for future generations of writers
One Today is a commemorative chapbook of Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem, presented January 21, 2013 during President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony.