http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/my-own-private-inauguration/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:59:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/my-own-private-inauguration/#comment-7061 Beth Blakeman Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:12:36 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1248#comment-7061 To Wanda Coleman: Dear Wanda, Your beautiful beautiful private inauguration is words, but beyond words. I was in my kitchen cooking and baking and watching every move and caressing every word. Next to my fireplace is a gold framed front page of the Albuquerque Journal of Barack Obama waving from the day he won the election. I sit beneath it when I watch television. He is my hero. He is my leader. He is my sherpa for the long road ahead. I would like your personal permission to take your beautiful words and display them inside the frame with him. May I have it? Sincerely, Renée Blake Albuquerque, New Mexico To Wanda Coleman:
Dear Wanda,
Your beautiful beautiful private inauguration is words, but beyond words. I was in my kitchen cooking and baking and watching every move and caressing every word. Next to my fireplace is a gold framed front page of the Albuquerque Journal of Barack Obama waving from the day he won the election. I sit beneath it when I watch television. He is my hero. He is my leader. He is my sherpa for the long road ahead. I would like your personal permission to take your beautiful words and display them inside the frame with him. May I have it?
Sincerely,
Renée Blake
Albuquerque, New Mexico

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/my-own-private-inauguration/#comment-7060 martin Earl Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:37:51 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1248#comment-7060 I love these capsule descriptions you do. They're dense and declarative and speak pages; index card, postcard-sized descriptions, wealth of detail, they speed-feed the reader. This one is like Whitman in a nutshell. Absolutely beautiful. Martin ps...check our Eliott Erwitt's photo spread in Newsweek, similar density and gathering. I love these capsule descriptions you do. They’re dense and declarative and speak pages; index card, postcard-sized descriptions, wealth of detail, they speed-feed the reader. This one is like Whitman in a nutshell. Absolutely beautiful.
Martin
ps…check our Eliott Erwitt’s photo spread in Newsweek, similar density and gathering.

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