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Amanda Gorman composes a poetic inauguration Poetry is having a moment as America is riveted by a poem (and poet) that captures a country s and inauguration s inflection point. January 22, 2021 5:36pm Text size Copy shortlink: You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose is a memorable Mario Cuomo quote that took an added dimension after Amanda Gorman s gorgeous poem, The Hill We Climb, captured this week s inaugural inflection point between two presidencies.
The poem, concurrently introspective and inspiring, spoke to a dispirited nation that has careened from crises ranging from a raging pandemic, to rage in cities, to an attack on the democratic process that culminated in the inauguration itself. Read radiantly by the poised, 22-year-old national youth poet laureate, Americans paid unusual attention to poetry and more profoundly, the real state of the nation right from these opening stanzas: