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  • Barack Obama still has time for a little poetry - Telegraph

    From the page: "Three days after winning the presidential election, Barack Obama was spotted in Chicago carrying a book of poems by Derek Walcott, the West Indies Nobel laureate." All politics aside, I love this: that "spotted carrying a book of poems" is notable is enough,... more

    Reviewed by Klassy Nov 09 2008, 11:15am ( 2 reviews ) • telegraph.co.uk

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  • Rated by Klassy on Nov 09 2008, 11:15am

    From the page: "Three days after winning the presidential election, Barack Obama was spotted in Chicago carrying a book of poems by Derek Walcott, the West Indies Nobel laureate." All politics aside, I love this: that "spotted carrying a book of poems" is notable is enough, but it's really the thought of a person making room for poetry in his life, so much that he carries a book of poems around, never mind the weight of it (hey, at least books have spines), that really gets me.