Discussion of the Day: Al Gore, Poet
Vanity Fair’s Mark Hertsgaard gushes over a “surprisingly accomplished, nuanced piece of writing” in the form of a poem in Al Gore’s new climate change treatise, Our Choice. A taste:
Now, with the publication of his new book, Our Choice, Gore has unveiled a fresh and most unexpected talent: the book’s opening chapter of concludes with a poem he wrote—21 lines of verse that are equal parts beautiful, evocative, and disturbing.
Here is how the poem begins:
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sunVapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Check out the complete article for more snippets of the poem and lots more fawning. As is so often the case, the comments thread is where the fun is (9 pages and counting…)
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