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 Obama "poet" to highlight new administration draws questionable reviews web posted December 22, 2008 WASHINGTON DC – President Elect Barack Obama is only the third president to have a poet deliver a personalized poem at his inauguration. The only other two were John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. However, Pres-elect Obama’s choice has raised some eyebrows as the unknown Yale “African-American studies professor” and former Chicago neighbor and family chum Elizabeth Alexander seems to have a rather strange sense of poetry. Robert Frost, who read his “The Gift Outright” for John F. Kennedy in 1961 was a welcome start, but Alexander is no Robert Frost, critics are quick to point out. Below is an example of Alexander’s “works”. “Is “funky, is “leaky, is “a soggy, bloody crotch, is “sharp jets of breast milk shot straight across the room, “is gaudy, mustard-colored poop, is “postpartum tears that soak the baby’s lovely head. Another passage: “Shockingly vital, mammoth giblet, “the second living thing to break free “of my body in fifteen minutes. “The midwife presents it on a platter. “We do not eat, have no Tupperware “to take it home and sanctify a tree.” Alexander told the Associated Press: Obama “is a man who understands that words bring power, who understands the power of language, the integrity of language, that it's not just idle,” Alexander told the Guardian in London. “To be asked to turn my own words to this occasion and for this person is all but overwhelming It's the balance between listening to the muse and speaking to many, many people." ©
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