Taking his cue from Wallace Stevens who said that poetry is the “supreme fiction,” Al Gore, as you may know, has published a climate change poem in his new book, Our Choice . The first stanza is actually not too bad, but it falls apart quicker than an arctic iceberg after that, alas.
What’s next for the indefatigable Gore? Rap?
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