to the moment itself," she [Elizabeth Alexander] said in an interview, "but what you hope for, as an artist, is to create something that has integrity and life that goes beyond the moment."To prepare, she has delved into W. H. Auden, particularly his "Musée des Beaux Arts" ("About suffering they were never wrong/The Old Masters"), and the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize, for poetry. Auden, she said, "asked very large questions about how we stand in history."
from The New York Times: Poet Chosen for Inauguration Is Aiming for a Work That Transcends the Moment
also The Washington Post: Selection Provides Civil Rights Symmetry
also Investor's Business Daily: An X-Rated Inaugural?
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