Obama, poet
"He takes the subtext of the poem to be Obama’s reckoning with his absent father, for whom his grandfather is, inevitably, an inadequate substitute. "“This is, in effect, his own father,”" Bloom said."
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"He takes the subtext of the poem to be Obama’s reckoning with his absent father, for whom his grandfather is, inevitably, an inadequate substitute. "“This is, in effect, his own father,”" Bloom said."
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