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of microphones --
This bloom that begins
all along the spine.
The engineer and thinker Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was the child of slaves who had bought their freedom and helped survey the land for Washington. His gifts and knowledge are part of the poem's interest in technical matters. That people stopped to hear Anderson's performance "everywhere" is not mere hyperbole: The performance was broadcast to a large, attentive radio audience. Young's poem is partly about broadcast media: Radio, with its "bouquet of microphones," enabled this historic event that still blooms along some central avenue of our national imagination. ยท
(Kevin Young's poem "Springtime Comes to the Capitol" is from his book "For the Confederate Dead." Borzoi. Copyright 2007 by Kevin Young.)
Robert Pinsky's most recent book of poetry is "Jersey Rain."
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