called-the-poem

The Huffington Post’s William Petrocelli recently recounted meeting Al Gore at a signing for Gore’s new book on climate change, Our Choice . The two men discussed why Gore had written and included a poem in the book. Apparently, when Gore’s editor said no to a chapter of doom and gloom predictions, the dogged former VP decided, instead, to distill the potentially disastrous repercussions of global warming into verse. Gore reportedly first joked to his editor that William Butler Yeats had written the resulting poem, and the choice is fitting.