Goodreads asked Randy Lacey:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Randy Lacey The Year to Remember and A Year to Forget are my most recent works. Both books are the accumulation of poems written in 2020. This was a year we should remember for many reasons, but it is also a year worthy of forgetting for many other reasons.
I guess the famous quote, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" played a part in the title creation. The poems inside sprang up from my daily life, living in a small town.

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