Call Us What We Carry Poems
Author: Amanda Gorman
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781784744618
£14.99
Book Description
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
‘This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy.’ – Guardian
‘This is more than protest. It’s a promise.’
Including ‘The Hill We Climb,’ the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry collection by Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage.
Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, these seventy poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future. ‘I think we all need more poetry – specifically her poetry – in our lives’ – i A PRIMA ‘BOOKS TO GIVE WITH LOVE’ PICK 2021
Praise for ‘The Hill We Climb’:
‘I was profoundly moved… The power of your words blew me away.’ – Michelle Obama, TIME
‘I was thrilled.’ – Hillary Clinton
‘She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves.’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda, TIME
