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Call Us What We Carry
- Author
- Amanda Gorman
- Narrator
- Amanda Gorman
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 7 December 2021
- Run Time
- 3 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman's remarkable new collection reveals an energizing and unforgettable poetic voice. Call Us What We Carry is Gorman at her finest. Bursting with musical language and exploring themes of identity, grief, and memory, this lyric of hope and healing captures an important moment in our collective consciousness while being utterly timeless
© Amanda Gorman 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Haunting... A soaring sense of history and solidarity pervades Gorman's debut collection... Call Us What We Carry is wide awake to the complex strata of human history and restlessly original in its poetic form... This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy
Guardian
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A book of poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it, to read it all at once, and then immediately read it again
Malala Yousafzai
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Powerful... poignant... tender... Amanda Gorman's debut proves that she is poetry's brightest young thing
Tatler
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Between breath, light, water and soil, text messages and letters, and visual formations of ships, whales and flags, Gorman's Call Us What We Carry is an inventive literary resurrection
Daily Mail
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Amanda Gorman is a seer, a seeker, a speaker of our most difficult and astonishing truths. Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to
Tracy K. Smith
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A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world
Guardian, *50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021*
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A thoughtful gift for Christmas, but make sure to get one for yourself too
Waitrose Weekend
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In "penning a letter to the world as a daughter of it," Gorman doesn't merely transcribe a diary of a plague year; her bold, oracular pronouncements bear witness to collective experience, with an uncanny confidence and a prescient tone that are all the poet's own
The New Yorker
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Empathic... Gorman has a talent for speaking directly and precisely, but knows, too, the power of embellishment
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A poet of real promise
Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Amanda Gorman
- Narrator
- Amanda Gorman
- Duration
- 3 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 December 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473596566
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Social issues
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, Amanda Gorman's remarkable new collection reveals an energizing and unforgettable poetic voice. Call Us What We Carry is Gorman at her finest. Bursting with musical language and exploring themes of identity, grief, and memory, this lyric of hope and healing captures an important moment in our collective consciousness while being utterly timeless© Amanda Gorman 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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