Call Us What We Carry

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Powerful… poignant… tender… Amanda Gorman’s debut proves that she is poetry’s brightest young thing

    Tatler

  • 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

  • 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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