Call Us What We Carry: Poems
- ISBN-10
- 0593465075
- ISBN-13
- 9780593465073
- Series
- Call Us What We Carry
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-12-07
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Amanda Gorman
Description
The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet 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, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.
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