Call Us What We Carry
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Summary
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman
‘Poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it’ Malala Yousafzai
The luminous poetry collection 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 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.
‘A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world’ Guardian
‘Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to’ Tracy K. Smith
‘The liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our resilience and survival showcases a powerful griot for our times’ Oprah Daily
‘Poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it’ Malala Yousafzai
The luminous poetry collection 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 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.
‘A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world’ Guardian
‘Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to’ Tracy K. Smith
‘The liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our resilience and survival showcases a powerful griot for our times’ Oprah Daily
Reviews
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
Kit Fan, Guardian
