LoveReading Says
In 2021, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day Joe Biden became President and became about as famous as a poet can be. This poetry collection is the follow up to that award-winning
The Hill We Climb she delivered that day which received critical acclaim and international recognition. She was a ray of sunshine in her yellow suit. I was spellbound, and I’ll be honest, frantically googling her to find out more about her.
On the cover of Call Us What We Carry Malala Yousafzai says: "this is 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." And I couldn’t agree more.
Call Us What We Carry is dedicated to all of us "both hurting and healing who choose to carry on". It features 70 poems which talk about the collective grief of a global pandemic as well as touching upon the themes of race, identity, grief. The book closes with The Hill We Climb.
The poems enclosed within are hopeful. They are powerful. They are beautiful. They are honest. It’s all so powerfully and beautifully structured and cleverly presented and her poems feature wonderful wordplay.
They shout out to be read aloud. And I found myself doing just that during the several times I have already read it.
Gorman revisits history throughout the book, speaking about living through the pandemic and linking it back to historical times. Referring back to the inspirations for the poetry. It feels very intimate whilst so all-encompassing and so very timely. Of now.
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Call Us What We Carry Synopsis
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
About This Edition
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9781529924602 |
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25th January 2024 |
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Amanda Gorman |
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Vintage an imprint of Random House |
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Paperback |
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240 pages |
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Poetry
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Amanda Gorman Press 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
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 -- Eliz Akdeniz - 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
A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world - Guardian,50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021*
A thoughtful gift for Christmas, but make sure to get one for yourself too - Waitrose Weekend
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 -- Kevin Young - The New Yorker
