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 sh
