Call Us What We Carry

<p><b>The breakout poetry collection by <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman<br><br>'This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'This is more than protest. <br>It's a promise.'</b><br><br>Including The Hill We Climb the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden this luminous poetry collection by 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 these seventy 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.<br><br><b>'I think we all need more poetry - specifically her poetry - in our lives' <i>i </i><br><br>*A PRIMA 'BOOKS TO GIVE WITH LOVE' PICK*<br><br>Praise for 'The Hill We Climb':</b><br><br><b>'I was profoundly moved... The power of your words blew me away' Michelle Obama TIME<br><br>'I was thrilled' Hillary Clinton<br><br>'She spoke truth to power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves' Lin-Manuel Miranda <i>TIME</i></b></p>