Author: Gorman, Amanda
Poetry
Published on 25 January 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 256 pages
197 x 128 x 18 | 184g
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 YousafzaiThe 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