Call Us What We Carry by Amanda GormanCall Number: PS3607.O59774 C37 2021
ISBN: 9780593465066
Publication Date: 2021-12-07
The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States
The final poem in the book is The Hill We Climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration.
The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet 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, her 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