Call Us What We Carry

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 tö 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