Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hill We Climb and Call Us What We Carry, as well as the children’s picture books Change Sings and Something, Someday. Amanda is a committed advocate for the environment, racial equality, and gender justice. In a groundbreaking collaboration with the Estée Lauder Companies as a Global Changemaker, she established the "Writing Change" initiative to support grassroots organizations dedicated to advancing literacy as a pathway to social change. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University and now lives in her hometown of Los Angeles. Please visit her at TheAmandaGorman.com or on Instagram @AmandaSCGorman.
Praise for Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman:
★ “An inspired anthem for the next generation—a remarkable poetry
debut.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “Gorman’s newest poetry collection offers a stunning amalgamation
of poems formatted in different styles to convey a message of
sorrow, unity, and collective healing . . . Gorman’s poetry
operates as a perfect combination of part elegy and part call to
action. This stunning collection belongs on every shelf.” –
Booklist, starred review
★ “At once heartbreaking and deeply healing, Gorman's collection
calls readers to their best selves, even--or especially--in the
face of great loss.” – Shelf Awareness, starred review
“Gorman’s thoughtfulness and activist spirit shine through on every
page.” —Publishers Weekly
“In seven sections and through poems that often experiment with
form, the book sets out to tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic
from a collective point of view, with Gorman exploring the grief,
hope and wisdom that come from a period of shared tragedy.
—Time.com
“Gorman doesn’t merely transcribe a diary of a plague year; her
bold, oracular pronouncements bear witness to collective
experience, with an uncanny confidence and a prescient tone that
are all the poet’s own.” —New Yorker
“Amanda Gorman . . . reckons with America's present, particularly
with the pandemic. Through the lens of the country's history, she
shows us the path toward healing.” —NPR
“Gorman shows us what an honor it is to witness history and to
survive it, even if it doesn’t always feel that way. . . The
liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our
resilience and survival showcases a powerful griot for our times.”
—OprahDaily.com
“Call Us What We Carry is thought-provoking and lyrical. Her
poetry places readers back in the days of quarantine, back in
that loneliness, and it makes us reflect on how far we've come and
how far we still need to go.” —USA Today
“Her poetry insists that not just she but an entire country is
capable of growing itself to a place of glory, like Tupac’s rose in
concrete. Her emergence in this very moment is the instantiation of
our ability to press on. We shall overcome goes the spiritual, but
‘We have survived us’ is what Gorman says. As she looks ahead in
these pages, she is like Washington crossing the Delaware. ‘We must
change/This ending in every way.’” —The Washington Post
“In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman has written a mnemonic symphony
of hope and solidarity in the face of the ‘vanishing meaning’ of
our time, speaking eloquently with ‘the lip of tomorrow.’” —The
Guardian
“Between breath, light, water and soil, text messages and letters,
and visual formations of ships, whales and flags, Gorman’s Call Us
What We Carry is an inventive literary resurrection.” —AP
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