Call Us What We Carry

Overview

The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, now available in paperback and with bonus content!This 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, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Now in paperback and featuring an interview with the author and a discussion guide, Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.

Details

Publisher

Penguin

Published

2024-01-23

Pages

256

Language

EN

Categories

Poetry / American / African American & Black, Poetry / Women Authors, Poetry / American / General

ISBN-13

9780593465080