Call Us What We Carry

Haunting… A soaring sense of history and solidarity pervades Gorman’s debut collection… Call Us What We Carry is wide awake to the complex strata of human history and restlessly original in its poetic form… This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy * Guardian *
A book of poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it, to read it all at once, and then immediately read it again
Powerful… poignant… tender… Amanda Gorman’s debut proves that she is poetry’s brightest young thing * Tatler *
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 * Daily Mail *
Amanda Gorman is a seer, a seeker, a speaker of our most difficult and astonishing truths. Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to
A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world * Guardian, 50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021 *
A thoughtful gift for Christmas, but make sure to get one for yourself too * Waitrose Weekend *
In “penning a letter to the world as a daughter of it,” 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 * The New Yorker *
Empathic… Gorman has a talent for speaking directly and precisely, but knows, too, the power of embellishment * i *
A poet of real promise * Daily Telegraph *

Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history. She is a committed advocate for the environment, racial equality, and gender justice. Amanda’s activism and poetry have been featured on The Today Show, PBS Kids, and CBS This Morning, and in The New York Times, Vogue, Essence, and O, The Oprah Magazine. In 2017, Urban Word named her the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, she now lives in her hometown of Los Angeles. The special edition of her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb,” will be published in March 2021. Her debut picture book, Change Sings, and the breakout poetry collection The Hill We Climb and Other Poems will be published in September 2021.

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