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 – Kit Fan * 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 – Malala YousafzaiPowerful… poignant… tender… Amanda Gorman’s debut proves that she is poetry’s brightest young thing – Eliz Akdeniz * 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 – Tracy K. SmithA 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 – Kevin Young * The New Yorker *

Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history. She is a committed advocate for the environment, racial equality, and gender justice. In 2017, Urban Word named her the first - ever National Youth Poet Laureate. Gorman’s performance of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration received critical acclaim and international attention. The special edition of her inaugural poem debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and was a Sunday Times Bestseller in the United Kingdom. She is also the author of the children’s picture book Change Sings. After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, she now lives in her hometown of Los Angeles.

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