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.
