The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural
poet Amanda Gorman'This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy' Guardian'This
is more than protest. It's a promise.' Including The Hill We Climb the stirring poem read at
the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden this luminous poetry
collection by 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 these seventy poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and
reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past our voice for the future. 'I think
we all need more poetry - specifically her poetry - in our lives' i *A PRIMA 'BOOKS TO GIVE
WITH LOVE' PICK*Praise for 'The Hill We Climb': 'I was profoundly moved... The power of your
words blew me away' Michelle Obama TIME'I was thrilled' Hillary Clinton'She spoke truth to
power and embodied clear-eyed hope to a weary nation. She revealed us to ourselves' Lin-Manuel
Miranda TIME
