Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

Call us what we carry : poems Amanda Gorman. - New York : Viking, 2021. - 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes poem The hill we climb.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223)

Requiem -- What a piece of wreck is man -- Earth eyes -- Memoria -- Atonement -- Fury & faith -- Resolution.

"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 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."--book jacket.

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American poetry.
American poetry--African American authors.
Poetry--21st century.

PS3607 .O59774 / C37 2021

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