Call Us What We Carry

The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.

'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.