Call Us What We Carry
Poems
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
This luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman...
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Amanda Gorman
- 2024, 256 Seiten, Maße: 14,2 x 20,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593465083
- ISBN-13: 9780593465080
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman:An inspired anthem for the next generation a remarkable poetry debut. Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Gorman s newest poetry collection offers a stunning amalgamation of poems formatted in different styles to convey a message of sorrow, unity, and collective healing . . . Gorman s poetry operates as a perfect combination of part elegy and part call to action. This stunning collection belongs on every shelf. Booklist, starred review
At once heartbreaking and deeply healing, Gorman's collection calls readers to their best selves, even--or especially--in the face of great loss. Shelf Awareness, starred review
Gorman s thoughtfulness and activist spirit shine through on every page. Publishers Weekly
In seven sections and through poems that often experiment with form, the book sets out to tell the story of the COVID-19 pandemic from a collective point of view, with Gorman exploring the grief, hope and wisdom that come from a period of shared tragedy. Time.com
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. New Yorker
Amanda Gorman . . . reckons with America's present, particularly with the pandemic. Through the lens of the country's history, she shows us the path toward healing. NPR
Gorman shows us what an honor it is to witness history and to survive it, even if it doesn t always feel that way. . . The liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our resilience and survival showcases a powerful griot for our times. OprahDaily.com
Call Us What We Carry is thought-provoking and lyrical. Her poetry places readers back in the days of quarantine, back in that loneliness, and it makes us reflect on how
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far we've come and how far we still need to go. USA Today
Her poetry insists that not just she but an entire country is capable of growing itself to a place of glory, like Tupac s rose in concrete. Her emergence in this very moment is the instantiation of our ability to press on. We shall overcome goes the spiritual, but We have survived us is what Gorman says. As she looks ahead in these pages, she is like Washington crossing the Delaware. We must change/This ending in every way. The Washington Post
In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman has written a mnemonic symphony of hope and solidarity in the face of the vanishing meaning of our time, speaking eloquently with the lip of tomorrow. The Guardian
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. AP
Her poetry insists that not just she but an entire country is capable of growing itself to a place of glory, like Tupac s rose in concrete. Her emergence in this very moment is the instantiation of our ability to press on. We shall overcome goes the spiritual, but We have survived us is what Gorman says. As she looks ahead in these pages, she is like Washington crossing the Delaware. We must change/This ending in every way. The Washington Post
In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman has written a mnemonic symphony of hope and solidarity in the face of the vanishing meaning of our time, speaking eloquently with the lip of tomorrow. The Guardian
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. AP
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