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Call us what we carry : poems / Amanda Gorman.

By: Gorman, Amanda, 1998- [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [New York] : Viking, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 228 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781784744618Uniform titles: Poems. Selections. Subject(s): Biden, Joseph R., Jr. -- Inaugurations -- Poetry | Inauguration Day -- Poetry | Poetry | United States -- Social aspects -- PoetryGenre/Form: Young adult nonfiction. | Poetry.DDC classification: 811/.6 LOC classification: PS3607.O59774 | A6 2021PS3607.O59774 | C37 2021

Contents:

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

Summary: Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
wnor- Book	Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction	811 .6 /GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31111083551794

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223).

In English.

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

Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration.

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