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Call Us What We Carry

Amanda Gorman

Start date: March 1, 2024

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Jan 09, 2022 Rae added it

Shelves: reading-language-poetry-essays, 2022

Covid. Race relations. Environment. Erasure poems. She’s good.

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Jan 08, 2023 Christina, Join Me on Storygraph! rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2023-reading-challenge-gr-winners, 2023

Poetry is challenging to my literal brain. Slowing down is difficult for my "get to the point" self. Sometime, it's important to challenge ourselves and this book of petry was a pretty good fit for me. Sometimes, I was in the middle of a poem when its topic would suddenly occur to me, and there were a few I just didn't get. No matter, the work is beautiful. ...more

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Jul 19, 2022 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: poetry

I was blown away by Amanda Gorman when she read The Hill We Climb at President Biden's inauguration. I immediately whipped out my phone and pre-ordered this book. Unfortunately, it left me feeling disappointed.

This is a rather long collection. She wrote many poems during the pandemic, and it seems she decided to include EVERY one of them.

I feel like Gorman must have an ideas notebook that she uses to jot things down, and then someone stole her notebook and published it before she had a chance t ...more

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