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Amanda Gorman Poetry Collection ‘Call Us What We Carry’ To Be Published In December



Amanda Gorman, the 23-year-old poet whose reading at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration captured the world’s attention, will release a book of poetry entitled Call Us What We Carry December 7, to be published by Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The 80-page collection, formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, will include her famed inaugural poem as well as exploring “themes of identity, grief, and memory,” according to the publisher. Gorman will narrate the audiobook, which will be published concurrently by Penguin Random House Audio.

In a statement about the upcoming release, Gorman, who was appointed the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017 and was the United States’ youngest inaugural poet, said, “I wrote Call Us What We Carry as a lyric of hope and healing. I wanted to pen a reckoning with the communal grief wrought by the pandemic. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever written, but I knew it had to be. For me, this book is a receptacle, a time capsule both made by and for its era. What is poetry if not a mirror for our present and a message for our future?” The poetry collection will follow the September Viking Books for Young Readers release of Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem, Gorman’s debut children’s picture book, illustrated by Loren Long.

Gorman’s editor, Tamar Brazis, editorial director of Viking Children’s Books, said in the statement, “Amanda Gorman is one of the most exciting voices in American poetry. Even when her poems are tackling themes of conflict and adversity, her message of hope always shines through.” pg

The new book comes in the wake of the success of Gorman’s The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, which was published March 30, and topped numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times NYT +1.2%’ adult fiction list. In a conversation with poet Tracy K. Smith for Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange, Gorman said in June of “The Hill We Climb,” “[W]hen I wrote it, I did not know if it would be possible to recite it at the inauguration. I was watching the insurrection and in my head I didn’t even know if there would be an inauguration. And so it was writing an inaugural poem that I would want to hear, and that’s kind of the way that I inversely think about poetry. It’s not necessarily something that I’m saying. It’s something that I’m listening to.”

Gorman dealt with a speech impediment as a child, which she told Oprah Winfrey in an interview she’s grateful for because it “informs my poetry.” Gorman went on to say, “I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch. When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths."