Call Us What We Carry

**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.