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Call Us What We Carry: Poems is a 2021 poetry collection by Amanda Gorman and her first full-length poetry volume. Published by Viking, it is arranged in seven sections and addresses the COVID-19 pandemic through poems concerned with collective grief, memory, hope and social responsibility; the coll...
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Ambitious historical range and accessible pandemic testimony; reviews praise urgency but often find the language uneven and overextended.
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The Hill We Climb is a 2021 book-length publication of a poem by American poet Amanda Gorman. Gorman recited the poem at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021, and the published edition preserves that work for readers outside the original ceremony. Its subj...
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Major cultural resonance and broad popularity, but literary assessments are mixed regarding simplicity, conventional uplift, and slim scope.
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