Call Us What We Carry Polished dress with just the

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Tabitha grounds her lessons in stories about her own life

Or will her past destroy her future

and responsibility of power and leadership

journalist and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Call Us What We Carry Polished dress with just theFormerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the 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