2:75 Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

From her bio at the back of the book, "Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US History." She was also Urban Word's first ever National Youth Poet Laureate. I was blown away by her poem "The Hill We Climb" and it's deliverance at the inauguration but was happy to wait for her full book of poetry to come out rather than the special edition for just that poem.  I'm not not normally a person who reads poetry but something about her work was so powerful and eloquent that it spoke to me on a very deep level.  After reading all of the poems within this book, that one poem was in no way an aberration. She has a unique style, rich and deep and passionate that comes through her poems and these poems will be taking up space in my soul for a long time to come.

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