TY - BOOK AU - Gorman,Amanda TI - Call us what we carry: poems SN - 0593465067 AV - PS3607 .O59774 C37 2021 U1 - 811/.6 23/eng/20211102 PY - 2021/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - American poetry KW - African American authors KW - Poetry KW - 21st century N1 - Includes poem The hill we climb; Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223); Requiem -- What a piece of wreck is man -- Earth eyes -- Memoria -- Atonement -- Fury & faith -- Resolution N2 - "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, these poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future."--book jacket ER -