ladynutelladuck 's review for:

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

3.0

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Certain parts seemed like they were trying too hard, repetitive, or like they rushed the book before she had enough of her best work to share (which makes sense, with her being young but them also wanting to ride the wave of the huge success that was her amazing inauguration poem), but others were great.

Favorite poems and favorite lines:

"Shall this leave us bitter?
Or better?
Grieve.
Then choose."

"Since the world is round,
There is no way to walk away
From each other, for even then
We are coming back together."

Good Grief

"Our wounds, too, are our windows.
Through them we watch the world."

"Lost as we feel, there is no better
Compass than compassion."

Hephaestus

"Cordage, or Atonement"

Lucent

Earth Eyes

Pre-Memory

Who We Gonna Call

"It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that sneaks up a tree, killing not by poison, but by blocking out its light.
. . . Ignorance isn't bliss. Ignorance is to miss: to block ourselves from seeing sky."

"a slur is a sound that beasts us."

"Hate only survives when hosted in humans.
If we are to give it anything,
Let it be our sorrow
& never our skin."

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America

Fury & Faith

"We have battled hard to be."
"Would we crave peace if we knew what it was."

The Truth in One Nation

Libations

"We'll observe how the burdens braved by humankind
Are also the moments that make us humans kind"

Augury or The Birds

"distance
Renders all massiveness
Carriable."

The Hill We Climb