Haunting... A soaring sense of history and solidarity pervades Gorman's debut collection... Call Us What We Carry is wide awake to the complex strata of human history and restlessly original in its poetic form... This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy

A book of poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it, to read it all at once, and then immediately read it again

Powerful... poignant... tender... Amanda Gorman's debut proves that she is poetry's brightest young thing

Between breath, light, water and soil, text messages and letters, and visual formations of ships, whales and flags, Gorman's Call Us What We Carry is an inventive literary resurrection

Amanda Gorman is a seer, a seeker, a speaker of our most difficult and astonishing truths. Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to

A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world

A thoughtful gift for Christmas, but make sure to get one for yourself too

In "penning a letter to the world as a daughter of it," Gorman doesn't merely transcribe a diary of a plague year; her bold, oracular pronouncements bear witness to collective experience, with an uncanny confidence and a prescient tone that are all the poet's own

Empathic... Gorman has a talent for speaking directly and precisely, but knows, too, the power of embellishment

A poet of real promise

The liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our resilience and survival showcase a powerful griot for our times

I think we all need more poetry - specifically her [Amanda Gorman's] poetry - in our lives

'The Hill We Climb': A young Black woman helping to turn the page to a more hopeful chapter in American leadership... It made me so happy

'The Hill We Climb': The perfect example of what poetry can do

An inspired anthem for the next generation-a remarkable poetry debut

Many forms (including some erasures, among other visual frameworks, such as poems that look like text message bubbles) give this collection impressive variety. Gorman's thoughtfulness and activist spirit shine through on every page

How Gorman has arrived so young at a place of such accomplishment is as compelling as her art itself... She is a Gen Z Angelino who brings the fresh self-awareness and frankness of youth to these pages with a prosody that is as playful as it is stern

Amanda Gorman is a force to be reckoned with... [an] impressive collection... she's most poignant and shows her masterful use of the English language... pretty inspiring stuff from a young poet who's just at the start of her career

Gorman is at her best when stripping things down... There, she's most poignant and shows her masterful use of the English language... inspiring stuff