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Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

December 16, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I suspect like most of the world, I learned who Amanda Gorman was within hours of Joe Biden’s inauguration. Turns out her collection Call us What We Carry is every bit as good as “The Hill We Climb” which is included as the final poem in the book. I should be up front, I don’t typically read poetry for fun, in part because I work with it so much professionally. Gorman’s book though is an exception, even more so in that it wasn’t a struggle […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Amanda Gorman, American poet, Call Us What We Carry, contemporary poetry, poetry

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:103 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Amanda Gorman, American poet, Call Us What We Carry, contemporary poetry, poetry ·
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“The worst thing about being naked and then being hit by a car is that road rash is a problem for skin.”

September 27, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I might be a little burned out with poetry or just have heard and read so much of Neil Hilborn, that I am not jumping up and down over The Future by him as I have with his other book or with other Button Poetry Poets. Yet, The Future is still amazing. He knows what he is talking about with depression, life and death. He has lived, and is living, his subject matter. He “gets it” and wants to share that with you. He is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: American poet, American Poetry, Death, Depression, grief, loss, Love, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:365 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: American poet, American Poetry, Death, Depression, grief, loss, Love, Social Themes ·
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