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jenmangler's review
5.0
I highlighted so many sections and made so many notes as I was reading this. Wow! Gorman really made me think and feel with this collection. I will definitely come back to this for a re-read. Highly recommend.
mikaylamarie's review
It was just too long for me, and way too much talk about ships. I might go back to it someday though because there are a few gems.
liam_raphael's review
5.0
Beautiful writing, and Amanda Gorman’s narration of the audiobook was deeply moving and made me feel a lot of things.
There were so many amazing lines, but the quote that stood out to me was “When we can’t make a difference, we will still make a sound”
There were so many amazing lines, but the quote that stood out to me was “When we can’t make a difference, we will still make a sound”
scarahs's review against another edition
5.0
“The densest despair takes us to no ordinary joy / Sometimes diving into the deep inside us is the only way we rise above it.” This book of poems by Amanda Gorman is powerful, raw, beautiful, resonant, and evocative. She tells the (his)story of America through the pandemic(s)… I listened to the audiobook version where Amanda reads her own poems and found myself at different moments moved to tears, holding my breath, pausing, rewinding, replaying to listen again and again. Some of favorites were: Good Grief, _ _ _ _ _ [Gated], Monomyth, and Essex II (from which the above quote is taken). I am going to get my own hard copy of the book because I want to see the visuals of her words on the page, and I want to go back and reread her poems, and remember. I also learned about a kind of poem I’d never heard of before: erasure poems.
sarkynir's review
4.0
I was incredibly impressed by Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem The Hill We Climb when I first listened to her perform it.
This book is a collection of history and perseverance through COVID, police brutality, and political and personal unrest. Wonderful wordsmith.
This book is a collection of history and perseverance through COVID, police brutality, and political and personal unrest. Wonderful wordsmith.