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2021.
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Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021 inauguration. -- adapted from jacket and perusal of book
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Ante la mirada de un mundo sobrecogido tras la invasión del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos, Amanda Gorman tomó la palabra a continuación del presidente Joe Biden. Era la poeta más joven que recitaba en una ceremonia de investidura, como antes lo hicieron Robert Frost o Maya Angelou, y cautivó a millones de personas que veían en ella la luz de una esperanza, y en los versos de La colina que ascendemos la inauguración de una nueva era....
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