“When I’m performing a poem live, what I’m really thinking about is how it sounds,” Gorman said. She’s seen Instagram photos of people gifting it to one another, stuffing copies into Easter baskets: “That’s something you can’t do with a video, you can’t do with a performance, but once it’s physicalized, all of a sudden it can be interwoven into the ways people celebrate and cherish each other.” “I was really excited when ‘The Hill We Climb’ became a book, because I knew it would be able to be integrated into people’s lives in new ways,” she said in a phone interview. Now her words are reaching readers in a more private format, too: A 32-page commemorative edition of her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb” - featuring a foreword by Oprah Winfrey - enters the fiction list this week at No. A STAR IS BORN So far this year, Amanda Gorman has read her poetry aloud before two of the biggest audiences in the country: the presidential inauguration and the Super Bowl.
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