![]() Critics viewed her as a powerful voice for the fight for social justice and political progress. Gorman’s performance at Joe Biden’s inauguration wearing a striking yellow coat turned her into a celebrity. ![]() ![]() Gorman graduated from Harvard in 2020 with a degree in sociology. She published her first book of poetry, The One for Whom Food is Not Enough, in 2015, shortly after becoming the city’s first youth poet laureate. When she was 15 years old and already a noted youth poet, Gorman became involved with social justice activist work in Los Angeles while writing poetry and also working on a novel. Gorman began reading and writing at an early age, partly due to her attempts to overcome a speech impediment. On its publication, critics and popular figures lauded the poem as a tour de force of political rhetoric and spoken word poetry.Īmanda Gorman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, in 1998. The poem looks to the future and rejects the narrative that division defines America. The poem draws on American tropes and imagery to describe a country that is wounded, but not completely broken. Coming on the heels of the divisive 2020 United States election and the insurrection attempt of January 6, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, the poem echoes President Biden’s message of unity and hope. ![]() “The Hill We Climb” is a poem of unification. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |