The Hill We Climb

Exploring a variety of issues such as racism, climate change, and living through the early days of the pandemic, this book of poetry is a difficult but beautiful read. Gorman captures the mounting frustration that came with something that should be uniting us ultimately dividing us further, as well as the power of hope and perseverance and words. I was going to quote all of my favorite lines, but that would be approximately 80% of the book, so here's a random one:

It's said that ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is this: a vine that
sneaks up a tree, killing not by
poison, but by blocking out its
light.