![]() ![]() ![]() In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence - whether linguistic or physical - which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan and others.Ĭitizen weaves essays, images and poetry together to form a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in an ostensibly 'post-race' society. Claudia Rankines bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. 'And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.' ![]() 'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015 Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015 Claudia Rankine has once again written a book that feels both timely and timeless, and an essential part of the conversations all Americans are having (or should be having) right now.Refinery29 There is a persistence in Rankine to agitate the evasiveness, or complacency, that has metastasized in the minds of her acquaintances. WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015 ![]()
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