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Sep 3, 2020 · Claudia Rankine's award-winning poetry collection Citizen came out in 2014 — the year of the protests in Ferguson, Mo., over the death of Michael Brown.. Her latest book arrives as the same ...
Citizen. : “You are in the dark, in the car...”. By Claudia Rankine. /. You are in the dark, in the car, watching the black-tarred street being swallowed by speed; he tells you his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there. You think maybe this is an experiment and you are being tested or ...
Nov 28, 2014 · Claudia Rankine mixes verse, prose and visual images in “Citizen,” a National Book Award poetry finalist. ... Ms. Rankine said she was hearing from black readers who feel comforted that she ...
Jan 3, 2015 · African-American poet Claudia Rankine's latest collection, Citizen: An American Lyric, has an answer. It's a very personal meditation on race in America with a cover that recalls Trayvon Martin ...
Claudia Rankine: Well that was the difficulty writing this piece the point of view issues were incredible because I am a black person, Melanie is a white person, the population in the South Bronx, majority Dominican, Puerto Rican, and so you don't want to speak for anyone, and you don't want to be put in a place where you're misrepresenting ...
Oct 7, 2014 · Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Her work has appeared recently in the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the ...
