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Original Title:	Citizen: An American Lyric
ISBN:	1555976905 (ISBN13: 9781555976903)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Poetry (2016), T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2015), Sister Mariella Gable Prize (2014), Forward Prize for Best Collection (2015), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2014) PEN Open Book Award (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2014), National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2014), PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry (2015)

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

Paperback | Pages: 169 pages

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Title	:	Citizen: An American Lyric
Author	:	Claudia Rankine
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 169 pages
Published	:	October 7th 2014 by Graywolf Press
Categories	:	Poetry. Nonfiction. Race. Writing. Essays. Cultural. African American. Politics

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A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.

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Clearly - from the blurb and the plaudits - this is an 'important work' - and my failure to 'get it' is a failure to police my mind (or something). Ominously, it got rave reviews from Hilton Als - whose recent memoir gave me similar migraines. I did find moments of lucidity (on Serena Williams; on everyday racism; on Zidane). But for the most part, I found this terribly self-indulgent, formless adolescent gloop that felt like listening to a cultural studies student breathlessly talking about

Rivetingly worth it for the Serena Williams section and the slices of life in the first half that so effectively/efficiently dramatize overt and less obvious instances of racism. I didn't engage to the same degree with the deeper-POV parts (prose poems) or the situation video texts toward the end I suppose because the indirect, abstracted approaches didn't shake me as much (charge me, more so; make me feel more alert, as though reading a thriller) and maybe felt more like they were being used,

Do you remember that incident early in the primary campaign in 2016 when a young black woman staged a silent protest by reading a book during a Trump rally? Well, this is the book, and I think you should read it too. It covers some of the same ground as Coates' Between the World and Me, but Rankine is older and perhaps wiser. And Rankine got there first.Her book is a well-constructed bricolage of anecdote, poetry, criticism, and multi-media presentation, expertly designed by Rankine's

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers. James Baldwin In Citizen: An American Lyric Rankines prose reads more like a political essay than lyrical poetry. However, her accounts expose prejudice both large and small. She deals head on with atrocities that have been deemed fit for American headlines The Jena 6, Trayvon Martin, Hurricane Katrina, Have you seen their faces?we are drowning herestill in the difficultyas if the faces in the images hold all the

I went to pick this up from the library and had some extra time so I started to read it. Before I knew it I had read over half of the book. It is just that good. Leaving the library I ordered a coffee at Starbucks and finished it. Now I am heading home where I will reread and really savor it. Beautiful writing which struck many cords in my memory. Who should read it? Everyone who has an interest in racial and human conditions.

Do you remember that incident early in the primary campaign in 2016 when a young black woman staged a silent protest by reading a book during a Trump rally? Well, this is the book, and I think you should read it too. It covers some of the same ground as Coates' Between the World and Me, but Rankine is older and perhaps wiser. And Rankine got there first.Her book is a well-constructed bricolage of anecdote, poetry, criticism, and multi-media presentation, expertly designed by Rankine's