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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	:	First 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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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)

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Race is something we Americans still have not gotten right. Rankines small book of essays tells us the myriad ways we consistently misinterpret others motives, actions, language. She writes in second person: "you." It is agonizing to display our flayed skin to the salt of another day. You take to wearing sunglasses inside.I call these essays while Holly Bass in the NYTimes calls them poems. They are fragments, scripts or screenplays for video or film, shards of thought, sharp and able to pierce

A nuanced reflection on race, trauma, and belonging that brings together text and image in unsettling, powerful ways. Its rare to come across art, least of all poetry, that so obviously will endure the passing of time and be considered over and over, by many.

**Update (4/6/16)** Tonight I had the privilege to attend a reading and discussion with Claudia Rankine here in Holland. It was a real treat. Especially powerful was seeing the visual elements of her book brought to life on the screen, with the video (made by her husband John Lucas), the music all mingling with her words to create an intensely powerful and emotive display. Rankine is a pure joy to hear read and speak, full of wit and humor and a reminder to us all that we all have the

Find this and other Reviews at In Tori LexThis book is a beautiful reflection at how racist microaggressions that most minority's face mentally chip away at the people who experience them. It's documents the weight of excusing racists slights and ignoring views in attempts to just exist as human.The book navigates between short poems and powerful vignettes. One of the most memorable being the disconcerting feeling and shame that happens when your friend says something to you that is racist, and

I repeat what Bill Kerwin reminded me of in his review of this book: At a Trump rally, there is a woman sitting behind him reading a book while he speaks. Citizen: An American Lyric is the book she was reading. Trump is of course unapologetically and infamously racist against various races (and religions, women, and so on), so the woman behind Trump uses the opportunity to read this anti-racist book, knowing it will get national coverage; we see the title, we check it out: Powerful political

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

I feel like Citizen is one of those books everyones read in some portion. By my middling review, I definitely dont mean to take away anything from Claudia Rankines workI know it made many people more cognizant about the racial issues in this country, and thats always a great thingbut four years later, it felt a bit off-base for me. This is another book for my Beyonce/Solange/Jay-Z class, which has now moved on to the latter artists. Were reading this for our A Seat at the Table unit, which adds