Citizen: An American Lyric
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141981772 (0141981776)
ASIN: 0141981776
Publish date: 2015-07-02
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
This has been on my to read wish list for a while. I was doing a volunteer shift at the library, shelf reading from the 800s to the end. I found this shoved in, almost hidden by other volumes. I rescued it and took it home. A slim volume of poetry that says a lot, sometimes saying it in too esote...
I'm cognizant of the fact that I don't read enough books by women of color and that I read very few works of poetry. I decided to kill two birds with one stone by reading Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric. (Also, it's National Poetry Month so it was a no-brainer.) This book is especially ...
This was affecting, and has really powerful moments. I love the way the words interacted with the art chosen to be reproduced. I also felt like so much of this was meant to be heard and not read, that so many pieces were written as part of larger works, that it felt like a gallery guide to a larger ...
This was affecting, and has really powerful moments. I love the way the words interacted with the art chosen to be reproduced. I also felt like so much of this was meant to be heard and not read, that so many pieces were written as part of larger works, that it felt like a gallery guide to a larger ...
powerful. like Ta-Nehisi Coates, it addresses issues but Rankine does it in a much more visceral way (thanks poetry). It did not read like regular poetry, but some prose hybrid. "An American Lyric" is a really fine way of describing it.
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