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.
I read this right after Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and both are important reads in my opinion. Both are a bit difficult to read at times, but they both speak their truths in punch you in the gut prose, which I appreciated. A must read because we have so much more to do.
This was a reader/book mismatch, and I try to avoid criticizing books simply for not being my thing. But I do want to provide the information that would have been helpful to me in deciding whether to read it.So, I’d heard that this is a brilliant new book about race in America, and only afterwards t...
This is awesome. Eye-opening. Multi-media engaged poetry. Pictures hammer home the injustice Rankine has to face every day, as a woman, as a black woman, as someone people don't expect her to be. She spends a lot of time on Serena Williams, tennis star, and I appreciate the way she inhabits the ange...
For my poetry class. A beautiful set of poems. I think there are a few parts that would be disturbing for some, so tread carefully if you object to violence.
I was unaware of the Freddie Gray murder until some of my relatives started posting things on Facebook about their friends back in Baltimore staying safe (this branch of the family belatedly moved somewhat west after my branch did to the West Coast decades previously) . I was confused, did some ligh...
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