Citizen: An American Lyric

* Finalist for the Nationwide Ebook Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Picture Award * Winner of the L.A. Occasions Ebook Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Ebook Award *

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A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited observe as much as her groundbreaking e-book Do not Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine’s daring new e-book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century each day life and within the media. A few of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and a few are intentional offensives within the classroom, on the grocery store, at residence, on the tennis court docket with Serena Williams and the soccer discipline with Zinedine Zidane, on-line, on TV-everywhere, on a regular basis. The accumulative stresses come to bear on an individual’s means to talk, carry out, and keep alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, picture, and poetry, Citizen is a robust testomony to the person and collective results of racism in our modern, typically named “post-race” society.