The Short Version: Blending prose and poetry, image and text, Claudia Rankine delves into the everyday experience of racism – microaggressions suffered by heroes and ordinary people both – and paints a chilling picture of America (and the world) today. The Review: I’ve taken to marking with post-its the poetry that I read. It’s easier to flip back through and find the pieces you really loved, you know? Citizen, for several reasons, was marked with those long skinny post-it tabs and […]

Categories: Memoir, Non-Fiction, Poetry • Tags: America, American Life, An American Lyric, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Citizen, Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine, Essays, Gender, Graywolf Press, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Politics, Race, Racism, Reviews, Rodney King, Trayvon Martin