"Claudia Rankine’s book-length poem ‘Citizen’ was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here."
- Glenn LigonAmerican author Claudia Rankine is renowned for her moving examinations of race and identity. Her book-length poem "Citizen," which combines prose and poetry, has received a lot of attention and appreciation for its potent critique of Black people's lives in America. Readers are forced to face the f…