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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine · 2014

A hybrid text of poetry, prose poem, and visual art documenting the experience of anti-Black racism in contemporary America, from microaggressions in casual conversation to the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner to Serena Williams's treatment by tennis officials. Won every major American poetry prize available to it. The most politically urgent American poetry collection of the 21st century, and formally one of the most inventive.

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