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Claudia Rankine is the author of five books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely- An American Lyric and the bestselling Citizen- An American Lyric. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. She is an adjunct professor of English and African-American Studies at Yale University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Southern California.%%%Claudia Rankine is the author of five books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely- An American Lyric and the bestselling Citizen- An American Lyric. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. She teaches at Pomona College in Claremont, California.%%%Claudia Rankine is the author of five books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely- An American Lyric and the bestselling Citizen- An American Lyric. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. An adjunct professor of English and African-American Studies at Yale University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Southern California.
Wonderfully capacious and innovative. In her riffs on the demotic, in her layering of incident, Rankine finds a new way of writing about race in America -- Nick Laird * New York Review of Books * Citizen feels raw ... this documentary-style look at America has catapulted Rankine into the spotlight ... She speaks to the vastly different ways racism and injustice are perpetuated across class lines in America today -- Smitha Khorana * Guardian * Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry's forms ... one is left with a mix of emotions that linger and wend themselves into the subconscious -- Holly Bass * The New York Times * What does it mean to be a black citizen in the US of the early twenty-first century? Claudia Rankine's brilliant, terse and parabolic prose poems have a shock value rarely found in poetry. These tales of everyday life - whether the narrator's or the lives of young black men like Trayvon Martin and James Craig Anderson - dwell on the most normal exteriors and the most ordinary of daily situations so as to expose what is really there: a racism so guarded and carefully masked as to make it all the more insidious ... Citizen is an unforgettable book -- Marjorie Perloff An especially vital book for this moment in time ... The realization at the end of this book sits heavily upon the heart: ""This is how you are a citizen,"" Rankine writes. ""Come on. Let it go. Move on."" As Rankine's brilliant, disabusing work, always aware of its ironies, reminds us, ""moving on"" is not synonymous with ""leaving behind"" -- Dan Chiasson * New Yorker *
