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Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine - £9.99  Penguin Books Ltd (2015)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780141981772 | ISBN 10: 0141981776

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY
 
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
 
'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then I just knew.
 
'And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.'
 
In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence - whether linguistic or physical - which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan and others.
 
Awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in America after becoming the first book in the prize's history to be a finalist in both the poetry and criticism categories, Citizen weaves essays, images and poetry together to form a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in an ostensibly 'post-race' society.

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