Citizen

Brief notes: anaulin.org/blog/book-notes-citizen/

This was not what I expected! I’m not much for poetry, but I’ve been trying to challenge myself by including it in what I read in the morning.

This has a lot of what I guess I’d call prose poems and some mixed media. I found it way more accessible than some of the other poetry I’ve read because of that.

There’s still plenty that I was not understanding, but that’s fine. It’s one that I think I might get my own copy of (rather than the library’s) and reread, markup.

There isn't very much I can say as far as a review of this slim, poetic, and devastating book. This is required reading for all Americans and perhaps some proof, not only that Claudia Rankine is a National Treasure, but that we are entering a period of cultural awakening that might actually hold.

Pins you down with moments of shocked silence at routine barely remarked violence. Strongest in her concrete second-person observations on invisibility and revealed inequity.