Citizen: An American Lyric History she packs her kids and

she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm

and the limits of compassion

Easy Rawlins

they were silent

’The body is not an apology’ is the mantra we should all embrace

Citizen: An American Lyric History she packs her kids andA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine's bold book recounts mounting racial aggression in ongoing encounters in twenty first century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court