Claudia Rankine
Auteur de Citizen: An American Lyric
A propos de l'auteur
Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She received a B.A. in English from Williams College and a M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of several collections of poetry including Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Plot, and The End of the Alphabet. Nothing in Nature is Private won afficher plus the Cleveland State Poetry Prize and Citizen: An American Lyric won the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has edited numerous anthologies including American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century: Where Lyric Meets Language and American Poets in the Twenty-First Century: The New Poetics. She is currently the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College. She won a 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry which carried a monetary award of $21,570. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Claudia Rankine
The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (2015) — Directeur de publication — 53 exemplaires
American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (2007) — Directeur de publication — 37 exemplaires
American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (2002) — Directeur de publication — 36 exemplaires
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (2012) — Directeur de publication — 11 exemplaires
American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (2018) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
Rankine, Claudia Archive 1 exemplaire
Sound & Fury/ Blunt Object 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent (1992) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1963
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Jamaica
USA - Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Kingston, Jamaica
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Williams College
Columbia University - Professions
- poet
playwright - Prix et distinctions
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (2005)
- Agent
- Frances Coady
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Critiques
I just think I'm too stupid to understand poetic language. This is a short book so I kept reading every line I didn't immediately get multiple times. I thought hard about it, tried to get what was being communicated. And I just constantly didn't get it. So yeah 2 stars is just because I didn't get most of the book outside the basic declarative stuff about racism. It's me being stupid not a criticism of the book
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tombomp | 67 autres critiques | Oct 31, 2023 |
tombomp | 67 autres critiques | Oct 31, 2023 | La primera mitad me ha parecido brutal, la segunda se me ha quedado un poco más floja en comparación. Sin embargo, la visión que aporta de las situaciones cotidianas vistas desde una primera persona y que no solemos ser capaces de descifrar desde el privilegio blanco me han encogido el corazón y me han hecho ser mucho más consciente de todo. Totalmente recomendado, y más aún con lo que está pasando en el mundo ahora.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 3,132
- Popularité
- #8,150
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 91
- ISBN
- 60
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 4
If you have read Rankine before you probably know to expect her poems to be very explicitly in conversation with the racial discourse of the moment. I did not realize until picking this up to start reading that this collection was from 2004. And as the beginning was more personal, I forgot again until around halfway through I turn the page and thre is 9/11 and the War on Terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom and it was all so immediate it felt like stepping back in time.
Like all good poetry, this is about many things at once. At first I thought this collection was about death — partly pondering your own but mostly the strangeness of death that does not directly implicate you. Distant relatives, celebrities, victims of police brutality on the news. Three thousand people in the twin towers. Everyone in th misguided war that followed. But when I turned the last page of poetry and was shocked the collection was over, I realized what it was really about is the shape death gives to life, what life is for, and what we owe each other.
If you HAVEN'T read Rankine before, her poetry is a hybrid of essay and image, complete with extensive endnotes and context. The essay-like form makes it feel very accessible, I think, even if it doesn't look like what you might think poetry "should" look like. This is a lovely collection, but I think if you are new to Rankine I would recommend starting with Citizen.
Recommended to folks whose favorite non-fiction is found in the Social Sciences section.… (plus d'informations)