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Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
5.0
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background - Zora Neale Hurston.
Everything Rankine acknowledges in this masterpiece will evoke unwanted emotions; feelings of rage, fed-upness, and sadness will surface.
Her prose and poetry are well executed, though, at times, I found myself having to reread the poetry to grasp the concept of the experience. The prose was striking, the images alongside her writing were poetic, and the poetry was profound.
The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really just say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?
A necessary read!
*4.5
Everything Rankine acknowledges in this masterpiece will evoke unwanted emotions; feelings of rage, fed-upness, and sadness will surface.
Her prose and poetry are well executed, though, at times, I found myself having to reread the poetry to grasp the concept of the experience. The prose was striking, the images alongside her writing were poetic, and the poetry was profound.
The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really just say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?
A necessary read!
*4.5