She is well-known for her use of experimental form and her stark, direct voice. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, an earlier work that bears the same subtitle as Citizen, speaks of the individual bombarded by images from a disenchanting media. Citizen begins with personal experiences of encounters where Rankine felt invisible or was hypervisible and moves into passages in memoriam of black men who have been killed. It also includes scripts of multimedia video’s created in collaboration with Rankine’s partner, photographer John Lucas. Rankine is able to embed the profound in the routine, to untangle everyday experiences and speak to larger truths. Her ability to connect the institutional to the individual experience, to zoom in and out between the macro and micro is her calling card. theguardian/books/2014/dec/27/claudia-rankine-poetry-racism-america-perception?CMP=share_btn_fb
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