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Citizen: An American Lyric
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry · 2014 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry | 2014 | Winner |
About This Book
Claudia Rankine's genre-defying work blends poetry, essay, and image to document racial microaggressions in contemporary America. Nominated for the National Book Award in both poetry and criticism categories, it won the NBCC Award for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award.
About the Author
Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican-American poet, essayist, and playwright whose work interrogates race, citizenship, and American identity in forms that blur the boundaries between poetry, essay, and visual art. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she immigrated to the United States as a child and grew up in New York City. Her fifth collection, Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), is widely regarded as one of the most important American poetry books of the twenty-first century. Read more →
