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It seems irrelevant to rate this book of prose/poetry. It's not really something I can like or dislike in the usual sense. It was a very relevant but deeply painful read. Claudia Rankine picks relentlessly at a scab, revealing the accumulative nature of the wound that racial prejudice has created in this country. As I said, relevant, painful, complex, at times beautiful.
The format of the book is interesting and engaging, the writing is interspersed with visual art.
Read with a glass of bourbon ...more
The format of the book is interesting and engaging, the writing is interspersed with visual art.
Read with a glass of bourbon ...more
I will re-read this book. It’s brilliant, and arresting, and should be required reading, if I believed in required reading. It’s a lyric in that her poems are lyric poems, and she has a lyric essay as well. But it’s a disjointed lyric, with fragmentations and disruptions brilliantly deployed. There is also art embedded in the pieces.
Is is a beautiful book. But be prepared for non-linear thinking and connections. It doesn’t read how most people assume poems should be read. It disrupts and forces ...more
Is is a beautiful book. But be prepared for non-linear thinking and connections. It doesn’t read how most people assume poems should be read. It disrupts and forces ...more
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