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The Book Gods have apparently chosen this week to send me a variety of books that take on the stories of marginalized people, and Citizen is one of the best. It's a book of flash nonfiction mixed with poetry mixed with visual art, and it all combines to share the experiences of black people in today's America. It's difficult to read, at times, painful, sharp, harsh-but-deservedly-so. It's a book that should be read.
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“Yes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the unintimidated, unblinking, and unflappable resilience does not erase the moments lived through, even as we are eternally stupid or everlastingly optimistic, so ready to be inside, among, a part of the games.”
An elegant and lyrical book of poetry focusing on the Black experience in America. Highlighting both her experie ...more
An elegant and lyrical book of poetry focusing on the Black experience in America. Highlighting both her experie ...more
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