I have to read this for a class, is it any good?

Read it and find out, you tool.

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>the poet Claudia Rankine’s new volume, her fifth, is “Citizen: An American Lyric” (Graywolf), a book-length poem about race and the imagination. Rankine has called it an attempt to “pull the lyric back into its realities.” Those realities include the acts of everyday racism—remarks, glances, implied judgments—that flourish in an environment where more explicit acts of discrimination have been outlawed.

I would sparknotes this one OP.

>>9368528
do you like modern poetry? I think its a great book, I really liked it but I like contemporary poetry.

I had to read it and it's not particularly good. It's a quick and low-effort read, though, so you can come to your own conclusions. It's mostly about microaggressions and the struggles of being black in America

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>>9371031

>microaggressions

Like being bitten by a small ant?

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>>9368528
>American
>written by a woman

No

It has some good moments. I like essayish stuff like Charles Lamb, which I think helps, since most of it is essays. But like >>9371031 said, just take the hour or so to read it, OP.

>>9371045
LAL PAL

>>9371045
as opposed to being bitten by a giant ant?

>>9371285
Well, a giant ant would slice you in half. So, yeah, probably as opposed to being bitten by a giant ant.

>>9371304
a thing like that could tear a man to shreds

>>9371285
Not funny, dude, my brother died that way (RIP homie).

>>9371031
The word microaggression gives me a mental image of Bruce Lee's one inch punch.

>>9371314

How much you think it weighs? 200 pounds? Jeeeezus. Cant ants lift over a thousand times their own weight? Jamie, pull that up. Yeah. Oh yeah. That ant could throw a 65 foot yacht right at you. Jesus.