Surviving the Discomfort: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

CLAUDIA RANKINE’S Just Us: An American Conversation completes a vital trilogy that includes Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Rankine’s fluid artistry is complex and human. Twenty-one intimate, and collaborative, essays, in verso and recto format, swerve and fuse poetry, visuals, scholarship, analysis, invective, and argument into an […] The post Surviving the Discomfort: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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