In-person tickets are sold out, but you can join the livestream from anywhere in the world. Her work has appeared recently in the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post. Rankine will be at the shop to discuss the book, and her work more widely, with Nicola Rollock, on Tuesday 14 March. grimly inventive meditation on maternity. She currently is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Pomona. This poetry collection by the acclaimed author of Citizen presents an inexhaustibly complex, varied, and. Plot, an early work exploring pregnancy and childbirth, is published for the first time in the UK this month by Penguin. Claudia Rankine is the author of four previous books, including Dont Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. This fearless poet extends American poetry in invigorating new directions.’ Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright her numerous works include the ground-breaking American Lyric trilogy, Dont Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Poet Mark Doty has written of her: ‘Claudia Rankine’s formally inventive poems investigate many kinds of boundaries: the unsettled territory between poetry and prose, between the word and the visual image, between what it’s like to be a subject and the ways we’re defined from outside by skin colour, economics and global corporate culture. Her tendency to mix genres led her 2014 book Citizen to be nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in both poetry and criticism categories. Our Author of the Month for March is the Jamaican-born American poet and essayist Claudia Rankine.
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