![]() ![]() It also includes scripts of multimedia video’s created in collaboration with Rankine’s partner, photographer John Lucas. Citizen begins with personal experiences of encounters where Rankine felt invisible or was hypervisible and moves into passages in memoriam of black men who have been killed. ![]() Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, an earlier work that bears the same subtitle as Citizen, speaks of the individual bombarded by images from a disenchanting media. She is well-known for her use of experimental form and her stark, direct voice. Rankine is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and professor of English at Pomona College and that two-decade long feeling of urgency she mentioned has seen her produce poetry that’s been short-listed for the National Book Award, and taken in subjects as unlikely as Zinedine Zidane’s infamous head-butt in the 2006 World Cup final and the portrayal of Serena Williams by the mainstream media. “There’s something very moving about having so many people step into a subject that I have been consumed with for so long, and suddenly understand the urgency that I have been feeling for 20 years,” she said. Now her work, which had started as a re-telling of personal experiences of racism, as well as a general view of the country and race, had inadvertently become a companion to one of the most volatile moments in recent US history. ![]()
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