But where Lonely was jangly and capacious, an effort to pin down the mood of a particular moment-the paranoia of post-9/11 America and the racial targeting of black and brown men in those years- Citizen’s project is more oblique, more mysterious.įor the book is, first of all, a surprisingly seductive object.
It’s a sequel of sorts to Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004), sharing its subtitle ( An American Lyric) and ambidextrous approach: Both books combine poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, words and images. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen is an anatomy of American racism in the new millennium, a slender, musical book that arrives with the force of a thunderclap.
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