LibGuides: Citizen: An American Lyric (VUSM 200): Additional Resources

Additional Library Resources

This is just a sampling of resources. Many more books containing poems and other writings by Claudia Rankine, as well as articles about her and her writing, can be found in the library's collection by searching her name in the main search box of the library catalog at https://www.viterbo.edu/library.

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by); The New The New York Times Magazine (Created by); Caitlin Roper (Editor); Ilena Silverman (Editor); Jake Silverstein (Editor)
Call Number: E 441 .H36 S59 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Contains: The white lion / poem by Claudia Rankine
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young (Editor)
Call Number: PS 591 .N4 Y68 2020
Publication Date: 2020
Contains from Citizen: An American Lyric / Claudia Rankine -- The Difficult Music ; The Lucky One ; Hesitation Theory ; My Mother Was No White Dove.
American Poets in the 21st Century by Claudia Rankine (Editor); Michael Dowdy (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2018
American Women Poets in the 21st Century by Claudia Rankine (Editor); Juliana Spahr (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2013

The Art of Poetry No. 102 - Claudia Rankine (Interview)
Paris Review, December 1, 2016, p. 139-166
Black Lives/White Backgrounds: Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric and Critical Race Theory
Article in Comparative American Studies, March 1, 2017, p. 54-71.
Claudia Rankine: Writing for the Resistance
Article in Nation, January 29, 2018, p. 28.

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Call Number: PS 3568 .R366 D66 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century by Claudia Rankine (Editor); Lisa Sewell (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2012

"I Can't Breathe": Affective Asphyxia in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
South: A Scholarly Journal, September 1, 2017, p. 37-45.
The Journey of Self-Defence through Sound in Claudia Rankine's Citizen
Article in Canadian Review of American Studies, June 1, 2021, p. 108-118.

Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America by Derrilyn E. Morrison
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2015
Includes examinations of Claudia Rankine's Plot (2001) and Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004).
The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century by Christopher Nealon
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2011
The New Young American Poets: An Anthology by Kevin Prufer
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2000
Contains a poem by Claudia Rankine.
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them by Stephanie Burt
Call Number: PS 325 .B87 P64 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives by Leigh Gilmore
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2017
Contains: Conclusion: testimonial publics-#BlackLivesMatter and Claudia Rankine's Citizen.

Toward an Antiracist Ecopoetics: Waste and Wasting in the Poetry of Claudia Rankine
Contemporary Literature, March 1, 2016, p. 79-110.

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