An american lyric7/4/2023 I felt an anger that pushed me to learn more about how we got here where we can go. And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.” My political and social consciousness was still a work in progress the first time I read Citizen, as was the case for many Americans at the time, but I remember feeling moved by the way Rankine wrote and saw the world. A poet whose name I can’t remember came to visit my English class, and he read from page 105, “Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. The very first time I heard Claudia Rankine’s words was in my final year of high school, when Citizen: An American Lyric was first published and the Black Lives Matter movement was surging.
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