Her next publication, Just Us: An American Conversation, is a collection of essays forthcoming with Graywolf Press in 2020. Indeed, here is illuminating testimony that is both poetic and well beyond the abstract. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life; which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE; A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering; and three limited edition chapbooks. . Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2020. . Please try again. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. I did not buy this book, I borrowed it at the library. . Her nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Harper’s, n+1, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. With Just Us: An American Conversation, American poet and essayist Claudia Rankine solidifies her position as one of our time’s most incisive, brilliant and necessary intellectuals. Anyone who turns away from this bold and vital invitation to get to work would be a damn fool.”–Judith Butler, “In my work, well-meaning white people consistently ask me how to recognize racism. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. . Rankine writes with disarming intimacy and searing honesty. [Just Us] lets all of us in on the conversations―with others and the self―that are necessary for survival, which, attested by this all-too-human account, is rooted in the vigilance that racially imagined people must maintain for their very being.”―Nuar Alsadir“In Just Us, Claudia Rankine continues her remarkable and brilliant interrogation of the language, culture, and history that have shaped America, forging through poems, essays, and documents a literary archive that is utterly original and desperately needed.”―Dinaw Mengestu. Sometimes wry, often vulnerable, and always prescient, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together. There's a problem loading this menu right now. .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration. . Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). “In this genre-defying work, [Claudia Rankine], as she did so effectively in Citizen, combines poetry, essay, visuals, scholarship, analysis, invective, and argument into a passionate and persuasive case about many of the complex mechanics of race in this country. The book made me feel the hardness of it in a new way. is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Something went wrong. It should be read in text form since the book itself is lush, beautifully presented which makes its content all that the more wrenching. Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own, Chained to the Sky: Discharging Debt through use of Postal Money Orders. . Rankine writes with disarming intimacy and searing honesty. . Yet we might ask, ‘How have we managed not to know?’ The information is everywhere, if we care to listen. Her previous groundbreaking book, Citizen: An American Lyric, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Claudia Rankine Just Us: An American Conversation Join acclaimed author, playwright, poet and multimedia artist Claudia Rankine on Nov. 4 for a reading and lecture based on her new book, Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf Press, 2020). is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including The White Card, which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson/ American Repertory Theater) was published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; as well as numerous video collaborations. Does this book contain inappropriate content? In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Also, when you are the phrase "A picture is worth a 1000 words," it helps me convey how impactful the selected images are and how their placement in the book form their own stories. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. With clarity and grace, Claudia Rankine delivers a gut punch to white denial. Claudia Rankine incorporates poetry, illustrations, and multitudes of backup footnotes in this "Conversation" primarily about racial divide and white privilege. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. . Join a community of Los Angeles Public Library supporters. .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Explore your book, then jump right back to where you left off with Page Flip. With clarity and grace, Claudia Rankine delivers a gut punch to white denial. . Written with humility and humor, criticism and compassion, Just Us asks difficult questions and begins necessary conversations.”―Viet Thanh Nguyen“Fiercely intimate, rigorous. Yet we might ask, ‘How have we managed not to know?’ The information is everywhere, if we care to listen. As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Her willingness to force other people out of normalcy with frankness, and her inclination toward untethering herself from her economic status and cultural capital through traumatic dialogues, seems unparalleled. Martin is a Professor of English in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. . Just Us: An American Conversation - Kindle edition by Rankine, Claudia. Rankine once again opens a literary window into the Black experience, for those willing to look in.”―Booklist, starred review “Rankine seeks to find a space beyond white defensiveness and guilt where meaningful discussions can take place. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}Ask Alexa to read your book with Audible integration or text-to-speech. She is also the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Just Us is stunning work–audacious, revelatory, devastating.”–Robin DiAngelo, “With Just Us, Claudia Rankine offers further proof that she is one of our essential thinkers about race, difference, politics, and the United States of America. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. . This book further solidifies Rankine's reputation as one of the most important writers of our time, and "Just Us" falls into the top of my list of one of the best books of the year. Comfort, when so much in our vantage is in shambles, seems a luxury that should collectively be left on the shelf until civilization has worked hard enough to afford it.
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