Claudia Rankine
Praise for Triage
Stunning... an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through
Saidiya Hartman
A sharp, forensic inquiry into camaraderie and the way it frays under the pressures of contemporary life
Roger Robinson, author of A Portable Paradise
At the center of Triage is a ritual of collapse and tentative recovery, of giving way and getting back up. In Claudia Rankine’s writing, we feel traditional genres buckle under the catastrophes of the present ...
Ben Lerner
Stunning... an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through
Saidiya Hartman
A sharp, forensic inquiry into camaraderie and the way it frays under the pressures of contemporary life
Roger Robinson, author of A Portable Paradise
At the center of Triage is a ritual of collapse and tentative recovery, of giving way and getting back up. In Claudia Rankine’s writing, we feel traditional genres buckle under the catastrophes of the present ...
Ben Lerner
Stunning... an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through
Saidiya Hartman
A sharp, forensic inquiry into camaraderie and the way it frays under the pressures of contemporary life
Roger Robinson, author of A Portable Paradise
At the center of Triage is a ritual of collapse and tentative recovery, of giving way and getting back up. In Claudia Rankine’s writing, we feel traditional genres buckle under the catastrophes of the present ...
Ben Lerner
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