- Imprint: Penguin
- ISBN: 9781837314164
- Length: 208 pages
- Price: £12.99
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Pulitzer-Prize winner for Feature Writing 2018A masterwork, faultless and taut, that stitches together a fractured, aching world with precise and subtle language that refuses to ever falter under the weight of the profundity of Claudia Rankine’s conclusions. Her genius takes on the deepest questions of our spirits
Saidiya HartmanStunning... an extended meditation on the collective devastation of the present. The beauty of Rankine’s dense, elliptical sentences guides us through
Kenya Hunt, Elle‘Pioneering, prescient, fiercely intelligent reflections on race, identity and power . . . A devastating meditation on the politics of now."
Roger Robinson, author of A Portable ParadiseA sharp, forensic inquiry into camaraderie and the way it frays under the pressures of contemporary life
Jamaica KincaidClaudia Rankine’s remarkable, outstanding odyssey—an account of our present, which is also our past, which is always our future—is beautifully rendered in a kaleidoscope of images and sensations. Triage is exquisite
Ben LernerIn Claudia Rankine’s writing, we feel traditional genres buckle under the catastrophes of the present—and then she shows us how new possibilities of form and feeling might emerge
Colin Grant, ObserverStartling, clear-eyed, undeniably cool . . . even with the heaviest subjects, she writes with beguiling ease
Homi K. BhabhaClaudia Rankine’s lines profoundly question the validity and viability of ‘these truths,’ whether spoken in faith or twisted out of shape. Rankine’s body poetic refuses the compromises and consolations of the body politic. Triage is her elegiac anti-memoir of ‘these times’
Max Liu, Financial TimesIt is exhilarating to surrender to the ingenuity and rhythm of Rankine’s writing...It doesn’t offer easy answers but poses important questions beautifully, mercilessly and with an urgency that will outlast our present predicament
Sarah Crown, GuardianA fantastical hybrid . . . both mirrors and engages with our present moment’s contradictions
About Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright; her numerous works include the ground-breaking American Lyric trilogy, Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), Citizen (2014) and Just Us (2020). A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, she is the recipient of many honours, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Forward Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of creative writing at New York University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and Yale University.
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