Selected Secondary Bibliography

"Book Review: Citizen: An American Lyric." Narr. Tess Taylor All Things Considered. Natl.

Public Radio. 20 Nov. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015

Anderson, Erik. "A Prescription against Despair: On Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely."

Pilot Light. Pilot Light, Mar. 2012. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Bar-Nadav, Hadara. "Who Is Flying This Plane? The Prose Poem and the Life of the Line." A

Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Eds. Rosko, Emily and Anton Vander Zee. Iowa City:

U of Iowa P, 2011. 44. Print.

Bass, Holly. "How It Feels to Be Black in America." Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by

Claudia Rankine. New York Times Book Review 28 Dec. 2014: 9-BR.9. Print.

Bedient, Calvin. "Review: The End of the Alphabet." Boston Review. Boston Review, 1 Jun.

1999. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Bell, Kevin. "Unheard Writing in the Climate of Spectacular Noise: Claudia Rankine on TV."

The Global South 3.1 (2009): 93-107. Print.

Burt, Stephen. "Mother Tongues." Rev. of Plot by Claudia Rankine. The Village Voice 10 Apr.

2001: 122. Print.

Chiasson, Dan. "Color Codes: A Poet Examines Race in America." Rev. of Citizen: An American

Lyric by Claudia Rankine. 27 Oct 2014: 73. Print.

Clare, Aingeal. "Then We're Kin." Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. TLS,

The Times Literary Supplement 18 Sep 2015: 23. Print.

Domestico, Anthony. "Bookmarks." Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.

Commonweal 142.13 (2015): 34-37. Print. Farmer, Jonathan. "Blackness Visible." Slate Book Review. Slate, 9 Oct. 2014. Web. 18 Nov.

2015.

Fischer, B.K. "Chokehold: Claudia Rankine's Embodied Rhythms." Boston Review. Boston

Review, 9 Dec. 2014. Web. 18 Nov 2015.

Flescher, Jennifer, and Robert N. Casper. "Interview with Claudia Rankine." Jubilat 12 (2006):

14-28. Print.

Greenberg, Arielle. "What to Read Now." Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia

Rankine. American Poetry Review 44.1 (2015): 9-11. Print.

Hawkins, Jeremy Allan. "Direct Address—on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric."

The Hairsplitter. The Hairsplitter, 20 Nov. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Hsu, Hua. "This Game Is Rigged." Pacific Standard. Pacific Standard, 8 Dec. 2014. Web. 24

Nov. 2015.

Huber, Sam. "Feministing Reads: Claudia Rankine's Citizen." Feministing. Feministing, n.d.

Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Hunt, Erica. "All About You." Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books, 8

Dec. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Johnson, Michelle. Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. World Literature

Today 89.3/4 (2015): 45. Print.

Khorana, Smitha. "Poet Claudia Rankine: 'Racism Works Purely on Perception' in America." The

Guardian. , 27 Dec. 2014. Web. 18 Nov 2015.

Kimberley, Emma. "Politics and Poetics of Fear after 9/11: Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be

Lonely." Journal of American Studies 45.4 (2011): 777-91. Print.

Kiper, Dmitry. "Claudia Rankine." Current Biography 76.7 (2015): 67. Print. Klein, Hannah. "Citizen--Claudia Rankine." Full Stop. Full Stop, 18 Dec. 2014. Web. 24 Nov.

2015.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. "Strange and Admirable." Rev. of The End of the Alphabet by Claudia

Rankine. Parnassus: Poetry in Review 24.2 (2000): 297-311. Print.

Koneazny, Paula. "What Condition My Condition Was In." Rev. of Don't Let Me Be Lonely by

Claudia Rankine. American Book Review 27.1 (2005): 21-22. Print.

Laird, Nick. "'A New Way of Writing About Race'." Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by

Claudia Rankine. The New York Review of Books 23 Apr. 2015: 39. Print.

Lederer, Katy. "Claudia Rankine." The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft,

and Culture. Eds. Henry, Brian and Andrew Zawacki: Verse, 2005. 147-51. Print.

Lee, Felicia R. "A Poetry Personal and Political: Claudia Rankine on Citizen and Racial

Politics." New York Times 29 Nov. 2014, New York ed.: C1. Print.

Leszkiewicz, Anna. "Black Bodies in America." New Statesman 144.5282 (2015): 19. Print.

Leung, Muriel. "Feeling Is First: Lessons on Resistance in Claudia Rankine's Citizen." The

Blood-Jet Radio. Blood-Jet Radio, 16 Oct. 2014. Web.

---. "On Race and Art: Failures, Difficulties, and the Attempt." The Blood-Jet Radio. Blood-Jet

Radio, 21 Jan. 2014. Web. 24 Nov 2015.

Mayer, Sophie. "Claudia Rankine Reviewed by Sophie Mayer." The Shearsman Review.

Shearman Books, 17 May 2015. Web. 18 Nov 2015.

McArdle, Molly. Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Library Journal

139.18 (2014): 102-02. Print.

McCarthy, Jesse. "The Protest Poets." Dissent 62.4 (2015): 7-13. Print. McClure, J. G. Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Rain Taxi. Rain Taxi,

n.d. Web. 24 Nov 2015.

Morris, Mervyn. "The American Light: Two Jamaican Poets in the USA." Mississippi Review

(1996): 36-48. Print.

---. Is English We Speaking and Other Essays. Kingston, : Ian Randle, 1999. Print.

Newcomer, Caitlin E. "Casting a Shadow from Flesh to Canvas: Claudia Rankine's Plot and the

Gendered Textual Body." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 47.3 (2014): 357-77.

Print.

Norcia, Alexander. "Review: Claudia Rankine's Citizen." Slant. Slant, 18 Dec. 2014. Web. 24

Nov 2015.

Oakley, Seanna Sumalee. Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Vol. 63. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Print.

Rader, Dean. "The Poetry of Politics, the Politics of Poetry: On Claudia Rankine's Citizen." Huff

Post San Francisco. Huffington Post, 11 Dec. 2014. Web. 24 Nov 2014.

Rankine, Claudia, and Lisa Sewell. American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics.

Wesleyan UP, 2007. Print.

Rankine, Claudia. Interview by Berlant, Lauren. "Claudia Rankine." BOMB Magazine. Fall

2014: 44-49. Print.

---. Interview by Ratik Asokan. “I Am Invested in Keeping Present the Forgotten Bodies.”

Believer Logger, Believer Maazine, 10 Dec. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

---. Interview by Boris Kachka. "Claudia Rankine: Serena, Indian Wells, and Race." Vulture.

New York Media, 18 Mar. 2015.Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

---. Interview by Travis Smiley. "Poet Claudia Rankine." Travis Smiley. PBS. 8 Dec 2014. Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Kirkus Reviews 15 Aug. 2014: 143-43.

Print.

Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Publishers Weekly 18 Aug. 2014: 51-

52. Print.

Richard, Brad. "A Poetics of Disaster: Katrina in Poetry, Poetry after Katrina." New Orleans

Review 36 (2010): 162-81. Print.

Sadoff, Ira. "On the Margins: Part Two." The American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 2006: 51-55.

Print.

Scharf, Michael. Rev. of Plot by Claudia Rankine. Publishers Weekly 248.8 (2001): 87-88. Print.

Seaman, Donna. Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. The Booklist 111.4

(2014): 11. Print.

Sehgal, Parul. "Sister Outsider." Bookforum.com. Bookforum, 21.4 (2015): 33+. Web. 24 Nov

2015.

Smith, Michelle. "Claudia Rankine." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 3.1 (2002):

133-33. Print.

Smith, Shaelyn. "Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine." The Rumpus. The Rumpus,

27 Sept. 2014. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.

Spayde, Jon. Rev. of Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine. Utne Nov/Dec 2004: 35.

Print.

Spillman, Rob. "Yes, It's About Racism." Guernica. Guernica, 10 Nov. 2014. Web. 24 Nov.

2015.

Steagall, Jason L. Rev. of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Library Journal

140.16 (2015): 45-45. Print. Stuckey-French, Ned. "The Video Essay." Rev. of Zadine by Claudia Rankine. American Book

Review 33.2 (2012): 14-15. Print.

Theune, Michael. Rev. of The End of the Alphabet by Claudia Rankine. Verse 16.2 (1999): 194-

95. Print.

Welch, Tana Jean. "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s

Investigative Poetics." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 40.1 (2015):

124-48. Print.