Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

Citizen: An American Lyric

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Graywolf Press

2014

"To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds."

You like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended. Forget all that, the world says. The world's had a lot of practice. No one should adhere to the facts that contribute to narrative, the facts that create lives. To your mind, feelings are what create a person, something unwilling, something wild vandalizing whatever the skull holds. Those sensations form a someone. The headaches begin then. Don't wear sunglasses in the house, the world says, though they soothe, soothe sight, soothe you.
(p. 61)

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Reading

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014).

10/28/2015