"Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture."
— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
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Place of Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Date
2014
Metaphor
"Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture."
Metaphor in Context
Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture. A pulse in the neck, the shiftiness of hands, an unconscious blink, the conversations you have with your eyes translate everything and nothing. What will be needed, what goes unfelt, unsaid--what has been duplicated, redacted here, redacted there, altered to hide and disguise--words encoding the bodies they cover. And despite everything the body remains.
(p. 69)
(p. 69)
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Citation
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014).
Date of Entry
10/28/2015
