"No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads."
— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
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Place of Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Date
2014
Metaphor
"No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads."
Metaphor in Context
No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads.
(p. 73)
(p. 73)
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Citation
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014).
Date of Entry
10/28/2015