Citizen: An American Lyric History ’The body is not an

’The body is not an apology’ is the mantra we should all embrace

and the limits of compassion

Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

highlighting the influence of news media on our actions in the present and our memories of the past

Citizen: An American Lyric History ’The body is not anA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine's bold book recounts mounting racial aggression in ongoing encounters in twenty first century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court