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Claudia rankine books6/1/2023 Rankine said the idea for "Citizen" came after living in Houston during Hurricane Katrina. It's also the only poetry book to be a New York Times nonfiction bestseller. In addition to being selected for the Big Read, "Citizen" won several honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the PEN Open Book Award and the NAACP Image Award. "Citizen" - the focus of a monthlong series of local Big Read events - is a hybrid of poetry, prose and images that explores the everyday acts of microaggressions and racism. Rankine's appearance served as both part of the President's Lecture Series and as the launch to the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Big Read Hampton Roads. This is the gift of books like 'Citizen.' This is why visionary minds like Claudia Rankine's are so essential to the transformation of human society." For us to make a nation, a world worthy of our children we must begin this demanding work with daring and courage. Most especially, the ways in which we interact across the many lines of difference that are typical of this society. "In 'Citizen,' we often find the unseen, or often unclearly seen motions of racism uncovered, or held up to the light," Seibles told a full house. In his introduction of Claudia Rankine, New York Times best-selling author of "Citizen: An American Lyric" on Thursday night in the Big Blue Room at the Ted Constant Center, English Professor Tim Seibles praised her work as "an invitation to reimagine who we are as individuals and to reconsider our notions of citizenship."
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