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Contributor(s): Rankine, Claudia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0802116345     ISBN-13: 9780802116345
Publisher: Grove Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1998
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Annotation: Born in Jamaica and now making her home in the United States, Claudia Rankine writes poems that draw breath from alienation -- from her home, her body, her mind. Hailed by Robert Hass as "a fiercely gifted young poet", Claudia Rankine has welded the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. With a fierce intelligence and daunting honesty, Rankine writes about her vulnerability by looking at those closest to her: "Imagine his unshaven face, his untrimmed nails as all/the hurt this world could give". Whether writing about the man she fell in love with, or the country she's come to that is not her home, what remains long after, in searing echo, is her voice -- its beguiling cadence and vivid physicality.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 98024717
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.69" W x 8.57" L (0.54 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/28/1998 pg. 97
Library Journal 12/01/1998 pg. 113
 
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These poems -- intrepid, obsessive, and erotic -- tell the story of a woman's attempt to overcome despair. Claudia Rankine, whose first collection was the prize-winning Nothing in Nature is Private, creates a transfixing testimonial to a woman facing her own disease. Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque, courting paradox into the center of her voice.
 
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