Plot, an early work exploring pregnancy and childbirth, is published for the first time in the UK this month by Penguin. This fearless poet extends American poetry in invigorating new directions.’ Poet Mark Doty has written of her: ‘Claudia Rankine’s formally inventive poems investigate many kinds of boundaries: the unsettled territory between poetry and prose, between the word and the visual image, between what it’s like to be a subject and the ways we’re defined from outside by skin colour, economics and global corporate culture. Her tendency to mix genres led her 2014 book Citizen to be nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in both poetry and criticism categories. Our Author of the Month for March is the Jamaican-born American poet and essayist Claudia Rankine.
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