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Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is an American poet, essayist, and playwright. Her book Citizen: An American Lyric won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Cornel West makes the point that hope is different from American optimism. After the initial presidential election results come in, I stop watching the news.
Claudia Rankine
Poetry
Claudia Rankine

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