In her book-length poem, Claudia Rankine delivers an incisive and personal account of race relations in modern-day America.

In 2014, Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two young Black men, were killed by police.

Although both Brown and Garner were unarmed and non-violent, none of the policemen involved in their killings received any jail time.

Amid this civic outrage, Claudia Rankine began her book-length poem Citizen, a portrait of the Black experience in contemporary America.

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist, and playwright who teaches at Yale University.

In Citizen, Rankine takes a multimedia approach, including verse, prose, quotes, interviews, and visual art.

A New York Times bestseller and a winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry and National Book Critics Circle Award, Citizen stands as an important contributor to American poetry.