...Caitlin E. Newcomer This essay examines Claudia Rankine's long poem Plot (2001) in light of its status as one of a number of postsixties poetic texts authored by women that explore complicated questions surrounding the relationships among maternity, the female body, and innovative poetics. Plot...

... of what's classed as “poetry.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 genre history novel lyric theory Ezra Pound Claudia Rankine It might sound familiar, the way Ezra Pound declined to debate the distinction between poetry and prose in “The Serious...

... on peaceable protest, climate catastrophe, the end of the postal service, a rigged election”—wait, what ?—“toilet paper and refrigerator shortages” (265) and all the rest, and your most urgent alternative is an extended gloss on A Room of One's Own and Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric...

... including original reflections from eight contemporary essayists. The included essayists form a formidable cohort: Robert Atwan, Brian Dillon, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Leslie Jamison, Jamaica Kincaid, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, and Rebecca Solnit. The sections themselves are interspersed between the book's...