and by the time claudia rankin was ready to publish those poems as a book, university of massachusetts poetry professor jill mcdonough, who s a good friend of mine, who i talked to about this, i asked her about what the impact was of that book and how big a deal claudia rankin s book, citizen, was in the poetry and the literary world. jill s characterization, to me, was that claudia rankin s new book, citizen, when it was due to come out, it was the most highly anticipated book of american poetry in years. and there is an easy way to check this, interestingly enough, but there s also a pretty good chance this was the best-selling book of new american poetry also in years. so in that world, it s a big deal. and so that book, this book, citizen by claudia rankin, it came out in october of last year and has this haunting image on the cover, a disembodied black hoodie, just the hood. and the book really is a sensation. it s a finalist for the national book award, bins the national book
she was doing something sort of experimental that was having a big effect. it was really smacking people hard. it was getting a lot of attention and ultimately, a lot of praise. and the subject of this new work that she had started publishing was race. it was, everyday experiences of racism in the united states. and by the time claudia rankin was ready to publish those poems as a book, university of massachusetts poetry professor jill mcdonough, who s a good friend of mine, who i talked to about this, i asked her about what the impact was of that book and how big a deal claudia rankin s book, citizen, was in the poetry and the literary world. jill s characterization, to me, was that claudia rankin s new book, citizen, when it was due to come out, it was the most highly anticipated book of american poetry in years. and there is an easy way to check this, interestingly enough, but there s also a pretty good chance this was the best-selling book of new american poetry also in years. so
i m a u.s. citizen, too. well, univision, no, it s not about you it s not about you. it s about the united states. so, okay, i said there are two things going on here. that s one thing that s going on. that is the front running republican presidential campaign this year. mr. trump has been more or less steadily leading in the polls with that kind of a campaign since around the fourth of july. so that s one thing going on. and now, here s a totally different thing that has also been going on. this is something that you never hear talked about on cable news, you ve never heard me talk about it before, but bear with me here, i promise it pays off. a couple of years ago, a fairly well-known professor of poetry, professor from pomona college, started publishing some sort of experimental new work in literary magazines. i don t know exactly how that world works, but from what i understand, it s not that unusual. that an established poet will publish individual new poems here and the
outlets before they publish a whole new book of poems. and when claudia rankin started doing that. when she started publishing her new work here and there a couple of years ago, it made a splash. it was kind of a literary sensation. she is an established artist, she s an established poet, but she was doing something sort of experimental that was having a big effect. it was really smacking people hard. it was getting a lot of attention and ultimately, a lot of praise. and the subject of this new work that she had started publishing was race. it was, everyday experiences of racism in the united states. and by the time claudia rankin was ready to publish those poems as a book, university of massachusetts poetry professor jill mcdonough, who s a good friend of mine, who i talked to about this, i asked her about what the impact was of that book and how big a deal claudia rankin s book, citizen, was in the poetry and the literary world. jill s characterization, to me,
it before, but bear with me here, i promise it pays off. a couple of years ago, a fairly well-known professor of poetry, professor from pomona college, started publishing some sort of experimental new work in literary magazines. i don t know exactly how that world works, but from what i understand, it s not that unusual. that an established poet will publish individual new poems here and there in various outlets before they publish a whole new book of poems. and when claudia rankin started doing that. when she started publishing her new work here and there a couple of years ago, it made a splash. it was kind of a literary sensation. she is an established artist, she s an established poet, but she was doing something sort of experimental that was having a big effect. it was really smacking people hard. it was getting a lot of attention and ultimately, a lot of praise. and the subject of this new work that she had started publishing was race. it was, everyday experiences of racism in the