Citizen: An American Lyric

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African American Book Discussion Group - Athens

Citizen: An American Lyric

African American Authors Book Club

Meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 5:00 p.m.
At the Athens-Clarke County Library

The African American Authors Book Club is for anyone who is interested and who loves to read. The books are selected by members of the book club and are primarily books written by African American authors. Our objective is to broaden our knowledge of the many African American authors and their writings and just have fun reading.

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Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Heritage Room conference room, 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019

Award-winning poet Claudia Rankine's collection of essays, poetry, and images exposes the racial tensions in 21st-century life, highlighting the slights, slips of the tongue, and intentional offensives that pervade the home, school, and popular media. Citizen was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and is the only poetry book to be on the New York Times bestseller list in the nonfiction category.