Citizen: Claudia Rankine

[rayheinrich]

isn't it something good poetry has always done....

Yes, good poetry in that catagory has always done this; that's what makes hers good poetry.

for me it's not really a phenom, though i suppose great poetry is always that. if the excerpt is anything t
o go by it seems like a reasonable read but more prose than poetry. [a weak marriage to say the least]

Then call it prose-poetry, if you will. Its classification isn't that relevant to me, what's important is what it conveys.