{"product_id":"triage-claudia-rankine","title":"Triage - Claudia Rankine","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReserve your copy now! Expected release is August 4, 2026. Will ship on or after August 4, 2026. Limited copies available.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Us\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClaudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows the turbulent friendship between two composite characters, the narrator and the theorist, self-identified sisters struggling to define their wounded histories and their shared but separate lives. During college, they invent a game of Every time they see each other, they have to stop and fall to the ground. As their kinship continues off and on for decades, “collapse” takes on new meanings that are seen and felt in the violence of their pasts, artworks depicting couches where someone might ease their exhaustion, the ongoing devastation in Gaza, and the antagonism of their conversation and their love for each other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an argument for the necessity of grieving and the demand for action in our time of relentless loss. “No matter our posture,” Rankine writes, “we are all among the rubble.” This is a book for those complicated but beautiful friendships that we come to rely on to unsettle us, to make us better.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eClaudia Rankine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCitizen: An American Lyric \u003c\/span\u003eand four previous books, including \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDon’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric\u003c\/span\u003e. Her work has appeared recently in the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/span\u003e, the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e, the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e, and the \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/span\u003e. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Rankine is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"Expected Release - August 4\/26","offer_id":51275023614269,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/718xTowkcrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768497566","url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/products\/triage-claudia-rankine","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}