{"id":2423,"date":"2021-09-14T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:22:06","slug":"you-are-in-the-dark-in-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/you-are-in-the-dark-in-the-car\/","title":{"rendered":"You are in the dark, in the car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/56848\/citizen-you-are-in-the-dark-in-the-car\">You are in the dark, in the car<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Claudia Rankine<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>what it means<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">Racism is endemic in the United States.\u00a0\u00a0It is in every fiber of our beings.\u00a0\u00a0The stress of racism is killing Black people.<\/p>\n<h3>why I like it<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">Sure, there are plenty of stories about racism that happens in worlds totally different than mine\u2014the South, the hood\u2014but this work is about racism in my upper middle class academic world. It hurts. It hurts like hell, but I want to know it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0Claudia Rankine is one of the most important poets writing in America today.\u00a0\u00a0I heard her read in 2016. She was incredible. She combined videos and photos with these poems.<\/p>\n<h3>craft<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">\u00a0Let\u2019s not argue about the definition of poetry right now, shall we.\u00a0\u00a0This is some hybrid\u2014a lyric essay, a book long poem, an argumentative essay made of poems\u2014 this is in the poetry world right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are in the dark, in the car Claudia Rankine what it means Racism is endemic in the United States.\u00a0\u00a0It is in every fiber of our beings.\u00a0\u00a0The stress of racism is killing Black people. why I like it Sure, there are plenty of stories about racism that happens in worlds totally different than mine\u2014the South,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/debbiebacharach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}