21 November 2016
On the left-hand page, a memorial list of four black men killed by police-a list that ends with blank spaces for the others Rankine knew would follow, the words themselves fading away toward the end of the page. On the facing page, a terse three-line poem: "because white men can't/police their imagination/black men are dying." A 60-character, Twitter-ready statement.
Poetry, it seems, is back.
