rev. of The End of the Alphabet by Claudia Rankine
The End of the Alphabet Poems by Claudia Rankine. Grove, $20.00 cloth. Reviewed by Michael J. Carter. In Claudia Rankine’s new collection, The End of the Alphabet, the always tenuous relationship between language and felt experience is stretched nearly to its limit: “The moment / of elucidation snipped its tongue.” Anguishing and fragmented, the voice…