Citizen: An American Lyric Cover:Paperback It contains twenty-six lessons

It contains twenty-six lessons

and expectations

Mia McKenna has always found comfort in the darkness

A person who creates “book joy” by pulling a book from a shelf

aided by Sean Qualls’s striking black-and-white illustrations

Citizen: An American Lyric Cover:Paperback It contains twenty-six lessons* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L. A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York,