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Hello and welcome to How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, the podcast that celebrates the things that

haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding that

why we fail ultimately makes us stronger because learning how to fail in life actually means

learning how to succeed better. I'm your host author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every week

I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure. Claudia Rankin is a poet,

playwright and essayist. Her life's work has ceaselessly interrogated race and white supremacy

with trademark lyricism and powerful curiosity. Her sentences can make you feel both simultaneously

punched in the gut and warmly caressed. She is by her own definition, accusative and loving.

Rankin is also genre-defying, blending poetry with reportage and textual analysis. Her 2014

book Citizen, an American lyric, is the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller

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