Shоrt аnswer: Answer the fоllоwing question with а 2-3 sentence response: Pаrt of the way that Rankine encourages new ways of seeing is through avant-garde techniques that distort traditional media representations of police violence. Critics such as Kevin Bell and Tana Jean Welch have noted similar interventions in Rankine's previous book of poetry, Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004), a work that both comments critically on television and uses images of static-filled TV screens as a structuring device. For instance, Welch argues that "Rankine 'stays messy' by exploding the boundaries of the lyric genre in order to disrupt the facile political frameworks promoted by the mass media" (124). What topos is being used here and how do you know?