Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Softcover

Rankine, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555974074 ISBN 13: 9781555974077

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2004

Synopsis

In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century

I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes
me the saddest. The sadness is not really about
George W. or our American optimism; the
sadness lives in the recognition that a life can
not matter.

The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. With wit and intelligence, Rankine strives toward an unprecedented clarity-of thought, imagination, and sentence-making-while arguing that recognition of others is the only salvation for ourselves, our art, and our government.

Don't Let Me Be Lonely is an important new confrontation with our culture, with a voice at its heart bewildered by its inadequacy in the face of race riots, terrorist attacks, medicated depression, and the antagonism of the television that won't leave us alone.

About this title

About the Author:

Claudia Rankine is the author of three collections of poetry: Nothing in Nature Is Private, The End of the Alphabet, and Plot. She teaches at the University of Georgia.

Review:

“Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a book that refuses the safe distance of being a spectator to the lives of others―as well as to ourown.”―The Rumpus

About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1555974074
• ISBN 13: 9781555974077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168