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.ĭon’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. 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. Claudia Rankine’s book Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyrictackles just that, attempting, through its hybrid, multi-genre format, to situate and depict the intricacies of loneliness in the 21st century, an age of rising technological and media presence, and cultures that are still too often busy to explore or understand the self. Sadness lives in the recognition that a life can

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado £8.In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.

At any time, this book would have kept me in my thoughts. Parts of the book begged a second or third re-read.

The Xenofeminist Manifesto by Laboria Cuboniks £7.99 Add to cart The book is a series of reflections where Rankine somehow intertwines her thoughts about bereavement and isolation, American society, TV images she has taken in and everyday impacts of Big Pharma.

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Citizen : An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine £9.99 Add to cart Dont Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Rankine, Claudia at .uk - ISBN 10: 0141984171 - ISBN 13: 9780141984179 - Penguin - 2017 - Softcover.

Written in the years after 9/11, this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on life and death in a nation in flux.

Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the ‘American Lyric’ form which makes her Forward Prize-winning collection Citizen so distinctive: an original combination of poetry, lyric essay, photography and visual art, virtuosically deployed.ĭon’t Let Me Be Lonely is Rankine’s meditation on the self bewildered by race riots, terrorism, medicated depression and television’s ubiquitous influence. The award-winning poet’s powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxins.

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