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. In her fourth book, Dont Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004), Claudia Rankine utilizes investigative poetics to disrupt the facile political frameworks promoted by mass media, writing poetry that engages the complexity of existence while emphasizing material interconnectedness and embodiment. 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. She went to the hospital to give birth and returned without the baby. When I was eight my mother became pregnant.

Sadness lives in the recognition that a life can Don't Let Me Be Lonely There was a time There was a time I could say no one I knew well had died. In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including, most recently, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf, 2014) which continues Rankines.

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