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Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Paperback - 2004

by Claudia Rankine


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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.

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  • Title Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
  • Author Claudia Rankine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Graywolf Press, St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A
  • Date 2004-09-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781555974077 / 1555974074
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (25.40 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry - African American authors
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004104187
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Multicultural Review, 09/01/2005, Page 74
  • New Yorker (The), 10/27/2014, Page 73

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.

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