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An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine |
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| 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. |
Don't Let Me Be Lonely An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Graywolf Press, 2004. Order a copy |
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