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. Sadness lives in the recognition that a life can In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century terrifying' JORIE GRAHAM 'A master work in every sense' ROBERT CREELEY 'I don't know of a book of poems that so unabashedly, startlingly, successfully partakes of this contemporary combination of turbulence and torpor. 2,765 likes, 0 comments - ThePoeticValley (thepoeticvalley) on Instagram: 'Tonight through Saturday, calartsredcat in LA will present What Remains, a. one is left with a mix of emotions that linger and wend themselves into the subconscious' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'An unforgettable book.

'Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry's forms. Bush's presidency in an America still reeling from the 9/11 attacks and charging headlong into war in Iraq, this is an early 21st-century work of great wit, intelligence and depth of feeling, with urgent lessons for the present. Don't Let Me Be Lonely is Rankine's meditation on the self bewildered by race riots, terrorism, medicated depression and television's ubiquitous influence. 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.

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.

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