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Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

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A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars--doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age.

First published in 2004, Don't Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine's best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy.

Don't Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness--a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.

Book Details

Publisher:
Graywolf Press
ISBN:
9781644452554
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
176
Authors:
Claudia Rankine
Published Date:
2024-07-09
Language:
English

About Claudia Rankine

Author of Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), Claudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and earned a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Columbia University. Citizen won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2015, and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in both poetry and criticism. She works in formally hybrid texts combining poetry, prose, and images. Rankine received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and founded the Racial Imaginary Institute in 2017. She is a professor of creative writing at New York University.

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