![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (1996). Her work often crosses genres as it tracks wild and precise movements of mind. 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. Source: Don't Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2004) Activities Living Social Commentaries Poet Bio Born in Kingston, Jamaica, poet Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely occupies the liminal space between hope and whatever is opposite hope, though Rankine never names this opposite. ![]() 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. As a Black woman in New York City, the speaker of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely struggles against racism, deepening the isolation she feels in the post-9/11 world. 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 ![]()
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