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by: Claudia Rankine
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9781555974077
ISBN: 1555974074
Label: Graywolf Press
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Sales Rank: 27530
Studio: Graywolf Press
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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 centuryI forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makesme the saddest. The sadness is not really aboutGeorge W. or our American optimism; thesadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot 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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Rating: - Poet's Pen: A Review of Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely
As a literary genre still fighting for a kind of ironic legitimacy, prose poetry received a Hail Mary the length of Doug Flutie's 1986 game-winning touchdown pass when Claudia Rankine published Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric with Graywolf Press in 2004. Not since I first discovered Carolyn Forché's "The Colonel" have a felt that I understood exactly what "real" or "good" prose poetry is, until reading this book.
Unlike other prose poets--including Lyn Hejinian's seminal ... Read More
Rating: - A necessary book
This is one of the books that defines our times. Greatly humourous and pleasantly dark in that ache to release you into the way you know personally, it's a book that comes to us and makes us say "oh, yes, that's it, exactly"--Personal, political, TV culture, taking lunch with a friend, reading a book, sitting up nights with insomnia, reaching out or wanting to learn to again reach out through the divides that silence us, bar us within our American apartments, border us inside of our familiar yet ... Read More
Rating: - Don't Let Me Be Lonely is an excellent book!!!
This book is a wonderful example of truth in creative writing. I love how personal it is and how wonderfully the personality of the author comes through every page. I highly recommend this book to anyone, it's not like anything I've read before.
Rating: - America in All Its Lyrical Truth
Image and word shape a unique poetry collection that only Rankine can deliver. The shape of this book initially drew my attention. However, I was not necessarily attracted to the book's front cover. Nevertheless, the selected photographs throughout the collection fit perfectly with the political nature of some of the poems.
The book itself has no index, thus making the entire structure of the book unconventional, a word describing Rankine's vision of America in all its "darkness." ... Read More
Rating: - Very moving
I just got this book on a friend's recommendation and thought that I would glance through it before going to sleep but I couldn't put it down. I ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting and can't wait to go through it again. It is so beautifully written and complex and moving. It is not like a typical poety book in that it is structured more like essays but the essays blend together and fold into one another. It is like poetry in that the choice of words and phrases makes the work very emotionally ... Read More
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