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Don´t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
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Description for Don´t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 2. Weight in Grams: 168.
The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxins 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. 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. Written in the years after 9/11, this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on ... Read more
The award-winning poet's powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxins 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. 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. Written in the years after 9/11, this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141984179
SKU
9780141984179
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About Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is the author of five books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and the bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she is the winner of many prizes including the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship. She is an adjunct professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Don´t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
I don't know of a book of poems that so unabashedly, startlingly, successfully partakes of this contemporary combination of turbulence and torpor ... consuming
Pleiades
A master work in every sense
Robert Creeley An unforgettable book ... mesmerizing ... terrifying
Jorie Graham Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry's forms ... one is left with a mix of emotions ... Read more
Pleiades
A master work in every sense
Robert Creeley An unforgettable book ... mesmerizing ... terrifying
Jorie Graham Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry's forms ... one is left with a mix of emotions ... Read more