Don’t Let Me Be Lonely // An American Lyric

A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’sDon’t Let Me Be Lonelyinvents 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 Lonelyis 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-winningCitizenandJust Usas the first book in her acclaimedAmericantrilogy.

Don’t Let Me Be Lonelyis a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness–a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.

Claudia Rankineis the author ofCitizen: An American Lyricand four previous books, includingDon’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Her work has appeared recently in theGuardian, theNew York Times Book Review, theNew York Times Magazine, and theWashington Post. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor ofPoets & Writers. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Rankine is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publish Date: July 09, 2024
• Pages: 176
• Dimensions: 5.5 X 8.0 X 1.0 inches | 1.0 pounds
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781644452554
• BISAC Categories: Essays, American – African American, Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, Ethnic Studies – African American Studies