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.Ĭlaudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. 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.

or our American optimism the sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter. The sadness is not really about George W. Feminism for the 99% by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser £7.In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Critique by Brad Evans £9.99 Add to cart.

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Citizen : An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine £9.99 Add to cart.

Written in the years after 9/11, this is an unflinching and deeply felt meditation on life and death in a nation in flux. 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.ĭon’t Let Me Be Lonely is Rankine’s meditation on the self bewildered by race riots, terrorism, medicated depression and television’s ubiquitous influence.

The award-winning poet’s powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxins.

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