Rankine teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston.įinalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Poet Claudia Rankine, widely celebrated for her experimental multi-genre writing, fuses the lyric poem, the essay, and the visual image in Don't Let Me Be Lonely. She is also the co-editor of American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language. 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 the author of three previous collections of poetry: Nothing in Nature Is Private, The End of the Alphabet, and Plot. 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. 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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