Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Race & Ethnic Relations and as if the Universe

and as if the Universe was gifting her for returning

In this vulnerable meditation

Cheryl Clarke

The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core

The Seers moves between past and present to paint a surreal and sensual portrait of a life being burned up in search of refuge

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Race & Ethnic Relations and as if the UniverseA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty first century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely invents 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