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Don't Let Me Be Lonely

An American Lyric

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Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Written by: Claudia Rankine
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
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I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter.

The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric and the essay in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. 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.

Don't Let Me Be Lonely is an important 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.

©2004 Claudia Rankine (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books African American African American Studies Americas Black & African American Poetry Social Sciences Specific Demographics United States
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I really liked this narration. It is a combination of witnessing and conditioning that lends itself to a becoming a beacon in a dense fog of nothingness with nobody to notice. Such a nice reflection of the atomization humans are capable of experiencing. This is not a self help book, or one that wants to change anything, but more some wonderful prose about well.. nobody in a world of nothing

beautiful lonely call for connection

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