Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric [Paperback]

A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia RankinesDont 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 warsdoom 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,Dont 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 Rankines best-selling and award-winningCitizenandJust Usas the first book in her acclaimedAmericantrilogy.

Dont Let Me Be Lonelyis a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousnessa book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.