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A review by casparb
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
"claudia rankine" is usually the first part of a sentence, at least with contemporary poets. I've heard the sentence a lot, felt it when I read Citizen. The second half is "singlehandedly revolutionised how we think about lyric poetry".
Don't Let Me Be Lonely sits with a lot of my recent reading, esp. Denise Riley's Time Lived , it's a grief-chronicle in some ways, though less specific in its mourning. Episodic in a way. Also we've the time for medicalisation, the bigpharma world of the US & the atmosphere immediately after 9/11, PLENTY to work with I'm amazed she got so much in here. Her own death follows, a haunting ofc with tweaks and twinges of derrida, a neat invocation of Elizabeth Costello
this makes me want to read her first collection because HOW this voice was developed I am eager to know
Don't Let Me Be Lonely sits with a lot of my recent reading, esp. Denise Riley's Time Lived , it's a grief-chronicle in some ways, though less specific in its mourning. Episodic in a way. Also we've the time for medicalisation, the bigpharma world of the US & the atmosphere immediately after 9/11, PLENTY to work with I'm amazed she got so much in here. Her own death follows, a haunting ofc with tweaks and twinges of derrida, a neat invocation of Elizabeth Costello
this makes me want to read her first collection because HOW this voice was developed I am eager to know