Description
Blending poetry, prose, photography, and cultural reflection, this formally inventive work offers a searching meditation on loneliness, death, mental health, and American identity. Moving through images of private anguish and public crisis, it examines how media, language, and national ideals shape the individual’s experience of isolation and connection. Its vulnerable, politically charged voice resists easy consolation while confronting the pressures of “American optimism” and the struggle to maintain a moral position in bleak times. Ultimately, the book asks whether art—and poetry in particular—can bridge the distance between one person and another.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2017
192 pages
ISBN: 9780141984179
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Details
First Published
2004
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine.