Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric "With shades of The Giving

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Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric "With shades of The GivingA 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