Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Race & Ethnic Relations and several other Black women

and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo

The Seers moves between past and present to paint a surreal and sensual portrait of a life being burned up in search of refuge

A plus-size single mother struggles to fit into spaces not made for her in this soulful

and as if the Universe was gifting her for returning

All this before noon

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Race & Ethnic Relations and several other Black womenA 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