Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, (Paperback)

from JimElkins

The rating is just for the use of images: I am researching the theory and history of books written with images. (writingwithimages.com) "Citizen" raises different issues. (The review is elsewhere on this site.) In "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" the use of images seems mnemonic, evidentiary, decorative,...

from dawnpen

Upon meeting with Rankine I fell over myself and said something dumb about Lydia Davis and that I pictured them getting a drink (or, you know, tea or something) while they were both living in the city. What I didn't tell her is that I pictured this and my being there and staring at them like some...

from whitewavedarling

This is a short but fascinating work of poetry and prose that works with issues of identity, depression, media and representation, and self-definition. Comical at times, heartbreaking at others, Rankine's work here is a cross-genre look at the individual as alienated from society by the absurdity...