Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry’s forms … one is left with a mix of emotions that linger and wend themselves into the subconscious * The New York Times *An unforgettable book … mesmerizing … terrifying – Jorie GrahamA master work in every sense – Robert CreeleyI don’t know of a book of poems that so unabashedly, startlingly, successfully partakes of this contemporary combination of turbulence and torpor … consuming * Pleiades *

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist and playwright; her numerous works include the ground-breaking American Lyric trilogy, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004), Citizen (2014) and Just Us (2020). A chancellor emerita of the Academy of American Poets, she is recipient of many honours including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Forward Prize and a MacArthur Fellowship. She is a professor of creative writing at New York University, and has previously taught at Pomona College and Yale University.