Friday, September 20, 2013

Don't Let Me Be Lonely

Hopefully I'm going about this in the right way, but I've decided to use Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely as my "primary work" for our class.  The book's subtitle reads: "An American Lyric."

Here's an article/review from BR on the book.  The reviewer has a hard time getting off the ground at first, but it gets better.

An excerpt from the book:

I don't usually talk to strangers, but it's four o'clock and I can't get a cab. I need a cab because I have packages, but it's four o'clock and all the cabs are off duty. They are making a shift change. At the bus stop I say, It's hard to get a cab now. The woman standing next to me glances over without turning her head. She faces the street where cab after cab drives by with it's lights off. She says, as if to anyone, It's hard to live now."


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