Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine with Janina Edwards (Narrator)

nonfiction essays memoir poetry emotional reflective sad medium-paced

1 hour, 35 minutes | first published 2004

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I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well kno...
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