Meditations in an Emergency
“The reading of poetry is in itself an act of political resistance to the mainstream. Particularly in this election cycle, where there is this great anxiety for certainty. What is your position? What is your stance? Why are you flip-flopping? There’s an anxiety of certainty and power and boldness … But poetry acknowledges the true complexity of
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From Claudia Rankine’s ‘Don’t let me be lonely’ the book where she first developed the American lyric form: a combination of poetry, lyrical essay, photography and visual art.
“Don't Let Me Be Lonely is Rankine's meditation on the self bewildered by race riots, terrorism, medicated depression and television's... See more
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