In what Robert Creeley calls her "master work"
Don't Let Me Be Lonely, (Gray Wolf, 2004),
Rankine manages
"an extraordinary melding of means to effect
the most articulate and moving testament to the
bleak times we live in." Blending poetry, images,
essay and prose, Rankine's work does more than
reflect a disappointing present, it challenges our
very way of reading the world, it asks us to see
more-- and with her expert guidance, we do.
Winner of the Cleveland State Poetry Prize and recipient of the 2005 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Claudia Rankine has published 4 books of poetry including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2004), PLOT (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995). She is also the co-editor of American Women Poets of the 21st Century (Wesleyn UP), and she teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston.
Claudia Rankine will be introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD Candidate, Charles Legere.
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Winner of the Cleveland State Poetry Prize and recipient of the 2005 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Claudia Rankine has published 4 books of poetry including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2004), PLOT (2001); The End of the Alphabet (1998); and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995). She is also the co-editor of American Women Poets of the 21st Century (Wesleyn UP), and she teaches in the writing program at the University of Houston.
Claudia Rankine will be introduced by UC Berkeley English PhD Candidate, Charles Legere.
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Thursday
October 12th
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
6:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
Q&A with the author to follow
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*From the judge’s citation for the Academy of American Poets Fellowship:
“Claudia Rankine has made of her savage and stern intelligence, her ruthlessness and her terror, great art.” —Academy Chancellor Louise Glück
A true poet's poet, Jamaican-born writer Claudia
Rankine is sure to engage and arrest even the most
jaded of bay area poetry readers. Rankine's poetry
is some of the most innovative and thoughful work
to emerge in recent years. In a genre-bending and
ever fluid set of poems, she continually explores
and reanimates the unsettling landscape of
contemporary American life, human relationships,
media and rhetoric.
