Abstract
This essay investigates the modes of style and methodology by which Claudia Rankine's 2004 multi-genre text Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric animates concrete intertwinements between headline news and innovative literature; between hyper-capitalist marketing strategies and the incommunicability of physical and psychic suffering; between language's insubstantiality and the ever-intensifying Lyotardian demand for "new idioms" of political/aesthetic expressivity, sounded not only by the contemporary forms of social abjection and destitution thematized in the text—but by the experimental forms of its own presentation. Concentrating heavily on the self-effacing tonalities of the text, this essay traces the philosophic and tropic insistences structuring its implicit critique of the ideological position of critique itself.
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