The first craft guide to the lyric essay form, this book combines hybrid craft essays that embody the key elements discussed, with more traditional craft essays that review relevant lyric theory, craft and history. An orientation to a form that is critical and creative, practical and accessible, Heidi Czerwiec centers the lyric essay on the lyre, on lyric mode, focusing on the resonances of sound, silence and image at the level of language. With topics including sound effects, imagery development, lateral movement, white space, fragmentation, using poetic craft and forms, and pedagogy, this book connects the dots between lyric theory and practice, offering the beginnings of a critical framework for a form that has been vastly undertheorized until now.
An essential guide to this exciting and popular hybrid form, Crafting the Lyric Essay will invigorate the study and writing of creative non-fiction.
- 192 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- On Lateral Moves
- A Jump to the Left, and Then a Step to the Right: On Lateral Moves in the Lyric Essay
- Lyric Time
- On Uses of Space
- Negative Capability
- Fragmentation Grenade: The Violence of Hybridity
- Permissive Sieves
- On Resonance
- The Resonance of Lyric Essays, or Lyre, Not Liar
- On the Image
- Pushing Up Daisies: Three Image Alt-Narratives
- On Poetic Forms
- (R)Evolution Pantoum: Play with Your Food
- The Four Temperaments of Creative Nonfiction
- Revisiting Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm
- Ekphragrance
- On Structure
- Thinking Cap
- Useful Distinctions, or, Why the Lyric Essay Is a Function, Not a Form
- Epilogue: Recital
- References
- Suggested Reading List
- Index
- Copyright
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