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About this book
2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these? Or something else entirely? The works in this anthology showlyric essaysrely more on intuition than exposition, use image more than narration, and question more than answer. But despite all this looseness, the lyric essay still has responsibilities—to try to reveal something, to play with ideas, or to show a shift in thinking, however subtle.The whole of a lyric essay adds up to more than the sum of its parts. In A Harp in the Stars, Randon Billings Noble has collected lyric essays written in four different forms—flash, segmented, braided, and hermit crab—from a range of diverse writers. The collectionalso includes a section of craft essays—lyric essays about lyric essays. And because lyric essays can be so difficult to pin down, each contributor has supplemented their work with a short meditation on this boundary-breaking form.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Gyre
- Immortal Wound
- Vide
- Satellite
- Woven
- Re: Sometime aft er 5:00 p.m. on a Wednesday in the Middle of Autumn
- Searching for Gwen
- This Is the Room Where
- The Boys of New Delhi: An Essay in Four Hurts
- The Wait(ress)
- Beasts of the Fields
- In My Brother’s Shadow
- Mash-Up: A Family Album
- Nevermore
- Classified
- Prophecy
- Scars, Silence, and Dian Fossey
- Nausea
- Manual
- Elementary Primer
- The Punch
- Intersectional Landscapes
- My Mother’s Mother
- Apocalypse Logic
- The Sound of Things Breaking
- Self-Portrait in Apologies
- Fragment: Strength
- Body Wash: Instructions on Surviving Homelessness
- Informed Consent
- Thanks, but No
- Frida’s Circle
- A Catalog of Faith
- Practical Magic: A Beginner’s Grimoire
- Depends on Who You Ask
- Against Fidelity
- Loss Collection
- I’m No Sidney Poitier
- Why I Let Him Touch My Hair
- Thanatophobia
- Of a Confession, Sketched from Ten Vignettes
- The Heart as a Torn Muscle
- On Beauty Interrupted
- Late Bloom
- The Last Cricket
- Craft Essays
- Source Acknowledgments
- Contributors