A Harp in the Stars
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A Harp in the Stars

An Anthology of Lyric Essays

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Harp in the Stars

An Anthology of Lyric Essays

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Gyre
  7. Immortal Wound
  8. Vide
  9. Satellite
  10. Woven
  11. Re: Sometime aft er 5:00 p.m. on a Wednesday in the Middle of Autumn
  12. Searching for Gwen
  13. This Is the Room Where
  14. The Boys of New Delhi: An Essay in Four Hurts
  15. The Wait(ress)
  16. Beasts of the Fields
  17. In My Brother’s Shadow
  18. Mash-Up: A Family Album
  19. Nevermore
  20. Classified
  21. Prophecy
  22. Scars, Silence, and Dian Fossey
  23. Nausea
  24. Manual
  25. Elementary Primer
  26. The Punch
  27. Intersectional Landscapes
  28. My Mother’s Mother
  29. Apocalypse Logic
  30. The Sound of Things Breaking
  31. Self-Portrait in Apologies
  32. Fragment: Strength
  33. Body Wash: Instructions on Surviving Homelessness
  34. Informed Consent
  35. Thanks, but No
  36. Frida’s Circle
  37. A Catalog of Faith
  38. Practical Magic: A Beginner’s Grimoire
  39. Depends on Who You Ask
  40. Against Fidelity
  41. Loss Collection
  42. I’m No Sidney Poitier
  43. Why I Let Him Touch My Hair
  44. Thanatophobia
  45. Of a Confession, Sketched from Ten Vignettes
  46. The Heart as a Torn Muscle
  47. On Beauty Interrupted
  48. Late Bloom
  49. The Last Cricket
  50. Craft Essays
  51. Source Acknowledgments
  52. Contributors