A harp in the stars : an anthology of lyric essays / edited by Randon Billings Noble.

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 show lyric essays rely more on intuition than exposition, use image more than narration, and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Noble, Randon Billings (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Gyre / Diane Seuss
  • Immortal wound / Jericho Parms
  • Vide / Sarah Minor
  • Satellite / Sarah Perry
  • Woven / Lidia Yuknavitch
  • Re: sometime after 5:00 p.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of autumn / Daniel Garcia
  • Searching for Gwen / Laurie Easter
  • This is the room where / Nels P. Highberg
  • The boys of New Delhi: an essay in four hurts / Sayantani Dasgupta
  • The wait(ress) / Amy Roost
  • Beasts of the fields / Aimée Baker
  • In my brother's shadow / Talea Anderson
  • Mash-up: a family album / Sarah Viren
  • Nevermore / Katie Manning
  • Classified / Susanna Donato
  • Prophecy / Eric Tran
  • Scars, silence, and Dian Fossey / Angie Chuang
  • Nausea / Layla Benitez-James
  • Manual / Amy Bowers
  • Elementary primer / Michael Dowdy
  • The punch / Christopher Linforth
  • Intersectional landscapes / Kristina Gaddy
  • My mother's mother / Davon Loeb
  • Apocalypse logic / Elissa Washuta
  • The sound of things breaking / Ru Freeman
  • Self-portrait in apologies / Sarah Einstein
  • Fragment: strength / Casandra López
  • Body wash: instructions on surviving homelessness / Dorothy Bendel
  • Informed consent / Elizabeth K. Brown
  • Thanks, but no / Emily Brisse
  • Frida's circle / Dinty W. Moore
  • A catalog of faith / Kelsey Inouye
  • Practical magic: a beginner's grimoire / Rowan McCandless
  • Depends on who you ask / Sandra Beasley
  • Against fidelity / Leslie Jill Patterson
  • Loss collection / Lia Purpura
  • I'm no Sidney Poitier / Curtis Smith
  • Why I let him touch my hair / Tyrese L. Coleman
  • Thanatophobia / Christen Noel Kauffman
  • Of a confession, sketched from ten vignettes / Latanya McQueen
  • The heart as a torn muscle / Randon Billings Noble
  • On beauty interrupted / Marsha McGregor
  • Late bloom / Caitlin Myer
  • The last cricket / Steve Edwards
  • Success in circuit: lyric essay as labyrinth / Heidi Czerwiec
  • Finding your voice / Marina Blitshteyn
  • Lying in the lyric / Chelsey Clammer
  • Chance operations / Maya Sonenberg
  • On the EEO genre sheet / Jenny Boully
  • What's missing here? / Julie Marie Wade
  • Meditations.