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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.
Table of Contents
1. Consider the Lobster Mushroom: being a brief theory of the craft of creative nonfiction
2. Success in Circuit: Lyric Essay as Labyrinth
3. A Jump to the Left, and Then a Step to the Right: On Lateral Moves in the Lyric Essay
4. Mind the Gap: Writing Around Absence
5. Negative Capability: On White Space in the Lyric Essay
6. Fragmentation Grenade: The Violence of Hybridity
7. A Dash of Dash: The Lyric Art of Punctuation
8. Permissive Sieves
9. Strike a Chord: The Lyre That Makes the Lyric
10. The Resonance of Lyric Essays, or Lyre, Not Liar
11. Using Poetic Forms in Nonfiction
12. R(E)volution Pantoum: Play with Your Food
13. The Four Temperaments of Creative Nonfiction
14. Revisiting Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm
15. Ekphragrance
16. Watching Sausage Made: The Focus on Craft in Recent Creative Nonfiction Anthologies
Epilogue: Recital
Suggested Readings
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 21 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781350383012 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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