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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 show lyric essays rely 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 collection also 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.
Contents
Introduction
Randon Billings Noble
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
Craft Essays
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
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors
