Crafting the Lyric Essay : Strike a Chord
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Author: Czerwiec, Dr Heidi (Independent)
Creative writing & creative writing guides
Published on 21 March 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Academic) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback / softback | 192 pages, 10 bw illus
138 x 215 x 17 | 244g
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.