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Lyric Essay is a literary hybrid that combines elements of poetry, essay, and memoir. [1] The lyric essay is a relatively new form of creative nonfiction. John D’Agata and Deborah Tall published a definition of the lyric essay in the Seneca Review in 1997: "The lyric essay takes from the prose poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language."
Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of poetry and short stories; Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of her poems; Federico García Lorca* — Diván del Tamarit, Poet in New York, Yerma, Sonnets of Dark Love; Mikhail Lermontov — Demon, The Princess of the Tide, Valerik
Angelou's autobiographies are distinct in style and narration, and "stretch over time and place", [2] from Arkansas to Africa and back to the US. They take place from the beginnings of World War II to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] Angelou wrote collections of essays, including Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) and Even the Stars Look Lonesome (1997), which ...
The famous New York Times restaurant critic's memoir of her first 30 years is a smorgasbord of compelling locations—New York in the 1960s, boarding school in Montreal, travels in Tunisia, Crete ...
In 2020, “Hillbilly Elegy” was made into a film directed by Ron Howard. The movie features Amy Adams as JD’s mother, Beverly Vance, Glenn Close as JD’s grandmother, and Gabriel Basso as JD ...
Confessional writing is often non-fictive and delivered in direct, first-person narration. Confessional writing usually involves the divulging and discussion of 'shameful matters', [25] including personal secrets and controversial perspectives in forms such as autobiography, diary, memoir, and also epistolary narratives.
The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist. Some memoirs may be less structured and less encompassing than formal autobiographical works. They may be about part of a life rather than the chronological telling of a life from childhood to adulthood/old age. Traditional memoirs dealt with public matters, rather than personal.
Sarah the Duchess of York, My Story. Sarah Ferguson has written two juicy memoirs, though it was her first, published in 1996, that really caused a ruckus with the royal family.