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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."
The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents Nelson's multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. [1] [2] It was written between 2003 and 2006. [3] [4] The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude.
The dominant form of German lyric poetry in the period was the minnesang, "a love lyric based essentially on a fictitious relationship between a knight and his high-born lady". [12] Initially imitating the lyrics of the French troubadours and trouvères, minnesang soon established a distinctive tradition. [ 12 ]
Matthew Gavin Frank grew up in Illinois, before graduating from Arizona State University with an MFA. [1]He has previously taught at Grand Valley State University [2] and continues to teach in the English department at Northern Michigan University, [3] where he is also the Nonfiction and Hybrid Editor of the literary journal Passages North.
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For a text to be considered creative nonfiction, it must be factually accurate, and written with attention to literary style and technique. Lee Gutkind, founder of the magazine Creative Nonfiction, writes, "Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative nonfiction writer is to communicate information, just like a reporter, but to shape it in a way that reads like fiction."