Lyric_essay
Lyric essay
Literary hybrid with elements of poetry
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.
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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."[2]
A forerunner of the lyrical essay is Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood (1966), a book which introduced the nonfiction American novel.[3]