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Thanks for another great exercise, Lee—and, most of all, for a great definition of the lyric essay. It’s a slippery concept, the lyric, and I for one am a sucker for new and better definitions. That’s partly because I see so many disparate essays claimed as lyric, including ones I’d call narrative, classical, or even reportorial.

Vol. XXXI, No. 1. Poems and lyric essays by Coleman Barks, Alfred Corn, Jorie Graham, Timothy Liu, Carl Phillips, Michael J. Rosen, and others. Translations from Cuba, Korea, Russia, and Turkey. Cover art by Katie Merz.

--Deborah Tall, Editor and John D'Agata, Associate Editor for Lyric Essays

Vol. XXXIV, No. 1
Spring 2004
New poems and lyric essays by Reza Baraheni, Katie Ford, Stephen Kuusisto, Ander Monson, Jane Satterfield, Reginald Shepherd, Katherine Soniat, A. Van Jordan, and others. Translations from
China and India. Cover Art by
Nicholas H. Ruth.


Columbia Writers' Workshop II: Creating the Lyric Essay

D’Agata, John, and Deborah Tall. “The Lyric Essay.” Seneca Review. Web. 5 May 2012.

Vol. XXXV, No. 2
Fall 2005
Poems and Lyric Essays by David Citino, Landis Everson, Phillip Pardi, Matthew Thorburn and Dara Wier. Translations from the Arabic, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish, including Ingeborg Bachmann and Mahmoud Darwish. Cover art by Katherine Jackson.

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