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    The lyric essay combines the limitations of non-fiction with the openness of poetry. The end result ideally is the world or an experience distilled to its essence. Perhaps the essay is simply our culture's latest attempt to do so.

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    The lyric essay combines the limitations of non-fiction with the openness of poetry. The end result ideally is the world or an experience distilled to its essence. Perhaps the essay is simply our culture's latest attempt to do so.

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    A NOTE ON THE LYRIC ESSAY Nick Flynn, feb 2007 The lyric essay has the potential to contain

    a great energy, in that it combines the limitations of non-fiction with the openness of poetry. It is this tension which interests me at the moment, this need to grapple with the world as it actually is, or appears to be, filtered through the transformative powers of poetry. The end result, ideally, is the world or an experience distilled to its essenceit can make the world or an individual's experience matter again. Or, to quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "We must make living and dying important again." Perhaps the lyric essay is simply our cultures latest attempt to do this.

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