How to Write an Essay

By Lucy Xiang-Fu Wainger

How to Write an Essay is an attempt for the time being. These poems take seriously John D'Agata's question-and-answer: "What is a lyric essay? It's an oxymoron: an essay that's also a lyric; a kind of logic that wants to sing; an argument that has no chance of proving anything." Trying and failing, in other words, is a complete poetics. In lyrics and broken prose, Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger interrogates desire, memory, the dialectic between thinking and feeling, and what it means to have once been a child. Read and know that you are the exact, specific person to whom she is speaking.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYV9KHPV
• ISBN13: 9798993902432
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Red Mare Press
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 4.0" x 6.0"