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How to Write an Essay
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Series: 2025 Micro Chapbook Prize, Book 3
Publisher Price: $7.99
Publisher: Red Mare Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.05
Height: 0.06 Width: 4.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
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.
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