Six years later he published Outspeaks: A Rhapsody (1997), a lyrical memoir.

Meena Alexander is probably best known for lyrical memoirs that deal sensitively with struggles of women and disenfranchised groups.

A lyrical and visionary memoir of depression, Puerto Rican identity, and young womanhood.

He has written a book that makes the reader understand the terrifying experience of blindness and that stands on its own as the lyrical memoir of a poet.

Her lyrical memoir, Atlas of the Human Heart, which recounts Gore's teenage travels, was a 2004 finalist for the Oregon Book Award.

Newly rediscovered and edited by his great-great-granddaughter, Tyng's lyrical memoir is a testimonial to an ambitious but likable man with a penchant for the unusual.

In this lyrical memoir, he looks back on the poverty and misery of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland.

As Mr. Kamenetz describes it in this hypnotic, cryptically lyrical memoir, her decision to remain mute had a mysterious and deeply disturbing power.

A rare example of a lyrical self-help memoir, the book manages to describe the cleansing power of painful labor without romanticizing it.

This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran.