Paperback. Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger's How to Write an Essay excels in its study of human nature, set to the backdrop of academia. Chosen as the winning fall chapbook from Palette Poetry's 2025 Micro Chapbook Prize, the poems in How to Write an Essay explore the relationship between reader and writer, the value in collecting memories, and the important act of witnessing through one's writing. In her work, the idea of private versus public is constantly at play, questioning what the writer has to publicly unveil about her private life in the name of understanding or self-discovery. There is a war between the logical and emotional self, the overthinker and the instinctual writer. Through Wainger's open curiosity and woven philosophical webs, this collection of poems chases a thesis through the halls of a universally familiar school. Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger's How to Write an Essay was selected as the fall winner of the 2025 Micro Chapbook Prize from Palette Poetry. Her book is one of four in this collection of seasonal chapbooks. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: How to Write an Essay (Paperback)
Publisher: Red Mare Press
Publication Date: 2026
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798993902432
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger's How to Write an Essay excels in its study of human nature, set to the backdrop of academia. Chosen as the winning fall chapbook from Palette Poetry's 2025 Micro Chapbook Prize, the poems in How to Write an Essay explore the relationship between reader and writer, the value in collecting memories, and the important act of witnessing through one's writing. In her work, the idea of private versus public is constantly at play, questioning what the writer has to publicly unveil about her private life in the name of understanding or self-discovery. There is a war between the logical and emotional self, the overthinker and the instinctual writer. Through Wainger's open curiosity and woven philosophical webs, this collection of poems chases a thesis through the halls of a universally familiar school.

About the Author

LUCY XIANGFU WAINGER is from New York City. Her debut chapbook In Life There Are Many Things (Black Lawrence, 2023) won the Black River Chapbook competition. She currently lives in Chicago and works as a fifth-grade assistant teacher.

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