Download or read book The Flexible Lyric written by Ellen Bryant Voigt and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author contends that the traditional form of writing "lyric" has been deprecated as a genre, in favor of modern narrative and drama. She presents her views that lyrics are as powerful and poignant an artform as they have ever been by examining structure and meaning in the verse form.