Animal Joy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animal Joy write by Nuar Alsadir. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Animal Joy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 An invigorating, continuously surprising book about the serious nature of laughter. Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter’s revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir’s experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied. Writing in a poetic, associative style, blending the personal with the theoretical, Alsadir ranges from her experience in clown school, Anna Karenina’s morphine addiction, Freud’s un-Freudian behaviors, marriage brokers and war brokers, to “Not Jokes,” Abu Ghraib, Frantz’s negrophobia, smut, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, laugh tracks, the problem with adjectives, and how poetry can wake us up. At the center of the book, however, is the author’s relationship with her daughters, who erupt into the text like sudden, unexpected laughter. These interventions—frank, tender, and always a challenge to the writer and her thinking—are like tiny revolutions, pointedly showing the dangers of being severed from one’s true self and hinting at ways one might be called back to it. A bold and insatiably curious prose debut, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
A Guide to Animal Joy
A Guide to Animal Joy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Animal Joy write by William R Twitchell. This book was released on 2022-08-24. A Guide to Animal Joy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY NUAR ALSADIR, NOR IS IT AFFILIATED WITH HER. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION WRITTEN TO REVIEW ALSADIR'S BOOK TO OFFER AN INSIGHT ON THE ORIGINAL BOOK. ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK In this thorough tour through the human psyche, psychoanalyst Alsadir examines the power of laughing. Alsadir says that genuine laughing stimulates "awakening," reveals one's "True Self," and reveals the "False Self" produced for societal compliance and security. The author gives deep insight into the uses of laughing to redistribute power and compares it to the musical word appoggiatura, a note that breaks an expected tune and evokes a deeper feeling. Alsadir navigates the intellectual terrain of Freud, Donald Winnicott, and neurophysiologist Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne with aplomb, referencing Heidegger's phrase Aletheia, or "truth as unconcealment," as effortlessly as she invokes pop culture references to trauma or Anna Karenina. Her asides include her description of attending clown school and her children's witty responses to the question, "What does beautiful mean?" - "beautiful means most self" - is especially noteworthy. Beautifully written and both humorous and heartbreaking.
More Shadow Than Bird
More Shadow Than Bird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Shadow Than Bird write by Nuar Alsadir. This book was released on 2012. More Shadow Than Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poems in More Shadow Than Bird are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. The quirky perspective and musical surface of these poems makes them engaging— deceptively catchy, even— as a mysterious darkness tows from beneath to draw the reader deeper in. This consciousness, even as it operates on a more philosophical level, is embodied—not abstract or removed— conveying a sense of rawness and honesty that is rare in non-representational work.
Fourth Person Singular
Fourth Person Singular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fourth Person Singular write by Nuar Alsadir. This book was released on 2017. Fourth Person Singular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Original and ambitious poetry that makes readers pay attention to the current conversation about the nature of lyric and human relationships in the 21st century.
The Book of (More) Delights
The Book of (More) Delights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of (More) Delights write by Ross Gay. This book was released on 2023-09-19. The Book of (More) Delights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
