Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Alsadir, Nuar
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Alsadir, Nuar

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best...
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Author: Nuar Alsadir
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Alsadir, Nuar

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

$21.60
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Alsadir, Nuar

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

$21.60
Author: Nuar Alsadir
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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.

Author: Nuar Alsadir
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 08/16/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781644450932


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2022 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 05/09/2022
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2022

About the Author
Nuar Alsadir is a psychoanalyst and the author of the poetry collections Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize, and More Shadow Than Bird. She lives in New York City.
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