Fourth Person Singular (Pavilion Poetry LUP)
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (771 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786940191 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is on the faculty at New York University, and works as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including 'Granta', 'The New York Times Magazine', 'Slate', 'Grand Street', the 'Kenyon Review', 'tender', 'Poetry London' and 'Poetry Review'; and a collection of her poems, 'More Shadow Than Bird', was published by Salt in 2012. Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writ
The rare joy of a writer finding the exact form for their voice and their mission. Alsadir's work is, as ever, full of astute observations and insights driven by a deep intellect, alive to the world and our fears, pressures, dreams and ideas. But there's something greater here too: a unity of form and content, process and delivery which transfigures the conceptual and the lyric. It is that whole that is the complex and revelatory poem.' George Szirtes'Fourth Person Singular is an elegant reckoning with the paradoxical temporality and multiple ontology of first-person writing. In probing the possibility and claims of lyric poetry, as well as its relationship to shame, Alsadir provides a powerful, ambivalent, yet beautiful instance of its ongoing ne
As unexpected as it is bold, Alsadir's ambitious tour de force demands we pay new attention to the current conversation about the nature of lyric - and human relationships - in the 21st century.. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017.Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir's first book as 'lawless,' 'provocative, and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse from the inside outcome alive in the back and forth of a mind attempting to understand what it means to be in relation to.' Fourth Person Singular continues to blow open the relationship between self and world in a working through of lyric shame, bending poetic form through fragment, lyric essay, aphorisms mined from the unconscious, and pop-up associations, to explore the complexities, congruities, disturbances - as well as the beauty - involved in self-representation in language