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020			_a1644450933 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781644450932 _q(paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1264273633
092			_a814.6 _bA461
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aAlsadir, Nuar, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAnimal joy : _ba book of laughter and resuscitation / _cNuar Alsadir.
264		1	_aMinneapolis, Minnesota : _bGraywolf Press, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022
300			_a279 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-279).
520			_aTaking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
520			_aLaughter 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.
650		0	_aMothers and daughters. _911992
650		0	_aWit and humor. _921155
655		7	_aEssays. _2lcgft _95184
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