{"product_id":"animal-joy-a-book-of-laughter-and-resuscitation-paperback","title":"Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNuar Alsadir\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e Must-Read Book of 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAster(ix) Journal's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 12 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn invigorating, continuously surprising book about the serious nature of laughter.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLaughter 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, \u003ci\u003eAnimal Joy\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bold and insatiably curious prose debut, \u003ci\u003eAnimal Joy\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNuar Alsadir\u003c\/b\u003e is a psychoanalyst and the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eFourth Person Singular\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize, and \u003ci\u003eMore Shadow Than Bird\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766857302304,"sku":"9781644450932","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6d93181cc9b4feec08ec53dd00ecc89f.webp?v=1780300097","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/animal-joy-a-book-of-laughter-and-resuscitation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}