Nuar Alsadir, poet, writer, and psychoanalyst
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Reading: 6:30 p.m., Harland Cinema(inside the Alumni Memorial University Center)
Book signing to follow
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Colloquium: 1:30-2:30 p.m., N301 Callaway
(Kemp Malone Library)
Nuar Alsadir is the author of a book of nonfiction, Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation, and two poetry collections, including Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and More Shadow Than Bird. She works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.
Excerpts (in modified form) from Animal Joy:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06/16/corpsing-on-sex-death-and-spontaneous-laughter/
https://granta.com/clown-school/
https://yalereview.org/article/alsadir-true-self-choice
https://lithub.com/nuar-alsadi-the-craft-of-writing-empathy/