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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

by Nuar Alsadir

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

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781644450932