Fourth Person Singular (Pavilion Poetry LUP)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1786940191 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It is more than its pieces: it is a whole that is a form of understanding. 'Fourth Person Singular is poetry that is neither verse nor exactly prose poetry, but aphorism, perception, quotation, annotation, a squeezing between the gaps in the windows and doorways of experience seeking for air. The rare joy of a writer finding the exact form for their voice and their mission. Essential reading.' Luke Kennard. 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. But there's something greater here too: a unity of form and content, process and delivery which transfigures the conceptual and the lyric. 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. I don't remember the last time I
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. 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.
Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer and psychoanalyst. 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