Fourth Person Singular

By Nuar Alsadir

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2017

Claudia Rankine described the poems in Alsadir's first book as 'lawless, ' 'provocative, and 'heartbreaking' as they 'converse from the inside out... come 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786940191
• ISBN13: 9781786940193
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Pavilion Poetry
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 7.5"