Nuar Alsadir
Nuar Alsadir is a poet, essayist and psychoanalyst. She is the author of the poetry collections Fourth Person Singular, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection; and More Shadow Than Bird. She is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and works as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.
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Poetry | Issue 148
Quantum Displacement
Nuar Alsadir
‘I don’t want / to be a figure others lean their names into’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 148
since feeling is first
Nuar Alsadir
‘The way we manage erotic knowledge is connected to our handling of unwanted truths’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 148
Clown School
Nuar Alsadir
Political resistance, poetry, self-revelation all spring from that provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints.
Art & Photography
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Issue 140
Imagined Memories
Francesca Todde & Nuar Alsadir
‘The creation of a screen memory is an encoding process: the screen retains all that is important from the past, but in encrypted form.’ Nuar Alsadir introduces the photographs of Francesca Todde.
Poetry | Issue 140
Fourth Person Singular
Nuar Alsadir
‘The wet in the air is like signal anxiety: life is about to / change.’