{"id":10189,"date":"2018-11-24T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=10189"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:11:46","slug":"nasser-hussain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/nasser-hussain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasser Hussain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nasser Hussain earned a BA in English from Queen’s University, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, and a PhD in English from the University of York (UK). He is a Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing at Leeds Beckett University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Love Language<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Love Language<\/em> loves language. These are poems that repeat and hypnotize as English becomes more absurd: from Apple’s terms and conditions to other poet’s love poems, from performance reports to pop songs, Hussain skillfully and joyfully toys with everyday texts to talk about love, to think about poems, to call out racism, to remind us that words can be fun. Allow these playful poems to woo you, to let you fall in love with language again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Coach House Books, 2026.
forthcoming Sept. 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Missing everything but the point: visual poetry celebrating excitement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ufeff\ufeffThe exclamation point is much maligned. It\u2019s bad style. It\u2019s like laughing at your own joke. It screams, it yells, it\u2019s hysterical, it\u2019s maybe even embarrassingly obsequious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nasser Hussain disagrees! What\u2019s so bad about expressing enthusiasm? What if you really need to scream? The prescriptions of \u2018style\u2019 can feel like an artificial limit placed on our language, insisting we produce a bland monotone that trades on its appearance as rational, subdued, civilized discourse. Against this, The Point, where poetry bangs its head against this veneer of rationality. Poetry, it insists, is exciting! Is, maybe, excitement itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Point is composed using only exclamation marks, seeking to reclaim the dignity of the bang\u2019s and explore its expressive possibilities. Against the well-known derision of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elmore Leonard, and Gertrude Stein, Hussain uses the exclamation point to make a point: let\u2019s celebrate the possibility of enthusiasm!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SKY WRI TEI NGS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Maps by Matthew Stephenson.
Toronto: Coach House Books, 2018.
PS8615 .U88 S59 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Poems written only from three-letter airport codes demand a new kind of passport. Every major airport has a three-letter code from the International Air Transport Association. In perhaps history’s greatest-ever feat of armchair travel, Nasser Hussain has written a collection of poetry entirely from those codes. In a dazzling aeronautic feat of constraint-based writing, SKY WRI TEI NGS<\/em> explores the relationship between language and place in a global context. Watch as words jet-set across the map, leaving a poetic flight path. See letters take flight (and leave their baggage behind).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hussain’s faculty profile page<\/a> at the Leeds Beckett University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nasser Hussain earned a BA in English from Queen’s University, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, and a PhD in English from the University of York (UK). He is a Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22202,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10189\/revisions\/22202"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}