Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her recent poetry books include the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excelle
"Handal's newest collection is an ambitious work that looks back at
Spanish poet Federico García Lorca's 1940 classic, Poet in New
York. Handal says she recreates "Lorca's journey in reverse," by
narrating her journey through Spain. Accompanied by comprehensive
clarifying notes and a travelogue, Handal's collection resonates
with a scholarly understanding of Spain's religious and linguistic
influences."
--Publishers Weekly
"If writing draws us closer to the Other, a voice so lucid as that
of Nathalie Handal becomes a necessity. A perspective such as hers
allows for interpreting what transforms, remains, and unites. Poet
in Andalucía will be one of the most talked about poetry books of
2012 and beyond."
--Yolanda Castaño
"Nathalie Handal's brilliant new volume of poetry, Poet in
Andalucía--about Spain, about the Middle East, about shared
destinies and hopes--touches me deeply: it reminds us of what's
inconsolable, of what's multiple, of what's irreducible, and what's
simultaneous."
--Rattapallax Magazine
"Love and Strange Horses . . . trembles with belonging (and
longing)."
--New York Times
"Her work is a brilliant elegance."
--Afaa Michael Weaver
"Poems of depth and weight, and the sorrowing song of longing and
resolve."
--Alice Walker
"These poems make a beautiful reality for the poet, and for us,
which is truer than mortar and brick. It's with startling force
that Handal builds an architecture for the wanderer, and so makes
true the belief that the life of the mind may be a waking dream but
it's the place we finally live. In her displacement, Handal's
inward tone is of grieving, but the consequence of writing about
it, and writing with such fervor, is that cities are created where
we can visit."
--Exemplars
"This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it
luxuriates in crossing necessary borders."
--Yusef Komunyakaa on Love and Strange Horses
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