Nathalie Handal

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Nathalie Handal


Born
in Haiti
July 29, 1969

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Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France and the Arab world. Described as “a Renaissance figure,” Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Kumunyakaa writes, “This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders.” Her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía, which Alice Walker lauds as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve,” and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award, which The New York Times says is “a book that trembles with belonging (and longing).” Handal is the editor of the groundbreaking classic The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, winner of the PEN Oakland Josep ...more

Average rating: 4.13 · 784 ratings · 123 reviews · 30 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Poetry of Arab Women: A...

4.03 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Poet in Andalucia (Pitt Poe...

3.94 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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Love and Strange Horses (Pi...

4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Lives of Rain: Poems

4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Life in a Country Album: Po...

4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
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The Neverfield: Poem

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The Republics (Pitt Poetry ...

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VOLO

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De l'amour des étranges che...

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“the poet I saw once...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles... ”
Nathalie Handal, The Neverfield: Poem
tags: poetry

“I'd like to be a shrine, so I can learn from peoples' prayers the story of hearts. I'd like to be a scarf so I can place it over my hair and understand other worlds. I'd like to be the voice of a soprano singer so I can move through all borders and see them vanish with every spell--binding note. I'd like to be light so I illuminate the dark. I'd like to be water to fill bodies so we can gently float together indefinitely. I'd like to be a lemon, to be zest all the time, or an olive tree to shimmer silver on the earth. Most of all, I'd like to be a poem, to reach your heart and stay.”
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