Nathalie Handal’s Poet in Andalucía is a meditation on the past and the present. It renders in poetry a region that seems to hold the pulse of our earth, and where all of our stories assemble. It is a meditation on what has changed and what insists on remaining the same, on the mysteries that trouble and intrigue us, and on a poet who continues to call us to question what makes us human. Nathalie... 

by by Craig Epplin “A simultaneity of inconsolable coexistences”: this is the way Charles Bernstein has described American culture. A plural America, ultimately the Americas. Plural because of its continent-spanning reach and plural, also, because its past is always present. The horizon is never just a thin gray line dividing ocean from sky. It’s also a jagged relief of trees and mountains and... 

by Catherine Fletcher From her first collection, Nathalie Handal’s poetic language has been a personal patois of English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. Her poetry has explored and fused images and sounds, moments real and imagined from her many lives in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Palestine. As both critics and fellow poets including Tom Paulin and Lisa Suhair Majaj have noted,... 

by Nathalie Handal excerpt from Seven Stars in Sevilla December ‘27 1. Rafael Alberti ¿Adónde el Paraíso, sombra, tú que has estado? Pregunta con sílencio? You rest your voice on the white roofs. I rest my eyes on the ports where I saw my grandmother once. She thought it was Tripoli. We are in Cádiz. You stand at the bottom of the night with the rain. I stand under the lightning not too far...