Love and Strange Horses

Nathalie Handal

Love and Strange Horses

Nathalie Handal

Literature and Creative Writing

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"Trembles with belonging (and longing) and love and sex."
--The New York Times

"Nathalie Handal's Love and Strange Horses is riddled with provocative incantations that verge on a conjuring solidly based in this world and beyond. There's a subtle singing locked inside each poem that raises the stakes. This cosmopolitan voice belongs to the human family, and it luxuriates in crossing necessary borders. The pages are lit with scintillations that transport the reader to pithy zones of thought and pleasure."
--Yusef Komunyakaa

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and writer. She is the author of two previous poetry collections: The NeverField and The Lives of Rain. Handal is the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and coeditor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications including Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, and the Literary Review. She was named an honored finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award.
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Original language	English (US)
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press
Number of pages	104
ISBN (Electronic)	0822960605
ISBN (Print)	978-0822960607
State	Published - Apr 16 2010

Keywords

poetry, creative writing, love poetry, American poetry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Arts and Humanities

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