Lives of Rain: Poems - Softcover

Handal, Nathalie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566566029 ISBN 13: 9781566566025

Publisher: Interlink Books, 2014

Synopsis

"In The Lives of Rain, Nathalie Handal has brought forth a work of radical displacement and uncertainty, moving continent to continent, giving voice to Palestinians of the diaspora in the utterance of one fiercely awake and compassionate, who, against warfare, occupation and brutality offers her native language, olives, wind, a herd of sheep or a burning mountain, radio music, a butterfly s gaze...Handal is a poet of deftly considered paradoxes and reversals, sensory evocations and mysteries left beautifully unresolved. Hers is a language seared by history and marked by the impress of extremity; so it is suffused with a rare species of wisdom." From the Foreword by Carolyn Forché

About this title

About the Author

Poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic and literary activist, she finished her postgraduate studies in English and Drama at University of London, her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature at Bennington College, Vermont, her Master of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Communications at Simmons College, Boston. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies and she is the author of The Neverfield and the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, an Academy of American Poets bestseller andwinner of the 2002 Pen Oakland/Josephine Miles Book Award. She has recently recorded "Traveling Rooms," a CD of her poetry with improvisational music by Vladimir Miller and Alexandr Alexandrov (ASC Records, 1999). She teaches at Columbia University.

Review

Handal's poetry tells the story over and over of the pain of separation, the heartache of missed chances, and the tradedy of a displaced culture... the poems wash over the reader like music, and the reader becomes witness and heir to the senseless pain created in this world, experienced and trasmitted by this poet. --Multicultural review

About this edition

• Publisher: Interlink Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1566566029
• ISBN 13: 9781566566025
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208