Edge
“A woman is perfected.”
Sylvia Plath
She is bare.
She is open.
Petals around her neck,
the moon on her shoulders,
she stares at the world,
takes it to the edge of
all the words
men weren’t able to invent.
To Rachel
Race Chronicle en Bref
Every time you ask my color
the world is totally silent
and any crack in the song
is not half a dream
it’s an entire country incomplete
The Reservation
If you don’t understand
your homeland
hunger makes it all clear
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Nathalie Handal is described as a “contemporary Orpheus.” She is the author and/or editor of 10 award winning books, including Life in a Country Album, winner of the Palestine Book Award; the flash collection The Republics, lauded as “one of the most inventive books by one of today’s most diverse writers,” and winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from the PEN Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, and the Africa Institute, among others. She is professor at New York University, and writes the literary travel column, “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.