Handal, Nathalie: Love & Strange Horses

University of Pittsburgh Press, paperback

Publication Date: April 16, 2010

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"Sometimes we have questions that seem to defy answers or even suppositions but then we find Love and Strange Horses to help us map out a course to continue loving life. A really wonderful, thoughtful read by an intriguing new voice."--Nikki Giovanni Winner of the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Award (Poetry)

The ambition of this collection is perhaps the purest that lyric poetry claims, that of music's immediacy. . . . Handal poses unanswerable questions and then struggles with them. The struggle is more important than the correct answer.-- " Poetry International"

A densely-textured book written by an unapologeticcally female (and feminine) perspective. As a young and inventive poet who sees herself as world citizen, Handal's insightful perspectives on the polarities of desire and love's potential for healing are not only heroic, they are valuable.-- " Lake Affect Magazine"

With a journalist's eye, a blind man's ear and a troubador's voice, Handal creates tableaus of lovers who seem always to be looking for love, even when they have found it. They yearn for love, approach it, confront it. She writes about the gentle pathos of love with the same fearlessness we find in her poems of exile, isolation and war.-- " Reading Eagle"

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