I missed meeting Nathalie Handal because I was on cross-cultural the semester she visited EMU. She is a Palestinian poet, part of her country's diaspora, having lived for a time in Central America, Europe, and now in the U.S. Thia bought me a book of hers three years ago called Love and Strange Horses, which I will read from later this month; the book I am reading from today is The Lives of Rain, which was a more recent gift.
Nathalie signed my copy of Love and Strange Horses with the phrase: Emily - may we meet in Palestine and on the page.
We both may well never return to Palestine, but I'd like to think that the second of those meetings has already happened.
Nathalie signed my copy of Love and Strange Horses with the phrase: Emily - may we meet in Palestine and on the page.
We both may well never return to Palestine, but I'd like to think that the second of those meetings has already happened.
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