Linguistically fluid and geographically expansive, Nathalie
Handal's Life in a Country Album is a haunting hymn of
shapeshifting. Intimate and political at once, it is composed from
a palette that comprises brief revelations, such as Tendresse: A
Testament as well as expansive meditations like American Camino, in
which she asks, "So what if some hyphenate, and others don't?" This
question of belonging lies at the heart of Life in a Country Album:
who gets to decide who belongs? Can you be exiled from your own
sense of self, or as Nathalie puts it in Europa Nostra, "Now that
we are guests in our bodies, how do we survive?" One of the
remarkable things about this collection is how our current global
geopolitics can alter how it is read: an ill-reasoned airstrike and
the sense of a safe home becomes precarious. If a bed is a city of
teeming dreams then this collection is a world of human
possibilities. In its clarity, craft and chimeric language, it is a
love letter and admonition mailed by the same stamp. In this, her
seventh collection, Nathalie reaffirms that she remains an urgent
and singular voice in contemporary poetry.
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