ABOUT THIS BOOK

Frederico García lived in Manhattan from 1929 to 1930, and the poetry he wrote about the city, Poet in New York, was posthumously published in 1940. Eighty years after Lorca’s sojourn to America, Nathalie Handal, a poet from New York, went to Spain to write Poet in Andalucía. Handal recreated Lorca’s journey in reverse.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Nathalie Handal is the author of numerous books, including Love and Strange Horses, a 2011 Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award winner, and coeditor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond. Her work has appeared in many publications, namely, the Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Guernica Magazine. She is a Lannan Foundation Fellow, recipient of the Alejo Zuloaga Order in Literature 2011, the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award, and an Honored Finalist for the Gift of Freedom Award, among other honors.

REVIEWS

“Poems of depth and weight, and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve.”
—Alice Walker

“Nathalie Handal’s brilliant new volume of poetry, Poet in Andalucía—about Spain, about the Middle East, about shared destinies and hopes—touches me deeply: it reminds us of what’s inconsolable, of what’s multiple, of what’s irreducible, and what’s simultaneous.”
—Rattapallax Magazine

“If writing draws us closer to the Other, a voice so lucid as that of Nathalie Handal becomes a necessity. A perspective such as hers allows for interpreting what transforms, remains, and unites. Poet in Andalucía will be one of the most talked about poetry books of 2012 and beyond.”
—Yolanda Castaño

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

I. Poems of Soledad con Biznagas in Málaga

Ojalá

Walking to the Alcázar

The Wounded Horse and a Tree in an Old Night

Gypsy with a Song

Tomás Heredia, 8

Biznagas

II. Maktoub, the Moor Said

El País

Tree of Red Leaves, Jaén 2009

Paraguas Perdido

The Courtyard of Colegiata del Salvador

Sacromonte

The Moor

III. Alleys and Reveries

Christmas in Benalmádena

On the Way to Jerez de la Frontera

The Thing about Feathers

Now That

Prophet in Andalucía

IV. Constelación en el Ateneo de Sevilla

Seven Stars in Sevilla

V. In Córdoba

Alhandal y las Murallas de Córdoba

10 Qit’as

Patios

VI. By the Door, or Is It Death

Dado

La Guerra

While Waiting for Death

VII. Granada

Sheets of Dry Wind

Granada Sings Whitman

VIII. Convivencia

Awon / Sin

Convivencia / Two Ghazals Two Tzvis

Abásho

The Book of Toledo

IX. Flight to Catalunya and Afternoons in Galicia

Testament in Barcelona

Quartet in Catalunya

Waltz of a Dream

Santiago

X. The Poet Arrives in Tangier and Afterward

Tanger Bleu

La Movida

The Traveler

On My Way to Tamarit

Notes and Memories

Acknowledgments

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