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The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology. Nathalie Handal, ed. New York/Northampton, Massachusetts Interlink. 2001. 355 pages. $22 ISSN 1-56656-374-7

THE POETIC VOICES of Arab women in the Arab world and of women of Arab origin living elsewhere are beautifully captured in this timely volume edited by the Arab-American scholar and poet Nathalie Handal. In 209 poems of various styles and lengths by eighty-three women poets, the anthology succeeds eminently in giving the reader the opportunity to appreciate the new and powerful verse of contemporary Arab women. Other than poems originally written in English, the majority of the poems have been translated ... 







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