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Summer 2009

The Lost Village

A Palestinian poet remembers the people and places he has lived without

By Nathalie Handal

On My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century by Adina Hoffman (Yale University Press, $27.50)

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Nathalie Handal is the author of numerous books and co-editor of Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond.

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