{"product_id":"roma-roam","title":"Roma Roam","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathalie Handal's ninth collection, \u003ci\u003eRoma Roam\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicles an unraveling after the discovery of a lover's betrayals. These bold poems explore power, freedom, water, memory, and \"how \/ we hold history in our splitting bodies.\" The speaker opens herself to the opacity of human connections where \"passion can be a seafarer, \/ a daily resurrection\" and \"faithfulness \/ a long hesitation.\" Who—or what—do we betray when we roam other bodies? What roles do history, religion, art, and culture play in our infidelities? Rome stands as a crossroads of Mediterranean migration and diaspora—a symbolic center where cultures and civilizations interact and transform one another. What happens when the past and present, the city and the lover, truth and falsehood collide? \u003ci\u003eRoma Roam\u003c\/i\u003e offers a startling way of fathoming the enigmatic world—and our tenuous belonging within it. Wild, sexy, visionary, and unpredictable, the collection insists on desire as both rupture and revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathalie Handal\u003c\/b\u003e is described as a \"contemporary Orpheus.\" She has lived on four continents and is the author of more than ten award-winning books, including \u003ci\u003eLife in a Country Album\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Palestine Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Republics\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award; the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía; and \u003ci\u003eLove and Strange Horses\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. Handal is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Fondazione di Venezia, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, and the Africa Institute, among others. She is a professor at New York University-AD, and writes the column \"The City and the Writer\" for Words Without Borders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barrow Street","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52997136318781,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9781962131148ita.jpg?v=1789068132","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/roma-roam","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}