E-Mails from Scheherazad

Name: E-Mails from Scheherazad
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ISBN: 9780813026213

ISBN-10: 0813026210

ISBN-13: 9780813026213

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mohja Kahf

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Mohja Kahf's poems blend the experiences of Arab American immigrants into contemporary American scenery. Within her poems, Muslim ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of suburban Americana, chronicling specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 4/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 118
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Voyager Dust


The Skaff Mother Tells the Story


Word from the Younger Skaff


Fayetteville as in Fate


The Roc


The Cherries


The Dream of Return


The Passing There


Lateefa


Hijab Scene #3


My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears


I Can Scent an Arab Man a Mile Away


Hijab Scene #5


My Babysitter Wears a Face-Veil


From the Patios of the Alhambra


Mahmud's First Letter Home from Minneapolis


Descent into JFK


Hijab Scene #7


Move Over


Hijab Scene #1


Hijab Scene #2


E-mail from Scheherazad


So You Think You Know Scheherazad


Finding Poems for My Students


You Are My Yemen


Grandfather


The Marvelous Women


The Quiet Knight


The Woman Dear to Herself


To My Queenly Daughters


My Body Is Not Your Battleground


Sacred Immorality


Men Kill Me


Ishtar Awakens in Chicago


Thawrah des Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective


If the Odalisques


Copulation in English


The Pistols of Emir Abdel Qader


Disbeliever


Parturition 1999


Snowfall on the Colossal Ruins


Khidr's Riddle


We Will Continue Like Twin Towers


The Fires Have Begun


Fatima Migrates in October


Redwoods


Poem to My Prodigal Brother


Would That I Had Met You in Amman


Affirmative Action Sonnet


Jasmine Snowfall


The Fork in the Road


Learning to Pray All Over


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