E-mails from Scheherazad / Mohja Kahf.

Author
Kahf, Mohja, 1967- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Description
102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    • Contemporary poetry series (Orlando, Fla.) [More in this series]
    • The University of Central Florida contemporary poetry series
    Summary note
    Explores what it is like to be a woman, a person of color, an immigrant, and a headscarf-wearing Muslim in a non-Muslim country.
    Contents
    • 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.
    ISBN
    • 0813026202 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780813026206 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0813026210 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780813026213 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2002043031
    OCLC
    51294142
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