Kahf establishes herself as a new voice in the tradition of ethnic
American poets, blending the experiences of recent Arab-American
immigrants into contemporary American scenery. In her poems, Muslim
ritual and Qur'anic vocabulary move in next door to the idiom of
suburban Americana, and the legendary Scheherazad of the Thousand
and One Nights shows up in New Jersey, recast as a sophisticated
postcolonial feminist. Kahf's carefully crafted poems do not speak
only to important issues of ethnicity, gender, and religious
diversity in America, but also to universal human themes of family
and kinship, friendship, and the search for a place to pray. She
chronicles the specific griefs and pleasures of the immigrant and
writes an amulet for womanly power in the face of the world's
terrors. Her poetic energy is provocative and sassy, punctuated now
and then with a darker poem of elegiac sadness or refined rage.
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