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Title

Hagar poems / Mohja Kahf ; foreword by Amina Wadud.

Author

Kahf, Mohja, 1967-

Publication

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

Wadud, Amina

Description

xiii, 109 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The central matter of this daring new collection is the story of Hagar, Abraham, and Sarah--the ancestral feuding family of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These poems delve into the Hajar story in Islam. They explore other figures from the Near Eastern heritage, such as Mary and Moses, and touch on figures from early Islam, such as Fatima and Aisha. Throughout, there is artful reconfiguring. Readers will find sequels and prequels to the traditional narratives, along with modernized figures claimed for contemporary conflicts. Hagar Poems is a compelling shakeup of not only Hagar's story but also of current roles of all kinds of women in all kinds of relationships."--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Hagar (Biblical figure) > Poetry
• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• Immigrants > Poetry
• Syrian Americans > Poetry
• Syrians > United States > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 109).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

-- The Water of Hajar -- The First Thing -- Hajar, First Woman on the Moon -- Hajar in America -- Professor and Mrs. Abraham -- Hajar Writes a Letter to Sarah as a Cathartic Exercise Suggested by Her Therapist -- Page Found Crumpled in the Wastebasket by Hajar's Writing Desk -- Kin -- From Sarah's Egypt Diary -- Sarah's Laugh II -- Hajar's Ram -- Isaac Wakes Up to Ismaïl and Hagar Terrorizing the House -- Hagar No Roses -- Hajar at the AIDS March -- Hajar's Sandals -- The Caseworker Visits Abraham and Sarah -- Hagar Dreamwork: The Therapist's Notes -- At the Snowcap -- The Fire of Hajar II -- Postcards from Hajar, a Correspondence in Four Parts -- The Threshold -- All Good -- Knowing at Arafat -- The Kaba's Lap -- Lifting the Hajar Heel -- Hajar Triumphant -- Hajar Enters the Garden, Well-Pleased and Well-Pleasing -- Hagar Begone -- Hajar Thorn -- Asiya Is Waiting for a Sign -- Asiya's Aberrance (Nushuz Asiya) -- Daughter of the Pharisees -- The Last Day before Asiya's Nervous Breakdown -- Asiya Meets Miriam at the Riverbank -- The Red Fish -- Arab and Hebrew Flow and Cross Over -- Among the Midianites on U.S. 31 -- Balqis Makes Solomon Sign a Pre-Nup -- Zuleikha Ionic -- Zuleikha Tantra -- The Ladies of the City -- The Zuleikha Hotline -- Mary Phones Her Old High School Teacher from the University Library at 4 a.m. -- Mary's Glade -- Not the Same -- Riverbank -- The Food of Mary -- Khadija Gets Her Groove Back -- Our Lady of the Sorrows -- Aisha of the Pearls -- Aisha Fails the Good Housekeeping Seal -- Aisha: The Islamic Inquirer exclusive -- Breaking: Aisha Claims to Be Post-Feminism -- Nusaiba at Uhud -- Bilal's Mother -- What Is Recorded of the Response of Ghazali's Wife on Being Informed by Her Husband the Great Theologian That He Was Quitting His Job, Leaving Her and Their Children, and Skipping Town to Find God and the Proper Worship Thereof -- What al-Ghazali's Mother Commented on the View of Her Son the Eminent Theologian that Women's Natures Tend Not Toward Spiritual Heights but the Baser Elements of Worldly Life Such as Bearing and Nursing Children and the Muck of Cooking, Cleaning, and Sex for Their Husbands and/or Masters -- The Black Stone of My Heart -- From a Former Grad Student of Imam Ibn al-Qayyim -- The Near Eastern Goddess Alumnae Office ... -- The Mihrab of the Mind -- Most Wanted -- Tortoise Prayer -- Little Mosque Poems -- References.

ISBN

• 9781682260005
• 1682260003

OCLC

• 946905502
• SCSB-12785637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library