RaveJewish Currents... her work rejects the embrace of any we for whom sharing is an uncomplicated act ... Reading these poems, it is impossible to sustain the fiction of a relationship—including a readership—wholly bracketed from the world empire has made ... Out of sync with her surroundings, the speaker wields the perceptive powers estrangement grants ... In the face of the impossible task of contesting the violences of language from the inside, Sharif presses the boundaries of the possible, recording and disrupting the process by which the borders of the social are produced and patrolled.
