
Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair
(Author)Description
Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
Product Details
Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
Publish Date | September 01, 2016 |
Pages | 126 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780803290631 |
Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary, absolutely unparalleled experience."--Diego Báez, Booklist starred review-- (9/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"Safiya Sinclair writes strange, mythological, gorgeously elaborate lyric poems, with a diction that is both arcane and contemporary. . . . Her language is distinctive, assured, and a marvel to read."--Cathy Park Hong, from her introduction to Safiya Sinclair in the Boston Review
-- (2/23/2016 12:00:00 AM)
"Stunning debut collection"--Publishers Weekly starred review
"This award-winning collection comes to eat you."--Waxwing Literary Journal
"With exquisite lyrical precision, Safiya Sinclair is offering us a new muscular music that is as brutal as it is beautiful. Intelligent and elemental, these poems mark the debut of a poet who is dangerously talented and desperately needed."--Ada Limón, author of Bright Dead Things
-- (2/23/2016 12:00:00 AM)
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