Cannibal
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.
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"Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary, absolutely unparalleled experience."--Diego Báez, Booklist starred review--Diego Báez"Booklist" (09/01/2016)
"This award-winning collection comes to eat you."--Waxwing Literary Journal--Waxwing Literary Journal
"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
-- (02/23/2016)
"Cannibal is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full possession of her literary powers. Here is a poetry that richly interrogates power and history while also eloquently and furtively asserting the possibilities of nature, desire, and the body as ceremonial and spiritual sources of resistance and affirmation."--Major Jackson, author of Roll Deep-- (02/23/2016)
"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
-- (02/23/2016)
