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.
Author: Safiya Sinclair
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2016
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780803290631
Language: English
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