| Publisher: | U of Nebraska Press |
| Genres: | Poetry Books, Fiction Books, Adult Books |
| Authors: | Safiya Sinclair |
| Pages: | 111 pages |
| ISBN13: | 9780803290631 |
| Tags: | Poetry Books, Fiction Books, Adult Books, PDF Books, Free Books |
| Language: | en |
| Type: | Digital |
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.
