Publisher: | U of Nebraska Press |
Genres: | Fiction Books, Poetry Books, Adult & Contemporary Romance |
Authors: | Safiya Sinclair |
Pages: | 111 pages |
ISBN10: | 0803290632 |
ISBN13: | 9780803290631 |
Tags: | Fiction Books, Poetry Books, Adult & Contemporary Romance, Free Download, PDF Download |
Language: | en |
Physical Form: | PDF Book |
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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.