Cannibal

By: Safiya Sinclair

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Paperback | 1 September 2016

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126 Pages

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23 x 15.1 x 1.3

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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.

Industry Reviews

"Stunning debut collection"-Publishers Weekly starred review
"Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary, absolutely unparalleled experience."-Diego Baez, Booklist starred review
"This award-winning collection comes to eat you."-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

"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
"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 Limon, author of Bright Dead Things

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