Cannibal
Author | : Safiya Sinclair |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2016-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780803295360 |
ISBN-13 | : 0803295367 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.