Cannibal / Safiya Sinclair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinclair, Safiya, author.

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Identity--Poetry.

Women.

Human body--Poetry.

Human body.

Women--Identity.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 111 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Colliding with and confrontingThe 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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Framed by "The Tempest" and calling on historical, cultural, and biological sources, "Cannibal" is a provocative poetic exploration of the female body, identity, and race"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780803290631

0803290632

OCLC:

946725972