Cannibal / Safiya Sinclair.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinclair, Safiya, author.

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.

Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Identity--Poetry.

Women.

Human body--Poetry.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, [Nebraska] ; London, [England] : 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

I.

Home

Pocomania

In Childhood, Certain Skies Refined My Seeing

Fisherman's Daughter

Hands

Portrait of Eve as the Anaconda

Mermaid

Catacombs

Dreaming in Foreign

Family Portrait

I Shall Account Myselfa Happy Creaturess

Autobiography

Osteology

After the Last Astronauts Had Left Us, I

II.

Notes on the State of Virginia, I

America the Beautiful

Another White Christmas in Virginia

One Hundred Amazing Facts About the Negro, with Complete Proof, I

One Hundred Amazing Facts About the Negro, with Complete Proof, II

One Hundred Amazing Facts About the Negro, with Complete Proof, III

Notes on the State of Virginia, II

White Apocrypha

Notes on the State of Virginia, III

Notes on the State of Virginia, IV

Elocution Lessons with Ms. Silverstone

Litany for Charlottesville

Notes on the State of Virginia, V

III.

Prayer Book for Vanishing

Confessor

Omen

Good Hair

Woman, Wound

Woman, 26, Remains Optimistic as Body Turns to Stone

How to Be an Interesting Woman: A Polite Guide for the Poetess

Birthmark, or Purifying at the Sink

Little Red Plum

Center of the World

IV.

After the Last Astronauts Had Left Us, II (Laika)

Spectre

Chimera

How to Excise a Tumor

Incorrigible

August Ghost

A Separation

In the Event of the Last Unhappiness, Return to the Sea

August in the Country of Another

Kingdom- come

The Art of Unselfing

Doubt

V.

Crania Americana

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803295384

0803295383

9780803295360

0803295367