Review (PDF) Cannibal (Prairie Schooner Book Prize In Poetry)
Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award A Publishers Weekly "Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2016"One of BuzzFeed's "Incredible New Books You Need To Read This Fall"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.
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Paperback: 126 pages
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; 1 edition (September 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0803290632
ISBN-13: 978-0803290631
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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