TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinclair,Safiya
TI  - Cannibal /Safiya Sinclair
T2  - Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
SN  - 9780803295384
AV  - PS3619 .C366 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Identity
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Human body
KW  - POETRY
KW  - Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; I.; II.; III.; IV.; V.; Notes; 2; b
N2  - "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"--; "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"--
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