Cannibal Contributor(s): Sinclair, Safiya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803290632 ISBN-13: 9780803290631 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2016 Click for more in this series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2016007774 |
Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 126 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/15/2016 Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 32 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Sinclair received her MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia and is a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California. |
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