By Safiya Sinclair
Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial id, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal discover Jamaican formative years and heritage, race family members in the United States, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She conjures up a house now not available and a physique from time to time uninhabitable, frequently reflected by means of a hybrid Eve/Caliban determine. Blooming with severe lyricism and fertile imagery, those full-blooded poems are stylish, mythic, and intricately woven. the following the feminine physique is a depressing panorama; the feminine physique is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers along with her willingness to disorient and impress, making a multitextured college of lovely and explosive poems.
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