Cannibal

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.