Cannibal

by Sinclair, Safiya

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Title Statements

Full title :Cannibal / Safiya Sinclair.

Summary

"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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
Place of Publication:Lincoln
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:x, 111 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780803290631, 0803290632, 9780803295384, 0803295383
oclc:ocn946725972
LC Classification:PS3619.I56847
Dewey Decimal:811/.6

I. Home ; Pocomania ; In childhood, certain skies refined my seeing ; Fisherman's daughter ; Hands ; Portrait of Eve as the anaconda ; Mermaid ; Catacombs ; Dreaming in foreign ; Family portrait ; I shall account myself a happy creaturess ; Autobiography ; Osteology ; After the last austronauts had left us, I -- II. Notes on the state of Virginia, I ; America the beautiful ; Another white Christmas in Virginia ; One hundred amazing facts about the Negro, with complete proof, I ; One hundred amazing facts about the Negro, with complete proof, II ; One hundred amazing facts about the Negro, with complete proof, III ; Notes on the state of Virginia, II ; White apocrypha ; Notes on the state of Virginia, III ; Notes on the state of Virginia, IV ; Elocution lessons with Ms. Silverstone ; Litany for Charlottesville ; Notes on the state of Virginia, V -- III. Prayer book for vanishing ; Confessor ; Omen ; Good hair ; Woman, wound ; Woman, 26, remains optimistic as body turns to stone ; How to be an interesting woman: a polite guide for the poetess ; Birthmark, or purifying at the sink ; Little red plum ; Center of the world -- IV. After the last astronauts had left us, II (Laika) ; Spect…

Subjects

American poetry -- African American aut… Corps humain -- Poésie Femmes -- Poésie. -- Identité Human Body Human body -- Poetry Jamaican poetry -- Women authors Poésie Poetry POETRY -- American POETRY -- Caribbean & Latin American Women -- Identity Women -- Poetry. -- Identity