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. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments I. Home Pocomania In Childhood, Certain Skies Refned 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 Astronauts 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) Spectre Chimera How to Excise a Tumor Incorrigible August Ghost A Separation In the Event of the Last Unhappiness, Return to the Sea August in the Country of Another Kingdom-come The Art of Unselfing Doubt V. Crania Americana Notes "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"-- Provided by publisher "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"-- Résumé de l'éditeur 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. 朱力 "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"-- Résumé de l'éditeur