Cannibal
Safiya Sinclair
U of Nebraska Press
<p>Colliding with and confronting <i>The Tempest</i> and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's <i>Cannibal</i> 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. <br> </p> 朱力