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.
Here the female body is a dark.
Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery, these full-blooded poems are elegant, mythic, and intricately woven.
She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure.
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