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.
Sinclair received her MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia and is a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California..
Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, the Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
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.
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal.
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
