Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

Cannibal (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

<div><b>Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award </b></div><div><b>Winner of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters</b></div><div><b>Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Poetry)</b></div><div><b>An American Library Association</b><b> "Notable Book of the Year" </b></div><div><b>Finalist for the 2017 PEN USA Literary Award </b></div><div><b>Longlisted for the 2017 PEN Open Book Award</b></div><div><b>Longlisted for the 2017 Dylan Thomas Prize </b></div><div><b>One of BuzzFeed's Best Poetry Books of 2016</b></div><div><b>One of <i>The New Yorker</i>'s "Books We Loved in 2016"</b></div><div><b>A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> "Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2016"</b></div><div><br /><br />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.</div>