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

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

<DIV><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></DIV>