A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment.
Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of Cannibal, winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, tthe OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Cannibal was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, as well as being longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Sinclair's other honours include a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Nation, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in poetry at the University of Virginia, and is currently a PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. She is writing a memoir of chronicling her life growing up in Jamaica.
With exquisite lyrical precision, Safiya Sinclair is offering us a
new muscular music that is as brutal as it is beautiful.
Intelligent and elemental, these poems mark the debut of a poet who
is dangerously talented and desperately needed.
*Ada Limón*
Cannibal is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the
teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full
possession of her literary powers. Here is a poetry that richly
interrogates power and history while also eloquently and furtively
asserting the possibilities of nature, desire, and the body as
ceremonial and spiritual sources of resistance and affirmation.
*Major Jackson*
Book of the Month: A singingly gifted writer . . . Sinclair riffs
on this notion of savagery as she evokes her childhood in Jamaica
and explores race relations in the US; womanhood and otherness;
post-colonialism and life in exile . . . An astonishing talent.
*The Bookseller*
Covers so much ground: her Jamaican background, spirituality,
womanhood, America, race relations. She laces words together in a
beautiful tapestry, full of history, life, death and, most of all,
renewal.
*Morgan Jerkins, New York Times*
Filled with beautifully rich imagery . . . Lyrical and provocative,
Sinclair's poems teach the reader in rich language what it means to
be 'other'
*Buzzfeed Books*
Much like June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Sinclair is a force to be
reckoned with. Her stanzas will revive you and leave you
transformed.
*Lenny Letter*
Cannibal is the dazzling debut volume of Safiya Sinclair, born in
Montego Bay, Jamaica and living in the U.S. Her poems shimmer with
the rich colours and sounds of her homeland, but running through is
a sense of escape and of exile.
*Daily Mail*
Precise and provocative poems . . . Sinclair writes with a
thrilling sensibility of the texture of savageness
*New Statesman*
Safiya Sinclair bursts onto the shelves with this richly powerful
debut collection . . . Sinclair's material interweaves the
personal, the historical, and the political with language of
stunning originality . . . these poems are physical, enraged and
sensual but also reflected and precise.
*Scotsman*
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