Publisher's Synopsis
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. 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, they are elegant, mythic and intricately woven.
