{"product_id":"cannibal-paperback-softback-9780803290631","title":"Cannibal (Paperback \/ softback) 9780803290631","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCannibal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSafiya Sinclair (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803290631, University of Nebraska Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e126 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.206 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Stunning debut collection\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary, absolutely unparalleled experience.\"-Diego BÁez, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This award-winning collection comes to eat you.\"-\u003ci\u003eWaxwing Literary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Safiya Sinclair writes strange, mythological, gorgeously elaborate lyric poems, with a diction that is both arcane and contemporary. . . . Her language is distinctive, assured, and a marvel to read.”-Cathy Park Hong, from her introduction to Safiya Sinclair in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCannibal\u003c\/i\u003e 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, author of \u003ci\u003eRoll Deep\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“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, author of \u003ci\u003eBright Dead Things \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eColliding with and confronting \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s \u003ci\u003eCannibal\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I.\u003cbr\u003e Home\u003cbr\u003e Pocomania\u003cbr\u003e In Childhood, Certain Skies Refined My Seeing\u003cbr\u003e Fisherman’\u003cbr\u003es Daughter\u003cbr\u003e Hands\u003cbr\u003e Portrait of Eve as the Anaconda\u003cbr\u003e Mermaid\u003cbr\u003e Catacombs\u003cbr\u003e Dreaming in Foreign\u003cbr\u003e Family Portrait\u003cbr\u003e I Shall Account Myself a Happy Creaturess\u003cbr\u003e Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e Osteology\u003cbr\u003e After the Last Astronauts Had Left Us, I\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eII.\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the State of Virginia, I\u003cbr\u003e America the Beautiful\u003cbr\u003e Another White Christmas in Virginia\u003cbr\u003e One Hundred Amazing Facts About the Negro, with Complete Proof, I\u003cbr\u003e One Hundred Amazing Facts About the Negro, with Complete Proof, II\u003cbr\u003e One Hundred Amazing Facts About the Negro, with Complete Proof, III\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the State of Virginia, II\u003cbr\u003e White Apocrypha\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the State of Virginia, III\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the State of Virginia, IV\u003cbr\u003e Elocution Lessons with Ms. Silverstone\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the State of Virginia, V\u003cbr\u003e Litany for Charlottesville\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the State of Virginia, VI\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIII.\u003cbr\u003e Prayer Book for Vanishing\u003cbr\u003e Confessor\u003cbr\u003e Omen\u003cbr\u003e Good Hair\u003cbr\u003e Woman, Wound\u003cbr\u003e Woman, 26, Remains Optimistic as Body Turns to Stone\u003cbr\u003e How to Be an Interesting Woman: A Polite Guide for the Poetess\u003cbr\u003e Birthmark, or Purifying at the Sink\u003cbr\u003e Little Red Plum\u003cbr\u003e Center of the World\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIV.\u003cbr\u003e After the Last Astronauts Had Left Us, II (Laika)\u003cbr\u003e Spectre \u003cbr\u003e Chimera\u003cbr\u003e How to Excise a Tumor\u003cbr\u003e Incorrigible\u003cbr\u003e August Ghost\u003cbr\u003e A Separation\u003cbr\u003e In the Event of the Last Unhappiness, Return to the Sea\u003cbr\u003e August in the Country of Another\u003cbr\u003e Kingdom-come\u003cbr\u003e The Art of Unselfing\u003cbr\u003e Doubt\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eV.\u003cbr\u003e Crania Americana\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702126145816,"sku":"9780803290631","price":14.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cannibal-paperback-softback-9780803290631","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}