Description |
x, 111 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Prairie schooner book prize in poetry |
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Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [110]-111) |
Summary |
"Colliding with and confrontingThe 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, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Framed by "The Tempest" and calling on historical, cultural, and biological sources, "Cannibal" is a provocative poetic exploration of the female body, identity, and race"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Women -- Identity -- Poetry.
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Human body -- Poetry.
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Human body. (OCoLC)fst01730057
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Women -- Identity.
(OCoLC)fst01176807
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Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Subject |
POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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ISBN |
9780803290631 (paperback : alk. paper) |
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0803290632 (paperback : alk. paper) |
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9780803295377 (mobi) |
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9780803295384 (pdf) |
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0803295383 (pdf) |
Standard No. |
40026256991 |
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