Safiya Sinclair brings the vibrant landscape and complex history of Jamaica to her poetry. Her work often explores themes of identity, displacement, and the power of language to reclaim narratives. Sinclair's distinctive voice is characterized by its lyrical intensity and profound emotional resonance, inviting readers into a deeply personal yet universally relevant world.
This stunning story of the author's struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia led to violence shows how found her own power and provides a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we know little about.
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.