{"product_id":"cannibal-1","title":"Cannibal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present moment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2021 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003emost anticipated book for 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Safiya Sinclair bursts onto the shelves with this richly powerful debut collection'' – \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColliding with and confronting Shakespeare''s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair''s \u003ci\u003eCannibal \u003c\/i\u003ebeautifully evoke the poet''s Jamaican childhood and reach beyond to explore 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke. \u003ci\u003eCannibal\u003c\/i\u003e marks the arrival of a thrilling and essential lyrical voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Cannibal \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.'' – Major Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57417641099646,"sku":"NW9781529030235","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529030235.jpg?v=1778826762","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/cannibal-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}