Safiya Sinclair : Cannibal




Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry show

Summary: “Sinclair crafts her stunning debut collection around the beauty & brutality of the word cannibal, whose origins derive from Columbus’s belief that the Carib people consumed human flesh. Attacking this dehumanizing judgment born from white entitlement & denouncing the idea that blackness is synonymous with savagery, Sinclair ponders such questions as, How does a poet […]