Safiya Sinclair : Cannibal

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Recorded10 Sep 2017

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“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 […] The post Safiya Sinclair : Cannibal appeared first on Tin House.

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