Literature
Safiya Sinclair
Translated from English by Adalber Salas Hernández
Caníbal
Cannibal
Caníbal está repleto de poemas cuya imaginería extraña y poderosa nunca deja de asombrar. Los poemas de Sinclair guardan para nosotros una experiencia que suele reservarse para el encuentro con un cuerpo que respira y suda. Textos carnales que esbozan una presencia, una figura que es tocada al ser leída. Somos interpelados por ellos, no para ser complacidos, sino sacudidos. No para distraernos, sino para ser halados del modo más físico. Al acercarse a Caníbal, el lector se enfrenta con la creatividad pura de la lengua y su capacidad indomable para producir nuevas formas.
Safiya Sinclair (Montego Bay, Jamaica) es doctora en Literatura y Escritura Creativa por la University of Southern California, actualmente es Profesora Asociada de Escritura Creativa en la Arizona State University. Autora del volumen de poesía Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), ganador del Premio para Escritores Whiting, el Premio Metcalf de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras, el Premio OCM Bocas de Literatura Caribeña, el Premio Phillis Wheatley, el Premio de Poesía Prairie Schooner y el Premio Pushcart. Ha recibido la beca Ruth Lilly y Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg de la Poetry Foundation, así como de la Fundación Civitella Ranieri, entre otras.
Cannibal is filled with poems whose strange and powerful imagery never ceases to amaze. Sinclair’s poems hold in store an experience often reserved for the encounter with the corporeal, with a breathing, beating body. These are fleshly texts, whose lines sketch a presence, a figure that is touched as much as it is read. We are addressed by them, not to be pleased but shaken. Not to be distracted but pulled in, in the most physical way possible. In approaching Cannibal, the reader is confronted with the sheer creativity of language, its indomitable capacity to generate new forms.
Safiya Sinclair (Montego Bay, Jamaica) holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She's the author of the poetry collection Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Sinclair has also been awarded the Pushcart Prize, along with fellowships Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and the fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, among others.