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Just an idle query, if anyone has ever read/owns a book of poems called Cannibal by Safiyah Sinclair? One of my personal favourite poetry books. I love the way she transforms ugly racist tropes, hackneyed notions about femininity, and even her own most primal anxieties and fears into powerful monstrous metaphors and characteristics. I can't help but envision her words as a descriptions of matriarchal chimeric beasts, as ferocious and unpredictable as they are searingly intelligent and knowing alluring.
I honestly couldn't recommend this book enough if you are sick to death of bad writing about women. This is less of a collection of indulgent and tearful elegies (despite the unmistakable note of melancholy running throughout all this) and more of a bestiary of creatures stitched together from myriad injustices and inequalities.
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