Catacombs

Catacombs

by Safiya Sinclair

Essay & Poetry/ $15



This remarkable perfect-bound chapbook showcases the talents of a major emerging writer in both poetry and prose.

Sinclair’s is an arresting new voice that makes us sit up and re-think.  Her mythopoeic imagination thrives on startling metaphors and combinations of images.  Eschewing the naturalistic and consolatory, the poetry is alive in disturbing implosions of consciousness, drawn to cataclysm and apocalypse, whether in personal or communal histories. —Eddie Baugh

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“With lush, vivid descriptions and a narrative haunted by figments of the seen and unseen, Safiya Sinclair’s remarkable collection, Catacombs gives shape and voice to a part of the Caribbean that has never before been rendered into verse.”  —Mark Wunderlich

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Safiya Sinclair has published poems in the Caribbean publications The Jamaica Observer Literary Arts Magazine, Bearing Witness 2003: A Collection of the Year’s Best Fiction and Poetry and the international anthology Kunapipi: A Journal of Post-Colonial Literature. Sinclair, a graduate of Bennington College, was the former Editor-in-chief of the College’s online anthology, plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing. She currently lives in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Posted by Elizabeth Clark Wessel, September 8th, 2015.