ablueboxfullofbooks, How to Say Babylon is Sinclair’s reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, it is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, but one we know little about.
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