How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair

A Jamaican girlhood ruled by her father's doctrine, and poetry as the only available exit.

Safiya Sinclair grew up in Jamaica under a father whose strict Rastafarian rule governed what she could wear, read, say and become. This memoir is her account of that household and of poetry as the route out of it, written by someone who was a poet first.

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