When My Body Was a Clinched Fist by Surin, Enzo Silon
When My Body Was a Clinched Fist by Surin, Enzo Silon

When My Body Was a Clinched Fist

"Back in the day when KRS-One intoned-The Bridge is over!-he did not prefigure a poet from Queens...
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Author: Enzo Silon Surin
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Language: English
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When My Body Was a Clinched Fist by Surin, Enzo Silon

When My Body Was a Clinched Fist

$203.51
When My Body Was a Clinched Fist by Surin, Enzo Silon

When My Body Was a Clinched Fist

$203.51
Author: Enzo Silon Surin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Back in the day when KRS-One intoned-The Bridge is over!-he did not prefigure a poet from Queens of the fierce attitude and intellectual magnitude of Enzo Silon Surin. WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST gives the Heisman to such a refrain with lyrical power-packing poetics that settles the score with a succinct-Not! No the Bridge is not over, for Surin's Queens is alive and well and under the gaze of a master observer who eulogizes lives that though at times are battered have always mattered. Enzo Silon Surin's poems get you caught up in the deeply personal experiences of growing and visceral all-encompassing knowing from an acute witness of every breath and follicle of Black life from palm trees, sand and sea to street corner projects, suburban houses and fistfuls of black water. Surin writes about the confused and disconnected, trigger happy wannabes trapped by outdated notions of masculinity, the cracked head crackheads all held in the clutch of society's clinched fist through which the trauma that comes with being of color, addicted, broke, lost and tossed, is itself a clinched fist of black bodies caught in the Russian nesting doll America's clinched fists make. WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST is an elegy for 'the premature exits.' It is a blues for the black-on-black black and blue. Surin yields his pen like a microscopic scalpel whereby an autopsy of possibility is performed to un-clinch the remarkable bone gristle poetry in these unflinching heart-wrenching pages."

-Tony Medina



Author: Enzo Silon Surin
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
Published: 07/15/2020
Pages: 70
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781625578174

About the Author
Surin, Enzo Silon: - Enzo Silon Surin, Haitian-born poet, educator, speaker, publisher and social advocate, is the author of two chapbooks, A Letter of Resignation: An American Libretto (2017) and Higher Ground. He is the recipient of a Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation and is a PEN New England Celebrated New Voice in Poetry. Surin's work gives voice to experiences that take place in what he calls broken spaces and his poems have appeared in numerous publications including Crab Orchard Review, Origins, Transition Magazine/Jalada, Interviewing the Caribbean, jubilat, Soundings East, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, and sx salon. Surin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and is currently Professor of English at Bunker Hill Community College and founding editor and publisher at Central Square Press. His debut full-length poetry collection is WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST (Black Lawrence Press, 2020).
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