sipèstisyon by Fils-Aimé, McKendy

sipèstisyon

sipèstisyon unflinchingly navigates generational trauma, migration, and spirituality. In this powerful debut, Haitian-American poet Mckendy Fils-Aimé examines...
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Author: McKendy Fils-Aimé
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Language: English
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sipèstisyon by Fils-Aimé, McKendy

sipèstisyon

$25.60

sipèstisyon

$25.60
Author: McKendy Fils-Aimé
Format: Paperback
Language: English

sipèstisyon unflinchingly navigates generational trauma, migration, and spirituality. In this powerful debut, Haitian-American poet Mckendy Fils-Aimé examines wounds left by abuse, familial estrangement, and racial violence. Through the lens of Haitian superstitions, sipèstisyon explores the imperfect and non-linear nature of healing. These poems don't pretend that moving on is as simple as moving on. They know that mending a wound requires understanding its shape and origin and that confrontation is sometimes necessary. In each poem, sipèstisyon asks which is louder: the sound of our ache or the call to forgive?

"Watch me nourish & be nourishment." In sipèstisyon Mckendy Fils-Aimé invites us, to poems that are vivid, clear eyed, and always surprising with the abundance of gifts that's our life: "summer we shoplifted / too many bars from Pathmark," one piece begins as it goes on to give us wisdom that is memory. But this poet also knows, too well, that "sometimes we make art by archiving grief."

-Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic



Author: McKendy Fils-Aimé
Publisher: YesYes Books
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.25h x 5.75w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781946303158

About the Author
Fils-Aimé, McKendy: - MCKENDY FILS-AIMÉ is a New England based Haitian American poet, organizer, and teaching artist. He has received fellowships from Callaloo, Cave Canem, The Watering Hole, CantoMundo, and Periplus. Over the span of nearly two decades, Mckendy has represented New England in several regional and national poetry slams, making numerous semi-final and final stage appearances. Mckendy's work has been featured or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Adroit, Muzzle, Obsidian, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. sipèstisyon (YesYes Books, 2026) is his debut poetry collection.

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