When My Body Was A Clinched Fist
When My Body Was A Clinched Fist, by Enzo Silon Surin (2020)
Winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Award
WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST is a book that addresses the effects of social violence on a young boy’s mind and the consequent physical toll it takes on his body. At the heart of the collection is the metamorphosis of trauma from different acts of violence, some witnessed firsthand, and the struggle to make sense of the world in its aftermath. Set in the borough of Queens, New York, each poem is unrelenting in its depiction of the body as a fist and a young boy’s decade-long clinch for survival.
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Cover Image "When I Ruled the World" by Carlos Rancaño
