American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America\'s neglectful relationship with its own history.
African & African American Studies..
Family & Relationships.
Heightening the reader\'s experience with a surgically precise interrogation of form in poems like American Lexicon, Prelude, and American Witness, Enzo Silon Surin writes against our fears and shines bright the hope we dare have for our sons.-Frank X Walker Poetry.
Wrapped masterfully in poetry\'s artful tongue, they do not seek absolution nor do they apologize as the collection indicts American racism and its bloated, systemic injustices.
How does one locate themselves in this American landscape? American Scapegoat is a remarkable testament to the power of language, marked with intensity, radiance, and hope.-January Gill O\'Neil The poems in American Scapegoat are not for the faint of heart.
These poems examine the hard edges and paradoxes as a way of illuminating them as he grapples with violence, injustice, masculinity, intimacy, and fatherhood.
Through his own distinctive path, Enzo Silon Surin bears witness to the complexities of the Black experience in America.
And it always comes back to having to answer questions for which my body is never prepared.
In America, choice\'s always an illusion.
This timely collection looks both to the past and the future, and fosters a deeply essential conversation about what it means to be Black and American in a democracy at war with itself and its humanity.
This extremely damaging narrative has been prominently embedded within the socio-political framework of American culture and continues to play an inescapably significant role in the Black experience in America.
At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper context is the fraudulent and fraught mythology that Black people are what America needs to be protected from.
American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America\'s neglectful relationship with its own history
