sipèstisyon (YesYes Books), the debut of Haitian-American Mckendy Fils-Aimé navigates trauma and superstition in poems that reach deep into spiritual practices, time-honoured rituals, and the marked generational differences that often arise over oppositional observances of faith. Reframing perspectives of migrant childhood and transitory youth against the uneven road towards healing, sipèstisyon treads the boards of self-doubt and recrimination towards acceptance and internal validation. The speakers of Fils-Aimé’s poems are by turns reflective, nostalgic, and defiant in their attitudes, insistent on authentic navigations towards the selves they most yearn to become.