A compelling book that leaves a giant sized lump in the throat … A vivid portrait of Basquiat, powerfully evoking his inventiveness as an artist” A runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. From 2009 to 2012, Clement was president of PEN Mexico and her work focused on the disappearance and killing of journalists. Human rights issues have motivated her writing. In 2014 she was awarded the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for her novel Prayers for the Stolen that involved over ten years of research on the stealing of young girls in Mexico. No…life is not all about rainbows, fairy dust, and unicorns…But honestly I’m not sure what the message in this book was suppose to be…Other than to remind us that Suzanne Mallouk was part of Jean’s life. She is a member of Mexico's prestigious Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. Jennifer Clement, along with her sister Barbara Sibley, is the founder and director The San Miguel Poetry Week. [11]

It was clear that his sexual interest was not monochromatic. It did not rely on visual stimulation, such as a pretty girl. It was a very rich multi chromatic sexuality. He was attracted to people for all different reasons. They could be boys, girls, thin, fat, pretty, ugly. It was, I think, driven by intelligence. He was attracted to intelligence more than anything and to pain. He was very attracted to people who silently bore some sort of inner pain as he did, and he loved people who were one of a kind, people who had a unique vision of things. Clement is the author four novels Gun Love, Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies and The Poison That Fascinates. She also wrote the acclaimed memoir Widow Basquiat (on the painter Jean Michel Basquiat and New York City in the early 1980s). Clement is also the author of several books of poetry: The Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin); Newton’s Sailor; Lady of the Broom and Jennifer Clement: New and Selected Poems. Her prize-winning story, “A Salamander-Child” is published as an art book with work by the Mexican painter Gustavo Monroy. Clement’s books have been translated into 24 languages. Born in 1960 in Greenwich, Connecticut, Clement moved in 1961 with her family to Mexico City, where she later attended Edron Academy. She moved to the United States to finish high school at Cranbrook Kingswood School, before studying English Literature and Anthropology at New York University. She received her MFA from the University of Southern Maine. [3] Magical…. Widow Basquiat conjuresreal characters, a real time and real place. It’s not theory – it’s representation. … The life of Basquiat … is a joyous lightning bolt when it is described in true detail, as it is in Clement’s extraordinary as-told-to poem.”— Glenn O’Brien, Artforum

Hamilton, Geoff; Jones, Brian (2009). "Clement, Jennifer p.68". Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438129709 . Retrieved 7 April 2011. Content Catnip is a quirky internet wunderkammer written by an Intergalactic Space Māori named Content Catnip. Join me as I meander through the quirky and curious aspects of history, indigenous spirituality, the natural world, animals, art, storytelling, books, philosophy, travel, Māori culture and loads more.

Growing up in Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo’s house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world.Dul Bayan Basquiat, ressam Basquiat’nın Suzanne Mallouk ile sorunlu birlikteliği özelinde hayatını anlatıyor. Bir aşk hikayesi mi bu? Sanmıyorum. Gia Carangi’nin yaşamını izlerken de benzer duygulara bürünmüştüm. Gelgitli-parçalayıcı-birbirinden sürekli bir şeyler eksilten ikili ilişkiler düğümü demek daha doğru belki de. The Canongate Prize for New Writing 2001, UK (judged by The Herald, The Sunday Herald, Waterstone's, Channel Four, BBC, and Canongate Books) Basquiat’nın eserlerindeki zekayı inceleme için (ırkçılığa uğrama korkusu ve bağımlı yaşama çekilmenin etkileri gibi) bir merak uyandırıyor kitabın yazarı Jennifer Clement. Hatta sonrasında Mallouk’un ne yaptığını da araştırırken bulabilirsiniz kendinizi, sonu 27 yaşında ölen Basquiat gibi mi oldu yoksa diye.. Onun dışında yer yer sinirlerimin gerildiği yer yer duygulandığım bir kitap oldu bu. Mallouk is a psychiatric consultant to media, film, television museums, documentaries, authors, etc. She combines this expertise with her knowledge and first hand experience of the life and work of Basquiat and of the 1980s creative community of the East Village of New York City. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, The Canongate Prize, Sara Curry Humanitarian Award, Guggenheim Fellowship The content is disturbing. Suzanne’s abusive father set the stage for her abusive lover. Her life with Basquiat is a story of physical and emotional abuse. She recounts this without anger or rancor. One of many examples is that the PID he gave her left her unable to have children - for which she is glad she never told him since it would make him sad. She obviously has had some good therapy to come out on the other side of this and everything else she endured Robert Hughes continues…. “the Whitney Museum’s … and the number of its financial supporters who have been left holding Basquiat’s whose price needs to be sustained by that “proper retrospective.” Then the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles could do it toobecause its trustees own lots of Basquiat’s as well. This is known as Postmodernist Museum Ethics. It’s how art history gets made, bub.”A mesmerising portrayal of New York City’s art scene in the early 80s and one its luminaries: Jean-Michel Basquiat seen through the eyes of his partner Suzanne Mallouk.