In this debut chapbook, Nadine Pinede traverses her own geographies of hope—from the glamour and grit of a Paris sidewalk that frames her parents first meeting- to the scarlet plumes of the Bastille Day parades of her birth- to the turbulentMoreIn this debut chapbook, Nadine Pinede traverses her own geographies of hope—from the glamour and grit of a Paris sidewalk that frames her parents first meeting- to the scarlet plumes of the Bastille Day parades of her birth- to the turbulent historical wealth and mortal devastation of her native Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
Richly imaged and evocative, these are poems whose darkness is tempered with light. These are poems of a global citizen, who empathizes with the plight and struggle of her fellow beings, claims her identity and the integrity of her origins, and finds strength in all of our broken places.--Carolyne Wright, Blue Lynx Prize, American Book Award- author Seasons of Mangoes & Brainfir