In Uprooted: A Journey in Poems, Nadine Pinede offers a meditation on resilience and renewal. Born in Paris to Haitian exiles from the Duvalier dictatorship and living with an invisible disability, she traces a journey through migration, memory, and transformation. Paired with stunning photographs that echo and deepen the poems’ meditations, this collection shows how what is uprooted can still take root and bloom again in unexpected ground.

“In these carefully crafted poems, a life, with all its pain and rapture, unfurls. Pinede’s voice is intimate and confiding, as she crosses borders both tangible and interior, with the natural world mirroring the self. Through the cumulative power of this poetic passage, artfully planted seeds spring into hope.”

— Suzanne A. Solomon

“I loved the intention and the passion of these understated poems, a passion kept in check by the poet’s sense of irony. This is a life-changing, heart-rending collection by a fine poet with a deft touch.”

— Rosalind Brackenbury, author of Invisible Horses

Praise for When the Mapou Sings:

“A stunning revelation, an exquisite novel in verse, it is also a mesmerizing history lesson, a praise song, a love letter to Haiti, Lucille, Zora Neale Hurston, and the cultural and historical ties that bind Haitians and African American icons, dreamers, and creators.”

— Edwidge Danticat, author of We’re Alone

Nadine Pinede was born in Paris, grew up among the maple trees of Canada and Connecticut, and has always stayed rooted in the culture of Haiti, her parents’ homeland. A Harvard and Oxford graduate, she was the first Rhodes Scholar of Haitian descent. She has collaborated with climate and human rights activists in Haiti and Latin America, including the first Haitian winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Living with the hidden challenges of Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, near the resilient Sonian Forest, she is discovering how the unseen, whether in bodies or the natural world, can hold remarkable strength.

She is the author of When the Mapou Sings, An Invisible Geography, and fiction in Haiti Noir, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Her forthcoming anthology, Earth is a Living Thing, gathers Black poetry that brings untold stories to light and imagines new ways of befriending the natural world.

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