Unbroken Nostalgia

Haitian Kreyl Poetry in Cuba

An original English translation and scholarly edition of Haitian Cuban poet Hilario Batista Flix’s poems, Unbroken Nostalgia helps to expand the corpus of diasporic Haitian literature and contributes to an emerging Caribbean counter-canon.

Unbroken Nostalgia: Haitian Kreyl Poetry in Cuba is the first English translation and scholarly edition of the collection Nostalji san pwen ni vigil: pwezi kreyl nan peyi Kiba (2016) by Hilario Batista Flix. A poet, journalist, and language activist, Batista (1955 ) embodies and expresses Cubas cultural and linguistic diversity as a descendant of Haitian migrant workers to Eastern Cuba during the mid-twentieth century; his poems bridge regions usually separated by languagethe Spanish and Creolophone/Francophone Caribbeanand vividly depict the distinct heritage of Haitian Cubans and their shared dreams and challenges. A scholarly introduction by tran