Description:
An award-winning poet chronicles loss, family, and identity
Brief description: Jon Pineda was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. The recipient of a Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Pineda is the author of the novel Apology, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the memoir Sleep in Me, a Barnes & Noble �Discover Great New Writers� selection and a top memoir of 2010 by Library Journal. His poetry collections are The Translator�s Diary, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose, and Birthmark, selected by Ralph Burns as winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series open competition. An earlier version of Little Anodynes was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Pineda
Review Quotes:
In the foreword, Oliver de la Paz calls the poems breathless ribbons of prose verse - and it's true, the way all these poems seem to be contained within one breath, narrow and taut, but what's also true is the way each of them renders you breathless with their acute knowledge of both pain and joy, suffering and salve. They knock the wind out of you, with the precision of each line, muted and raw, landing like the punch that will win the match.
-- "Fjords Review"