In Jon Pineda’s debut collection Birthmark, loss takes the shape of a scar, memory the shape of a childhood, and identity the shape of a birthmark on a lover’s thigh. Like water taking the form of its
Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize. "In THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY, where truth 'never survives its translation,' Jon Pineda composes a haunting elegy. His keen attention journeys through ab
Huck Finn meets We the Animals in this dreamy yet urgent Southern Gothic taleFifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other
“An inventive and powerful coming of age story about the search for community and all the ways our ties to one another come undone. Jon Pineda has a poet’s eye for the details of this vivid, haunting
To ensure that his young nephew Mario has a chance at a future publicly unscarred, Shoe, a transient worker, takes the blame for an accident Mario caused that left a 9-year-old girl with a debilitatin
The third collection by the prize-winning Asian American poet Jon Pineda, Little Anodynes is a sequence of lyrical, personal narratives that continue Pineda's exploration of his biracial identity, the
