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Informationen zum Autor Jon Pineda was born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA. 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 teaches at Queens University of Charlotte, USA and at the University of Mary Washington, USA. Klappentext 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 haunting loss of his sister, and the joys - and fears - of fatherhood. With its title inspired by Emily Dickinson, Little Anodynes offers its poems as “respites,” as breaks in the reader’s life that serve as opportunities for discovery and healing. Pineda deftly uses shortened lines and natural pauses to create momentum, which allows the poems to play out in a manner evocative of fine cinema, as if someone had left a projector running and these narratives were flickering and blending endlessly in an experience shared by the viewer, the storyteller, and the story itself. Zusammenfassung 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 haunting loss of his sister, and the joys - and fears - of fatherhood.
About the author
Jon Pineda was born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA and raised in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA. 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 teaches at Queens University of Charlotte, USA and at the University of Mary Washington, USA.
