Birthmark / Jon Pineda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pineda, Jon, 1971-

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Series

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Filipino Americans--Poetry.

Filipino Americans.

Virginia--Poetry.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (76 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 container, Pineda's poems swell to fill the lines of his experiences.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Half

Matamis

Wrestling

Memory in the Shape of a Swimming Lesson

Visitation, or How a Son Came to Resemble the Archangel

Arboretum

The Metaphor of Sunlight Can Be Carried in a Bucket

A Shadow of Gulls

The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South

Willoughby Spit

2. Door That Always Opens

Between Rounds

Memory in the Shape of a House Made of Doors

Shelter

Black Sea Bass

Birthmark

3. Inevitable Distance

Miscarriage

Five about Flowers

Corolla

Hunger

A Few Words on Rome, or The Neighbor Who Never Waves

Weight

Bonfire

Night Feeding

4. Undoing

Living Together

In Strange Circles

Translation

In the Romance of Grief

This Poetry

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Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8093-8861-8

1-299-05060-3

OCLC:

607285715