Birthmark
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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. Against the backdrop of Tidewater, Virginia's crabs and cicadas, Pineda invokes his mestizo-- the Tagalog word for being half Filipino--childhood, weaving laments for a tenuous paternal...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809325705
ISBN13:9780809325702
Release Date:March 2004
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Length:80 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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