Apology A Novel (Milkweed National Fiction Prize) by JonPineda Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-104-7, ISBN: 1-57131-104-1
"When nine-year-old Tom Serafino’s twin sister Teagan suffers a debilitating brain injury, a police investigation implicates his playmate Mario’s unclean immigrant, transient worker known as Shoe. Innocent of the crime but burdened by his own childhood tragedy, Shoe takes the blame for what is in fact an accident caused by his young nephew, ensuring Mario’s chance at a future publicly unscarred.The lines between innocence and guilt, eva ..."
The Translator's Diary(1st Edition) (Green Rose Series) by JonPineda Paperback, 57 Pages, Published 2008 by New Issues Poetry & Prose ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-75-3, ISBN: 1-930974-75-2
"WINNER OF THE 2007 GREEN ROSE PRIZE FOR POETRY "In THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY, where truth 'never survives its translation,' Jon Pineda composes a haunting elegy. His keen attention journeys through absence and presence, fragmentation and loss in memorable, riveting language"--Arthur Sze, winner of the National Book Award "THE TRANSLATOR'S DIARY reminds us that one of poetry's necessary functions is translation--of literal experience and ..."
"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."
Sleep in Me (American Lives) by JonPineda Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4341-5, ISBN: 0-8032-4341-3
"Against the backdrop of his teenage sister’s car accident—in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends—Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica’s sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its appro ..."
Apology A Novel by JonPineda Published 2017 by Audible Studios On Brilliance, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5366-3940-7, ISBN: 1-5366-3940-0
Let'S No One Get Hurt(Reprint) by JonPineda 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-250-31033-0, ISBN: 1-250-31033-4
Little Anodynes Poems (Palmetto Poetry Series) by JonPineda Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-525-7, ISBN: 1-61117-525-9
"WINNER OF THE 2016 LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY 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 th ..."
Let's No One Get Hurt A Novel by JonPineda 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-71769-8, ISBN: 0-374-71769-9
"Myla Goldberg, Rigoberto González, Jim Harrison, Jonathan Haupt, Cathy Park
Hong, Cindy Horne and Barb Toellner, ... Bill Tester, Jon Tribble, Trout Unlimited,
Dan Tucker, R. A. Villanueva, David Wojahn, and my amazing colleagues and ..."
Palmetto Poetry Ser. Little Anodynes : Poems by JonPineda 72 Pages, Published 2015 by Univ Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-526-4, ISBN: 1-61117-526-7
"THE PALMETTO POETRY SERIES NIKKY FINNEY, SERIES EDITOR KWAME
DAWES, FOUNDING EDITOR Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof Carrie Allen
McCray, edited by Kevin Simmonds A Book of Exquisite Disasters Charlene
Monahan Spearen Seeking: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the Art of Jonathan
Green Edited by Kwame Dawes and Marjory Wentworth New and Selected
Poems Marjory Wentworth Little Anodynes: Poems Jon Pineda Little Anodynes
POEMS Jon ..."
"“He must have been so handsome,” Elle would often offer as a prompt, and her
mother would laugh in disbelief and respond, “Yes, yes, oh yes. ... “Oh, Elle, you
should have seen him then,” her mother would say, walking into the room with
freshly folded clothes and setting them ... his children always to that moment of
drifting, the parachute a translucent dome overhead. ... And in her memory, she
could still see the reddish fused fi ..."
Sleep in Me (American Lives) by JonPineda Digital, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-3355-3, ISBN: 0-8032-3355-8
"I'll admit that it was part of the attraction for me, the ocean's hypnotism at work. Farther down the ... I tried to swim out to him, but then a lifeguard coasted past me and grabbed John, pulling him back into a shallow area. It wasn't until I saw John ..."
Sleep in Me (American Lives) by JonPineda Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2535-0, ISBN: 0-8032-2535-0
"Against the backdrop of his teenage sisterâs car accidentin which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friendsJon Pineda chronicles his sister Ricaâs sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its a ..."
Let's No One Get Hurt(1st Edition) A Novel by JonPineda Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-18524-4, ISBN: 0-374-18524-7
"“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 landscape, and he brings it blazingly to life.” ―Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of SpeculationWith the cinematic and terrifying beauty of the American South humming behind each line, Jon Pineda’s Let’s No One Get Hurt is a coming-of-age stor ..."
Birthmark(1st Edition) (Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) by Jon Marcelino Pineda Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2004 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-2570-2, ISBN: 0-8093-2570-5
"WINNER OF THE 2003 CRAB ORCHARD AWARD SERIES IN POETRY OPEN COMPETITIONIn 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 Ta ..."
"Birthmark After they make love, he slides down so his face rests near her waist.
The light by the bed casts its nets that turn into shadows. They both fall asleep.
When he wakes, he finds a small patch of birthmarks on her thigh, runs his finger
..."