Birthmark: Poems by Jon Pineda HISTORY

Birthmark: Poems by Jon Pineda HISTORYIn Jon Pinedas 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 lovers thigh. Like water taking the form of its container, Pinedas poems swell to fill the lines of his experiences. Against the backdrop of Tidewater, Virginias crabs and cicadas, Pineda invokes his mestizothe Tagalog word for being half Filipinochildhood, weaving laments for a tenuous paternal

ageing parents

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Lives by Cyril Dabydeen

" Others settle in another as permanent residents

Helen Madamba experienced terrifying circumstances at a young age

Felipe was back in his hometown

"Perhaps the single most important monograph to have appeared in modern Philippine history

ISBN-10: 971272246-5

honest and unflinching voices

a fine collection indeed

which received the Kathryn A

Ten years later