About the Author
Paul Pines grew up in Brooklyn around the corner from Ebbets Field and passed the early sixties on the Lower East Side of New York. He shipped out as a merchant seaman, spending 1965-66 in Vietnam, after which he drove a taxi and tended bar until he opened The Tin Palace in 1970, the setting for his novel, The Tin Angel (Wm Morrow, 1983). Redemption (Editions du Rocher, 1997), a second novel, is set against the genocide of Guatemalan Mayans. My Brother’s Madness(Curbstone, 2007) a memoir, has recently enjoyed wide critical acclaim.
Pines has also published seven volumes of poetry: Onion, Hotel Madden Poems, Pines Songs,Breath, Adrift on Blinding Light, Taxidancing and the forthcoming Last Call at The Tin Palace—selections set by composer Daniel Asia appear on the Summit label. He has translated and published poems by Nicanor Para and Roque Dalton, and edited a Tribute to Argentine poet Juan Gelman in the summer issue of The Cafe Review (2009).
Paul Pines lives in Glens Falls, NewYork, where he practices as a psychotherapist and hosts the Lake George Jazz Weekend. High praise for Pines’s work include: The Tin Angel, “Superb”(The Washington Post); My Brother’s Madness, “great writing, no doubt about it”(NPR commentator Andre Codrescu); Hotel Madden Poems, “brilliant and compelling…” (American Book Review); Breath, “…instantaneous travel along our internal galaxies” (American Book Review); and Adrift on Blinding Light, “[that]navigates the conscious and subconscious worlds with fluid, imaginative, and fascinating energy” (Multicultural Review).
