Paul Pines

PAUL PINES grew up in Brooklyn around the corner from Ebbet’s Field and passed the early 60s on the Lower East Side of New York. He shipped out as a Merchant Seaman, spending 65–66 in Vietnam. Pines opened his jazz club, The Tin Palace, in 1973. It became the setting for his novel, The Tin Angel (Morrow, 1983). Redemption (Editions du Rocher, 1997), a second novel, is set against the genocide of Guatemalan Mayans. His memoir, My Brother’s Madness, (Curbstone Press, 2007) explores the unfolding of intertwined lives and the nature of delusion. Pines has published nine books of poetry: Onion, Hotel Madden Poems, Pines Songs, Breath, Adrift on Blinding Light, Taxidancing, Last Call at the Tin Palace, Reflections in a Smoking Mirror, and Divine Madness. Poems set by composer Daniel Asia appear on the Summit label which includes Asia’s 5th Symphony (settings of Pines’ poems and those by Yehuda Amichai), and The Tin Angel Opera based on Pines’ novel. As a translator he has contributed to Small Hours of the Night, Selected Poems of Roque Dalton, (Curbstone, 1996); Pyramids of Glass, (Corona 1995); Nicanor Parra, Antipoems: New and Selected, (New Directions, 1986).High praise for his work includes: The Tin Angel, “Superb” (The Washington Post) “This swift tale of murder and revenge..”, (The New York Times Book Review); My Brother’s Madness, “great writing, no doubt about it” (NPR commentator Andre Codrescu), Hotel Madden Poems, “brilliant and compelling…” (American Book Review); “ Last Call at the Tin Palace (Bob Holman, POETRY PICKS - The Best Books of 2009). Pines lives with his wife, Carol, in Glens Falls, NY, where he practices as a psychotherapist and hosts the Lake George Jazz Weekend.

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