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At a time when economic inequality is on all of our minds, this
collection of nonfiction and poetry from accomplished American
writers focuses on intimate moments, personal relationships, and
common daily experiences at the intersection of people of different
economic status.
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 the reader's
life that serve as opportunities for discovery and healing. Pineda
deftly uses shortened lines and natural pauses to create momentum,
which allows the poems to play out in a manner evocative of fine
cinema, as if someone had left a projector running and these
narratives were flickering and blending endlessly in an experience
shared by the viewer, the storyteller, and the story itself.
"Furious Lullaby" is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body
in the twenty-first century. The collection, which examines the
larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of
blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems
culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn. The lovers
suffer a metaphysical crisis, seeking to know what is good, what is
evil, and how to truly know the difference. Knowing, however,
invites the terrible into their world. The Devil, a seductive
trickster, haunts the landscape as a voice who dares each
inquisitor to learn about mortality, morality, the beautiful, and
the unspeakable through direct experience. "Furious Lullaby" offers
a departure from the lighter prose poetry of de la Paz's "Names
above Houses" and preserves the author's concern with the nature of
human grace.
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