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 eight volumes of poetry: Onion, Hotel Madden Poems, Pines Songs,Breath, Adrift on Blinding Light, Taxidancing, Last Call at The Tin Palace and Reflections in a Smoking Mirror—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).
"...in Last Call at the Tin Palace, poems that are stories that are jazz that are memories that are everlasting imprints of music on retinas and the truth from the other side of the bar." Bob Holman, POETRY PICKS - The Best Books of 2009
"The 5th Symphony with settings of Paul Pines' poems was performed by the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in Nov., 2008. Asia's adventurous Fifth gets rousing premiere in Oro Valley. The 37-minute symphony, conducted by George Hanson, is at times sublimely accessible, with interludes of lush melodic string passages." Cathalena E. Burch, Arizona Daily Star
You can also check out Paul Pines' daughter Charlotte, actor - singer - dancer, by going to her web site, <click here>
