Pines, Paul

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Pines, Paul
Date of birth
1941-05-23
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 10448092
Wikidata: Q27868156
Library of congress: n 83181507
Sources of Information
  • Copyright Public Catalog, database, 15 Jun. 2009(Marilyn Kennedy; joint pseud. for Lynn April Barber and Paul Pines)
  • His Hotel Madden poems, 1991:CIP t.p. (Paul Pines) data sheet (b. 05-23-41)
  • His The tin angel, 1983:t.p. (Paul Pines)
  • LC data base, 8/26/83(hdg.: Pines, Paul)
  • New Orleans Variations & Paris Ouroboros, [2013]:t.p. (Paul Pines) cover (poems)
  • Trolling with the Fisher King, 2017:ECIP title page (Paul Pines)
  • Wikipedia, 06-08-2018(Paul Pines; opened The Tin Palace, his Bowery jazz club, in the '70s. It became the setting for his novel The Tin Angel (Morrow, 1983). A second novel, Redemption, (Editions du Rocher, 1997), explores the Guatemalan Mayan genocide of the '80s. My Brother's Madness, (Curbstone Press, 2007) probes the nature of delusion. He has published 13 collections of poetry, most recently Divine Madness (Marsh Hawk, 2012), Fishing On The Pole Star (Dos Madres, 2014) Message From The Memoirist (Dos Madres, 2015) and Charlotte Songs (Marsh Hawk, 2016). He is the editor of Juan Gelman's selected poems Dark Times/ Filled with Light (Open Letters Press, 2012) and has contributed translations to Small Hours of the Night, Selected Poems of Roque Dalton; and Nicanor Parra, Antipoems: New and Selected. Composer Daniel Asia's settings of Pines' poems appear on Songs from the Page of Swords, Breath in a Ram's Horn and, Purer Than Purest Pure (BBC Singers) on the Summit label. Asia's 5th Symphony, recorded by the Pilsen SO, features poems by Pines and Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. The Tin Angel Opera, was performed by the Center for Contemporary Opera in NYC. Pines has conducted workshops for the National Writers Voice and lectured for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Ossabaw Foundation, and Virginia Center, as well as a recipient of an Artists' Fellowship, N.Y.S. Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Glens Falls, New York, where he is a psychotherapist in private practice and hosts the Lake George Jazz Weekend)
  • Songs from the page of swords, 2000. [sound recording]

Wikipedia description:

Paul Pines was a poet, writer and psychotherapist. Also known for founding and programming Jazz at the Lake: the Lake George Jazz Weekend, Pines started the acclaimed The Tin Palace jazz nightclub on New York's Bowery in the East Village.

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