We report results on semileptonic B ---> pilepton anti-neutrino decay form factors near qmax[2] using NRQCD heavy quark and clover light quark actions and currents improved through O(αa). An inconsistency with the soft pion relation f[0] (qmax[2] = fB / fπ found in a previous work is confirmed, and a possible solution with nonperturbative renormalization is discussed. We find that f+(q[2]) is well described by the B* pole near qmax[2], and its 1/MB scaling is also consistent with the prediction of the pole dominance model.