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Mexico in My Heart: Selected Poems
W (Ed) Barnstone
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Description for Mexico in My Heart: Selected Poems
Paperback. A homage to Mexico by a four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 40. Weight in Grams: 494.
Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret Reader, and my daily Corn Flakes - ' Mexico in My Heart is the essential Barnstone, drawing on fifteen collections, poetry from six decades of writing and from several continents. He went to Mexico ... Read more
Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret Reader, and my daily Corn Flakes - ' Mexico in My Heart is the essential Barnstone, drawing on fifteen collections, poetry from six decades of writing and from several continents. He went to Mexico ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784100148
SKU
V9781784100148
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About W (Ed) Barnstone
WILLIS BARNSTONE was born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1927. He is a poet, translator, critic and biblical scholar. His many books include The Restored New Testament, a new annotated translation and commentary. Over the course of an eventful life Barnstone has travelled widely, living at different times in Mexico, Greece, France, Argentina and China, as well as the Unites States ... Read more
Reviews for Mexico in My Heart: Selected Poems
I think Barnstone has been appointed a special angel to bring the other to our attention, to show how it is done. He illuminates the spirits for us and he clarifies the unclarifiable... Gerald Stern, acclaimed USpoet