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Mexico in My Heart

Selected Poems
  • ISBN-13: 9781784100148
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Willis Barnstone
  • Price: AUD $37.99
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  • Local release date: 20/10/2015
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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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 Whitmans Leaves, Melvilles Whale, the sonnets of Barnstones 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 at the age of fifteen and, gathering languages and literatures, has never stopped learning.
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 and Britain. He is a fourtimes Pulitzer Prize nominee.
"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"
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