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Product Description: One of the great collections of love poems the world has known, The Song of Songs, which appears in the Old Testament, has, over the years, been the focus of much speculation. Who could have written these incredibly sexual lyrical poems...read more

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9781931243056 | Green Integer Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: One of the great collections of love poems the world has known, The Song of Songs, which appears in the Old Testament, has, over the years, been the focus of much speculation.

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Informed by original Semitic sources, a new literary translation of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and of Revelation reexamines Christianity in terms of its Judaic roots, offering new perspective on the Bible and its teachings. 15,000 first printing.

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9781573221825 | Riverhead Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Informed by original Semitic sources, a new literary translation of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and of Revelation reexamines Christianity in terms of its Judaic roots, offering new perspective on the Bible and its teachings.

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Product Description: St John of Patmos is accredited with writing The Apocalypse, a revelation by angels that God will intervene decisively and reward his long-suffering elect. Here, it is rendered in blank verse, reflecting its original poetic form.
By Willis Barnstone (editor)

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9780811214469 | New Directions, October 1, 2000, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: St John of Patmos is accredited with writing The Apocalypse, a revelation by angels that God will intervene decisively and reward his long-suffering elect.

Product Description: This book is a translation of Salinas's Seguro azar. It includes fifty poems, most of them one or two pages in length, with the Spanish and English texts on facing pages. There is also a prologue by the poet, and introduction by the translator, and a reminiscence by Salinas's friend and fellow poet, Willis Barnstone...read more
By Willis Barnstone (contributor), David Lee Garrison (trans), David Leach (illustrator) and Pedro Salinas

Hardcover:

9781611481259, titled "Certain Chance: Poems of Pedro Salinas" | Bilingual edition (Bucknell Univ Pr, August 1, 2000), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book is a translation of Salinas's Seguro azar.

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Product Description: "This fresh and poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years combines spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes, citations from poetry, and literary analysis. Willis Barnstone, a leading translator of Borges's poems and a privileged friend for more than twenty years, presents the poet-storyteller as a figure of paradox and contradictions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780252018886 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This fresh and poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years combines spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes, citations from poetry, and literary analysis.

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9780252068638 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, November 5, 1999), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "This fresh and poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years combines spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes, citations from poetry, and literary analysis.

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Product Description: This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line. The wondrous Mary Barnard translation was based, unfortunately, on the 1928 Loeb edition by J...read more
By Willis Barnstone (trans) and Sappho

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9781892295132 | Green Integer Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This edition reintroduces Sappho to the modern reader, providing a vivid, contemporary translation, which captures the spareness and the intensity of Sappho's line.

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Presents excerpts of works, biographical profiles of authors, bibliographies, and annotations explaining obscure references in the texts (view table of contents)
By Tony Barnstone (editor) and Willis Barnstone (editor)

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9780023060656 | Prentice Hall, April 1, 1999, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Presents excerpts of works, biographical profiles of authors, bibliographies, and annotations explaining obscure references in the texts

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Product Description: Poetry.

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9781878818607 | Sheep Meadow Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Works by nine mystical and spiritual poets, written over the span of three thousand years, are reverently translated so that readers can enjoy some of the world's most inspiring literature. Original. (view table of contents)
By Willis Barnstone (trans)

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9780811213967 | New Directions, February 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Works by nine mystical and spiritual poets, written over the span of three thousand years, are translated so readers can enjoy some of the world's most inspiring literature

Presents excerpts of works, biographical profiles of authors, bibliographies, and annotations explaining obscure references in the texts

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9780023060649 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Presents excerpts of works, biographical profiles of authors, bibliographies, and annotations explaining obscure references in the texts

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Product Description: translated from the Ancient Greek by Barnstone
By Willis Barnstone (trans)

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9781557133588 | Sun & Moon Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: translated from the Ancient Greek by Barnstone

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Product Description: With poems selected and translated by one of the preeminent translators of our day, this bilingual collection of 112 sonnets by six Spanish-language masters of the form ranges in time from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and includes the works of poets from Spanish America as well as poets native to Spain...read more
By Willis Barnstone (trans)

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9780809321278 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: With poems selected and translated by one of the preeminent translators of our day, this bilingual collection of 112 sonnets by six Spanish-language masters of the form ranges in time from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and includes the works of poets from Spanish America as well as poets native to Spain.

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Product Description: Willis Barnstone offers an amazing sonnet sequence on his double life -- and distinguished career -- as a scholar and an artist.

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9780874516609 | Univ Pr of New England, January 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Willis Barnstone offers an amazing sonnet sequence on his double life -- and distinguished career -- as a scholar and an artist.

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Product Description: In a lucid, pioneering volume, Willis Barnstone explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, he emphasizes that imaginative originality resides as much in the translation as in the source text—a view that skews conventional ideas of artistic primacy...read more

Hardcover:

9780300051896 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780300063004 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: In a lucid, pioneering volume, Willis Barnstone explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form.

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Product Description: In a writing style that may offer a glimpse of the tapestries woven on the looms of Athena and Arachne, Willis Barnstone presents a seamless tale of the first years of his life that moves as naturally from prose to poetry and back as day moves to night...read more

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9780809318834 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: In a writing style that may offer a glimpse of the tapestries woven on the looms of Athena and Arachne, Willis Barnstone presents a seamless tale of the first years of his life that moves as naturally from prose to poetry and back as day moves to night.

Paperback:

9780809318841 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In a writing style that may offer a glimpse of the tapestries woven on the looms of Athena and Arachne, Willis Barnstone presents a seamless tale of the first years of his life that moves as naturally from prose to poetry and back as day moves to night.

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Product Description: University Press of New England Hardcover 1993 2A

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9780874516296 | Univ Pr of New England, September 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: University Press of New England Hardcover 1993 2A

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Product Description: With poems selected and translated by one of the preeminent translators of our day, this bilingual collection of 112 sonnets by six Spanish-language masters of the form ranges in time from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and includes the works of poets from Spanish America as well as poets native to Spain...read more

Hardcover:

9780809317721 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: With poems selected and translated by one of the preeminent translators of our day, this bilingual collection of 112 sonnets by six Spanish-language masters of the form ranges in time from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries and includes the works of poets from Spanish America as well as poets native to Spain.

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A selection of poems by an eighth-century Chinese poet includes extensive notes on the life of the poet and his style of writing

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9780874515633 | Univ Pr of New England, January 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A selection of poems by an eighth-century Chinese poet includes extensive notes on the life of the poet and his style of writing

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Gathers poems from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods
By Willis Barnstone (trans)

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9780805208313 | Subsequent edition (Random House Inc, December 1, 1988), cover price $18.15 | About this edition: Gathers poems from the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods

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Product Description: poems written in China 1984 by the translator/poet

Hardcover:

9780935296662 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: poems written in China 1984 by the translator/poet

Paperback:

9780935296679 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 1987, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: poems written in China 1984 by the translator/poet

Presents the ancient texts excluded from the official canon of the Bible and provides extensive introductions to all major writings
By Willis Barnstone (editor)

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9780062500304 | Harper San Francisco, April 1, 1984, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Presents the ancient texts excluded from the official canon of the Bible and provides extensive introductions to all major writings

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Paperback:

9780841908499 | Holmes & Meier Pub, June 1, 1983, cover price $17.50

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Product Description: Book by Barnstone, Willis, Garrison, David, Aleixandre, Vicente

Hardcover:

9780821406618 | Ohio Univ Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by Barnstone, Willis, Garrison, David, Aleixandre, Vicente

Paperback:

9780821406625 | Ohio Univ Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Barnstone, Willis, Garrison, David, Aleixandre, Vicente

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Hardcover:

9780826201942 | Univ of Missouri Pr, April 1, 1976, cover price $18.95

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