Willis Barnstone

Algebra of Night (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781878818607

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Ancient Greek Lyrics (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780253221216

Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetryincluding the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative sampling of all the significant poets...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:338

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Essential Gnostic Scriptures (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781590305492

Gnosticism was a diverse religious movement of the first millennium C.E. whose followers sought salvation above all through personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. This collection provides fresh translations of some of the most popular and beautiful Gnostic texts...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:271

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Five A.M. in Beijing: Poems of China (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780935296679

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Five A.M. in Beijing: Poems of China (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780935296662

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From This White Island (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781258108595

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From This White Island (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781258211615

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Gnostic Bible, The (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781590301999

A landmark work of scholarship and literary translation, "The Gnostic Bible" presents the most significant and beautiful sacred texts of gnostic mysticism...more details
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GNOSTIC BIBLE (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781570622427

This is by far the most comprehensive compilation of gnostic texts ever published. Dating from the first to the thirteenth centuries, these gnostic texts represent Jewish...more details
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Life Watch (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781929918362

"Life Watch: A Circle of Ninety-One Nights "is an ambitious sequence of -poems that begins in childhood, moves through Barnstone's adult years...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:146

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OTHER BIBLE: FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1 VOL (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780060815981

Presents a comprehensive overview of the ancient texts excluded from the official canon of the Bible and provides extensive introductions to such major writings as the Gnostic Gospels...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:773

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SAPPHO (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781590301753

Sappho is the greatest lyric poet of antiquity. Plato, a century after her death, referred to her as "the Tenth Muse," and Longinos, in his first-century treatise "On the Sublime...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:316

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Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780809321278

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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Stickball on 88th Street (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781597094771

Comic, tragic, colorful, and adventurous, "Stickball on 88th Street" is a sequence of thirty-four narrative poems that follows its speaker from boyhood to college. It's a memory book...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:102

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Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain - A European Memoir, 1948-1953 (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780809318834

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The Complete Poems of Sappho (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781590306130

Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years--certainly a record for poetry of any kind--and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:206

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The Poems of Jesus Christ (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780393083576

The words of Jesus Christ are restored to their original poetic form in this extraordinary volume....more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:252

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The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780300063004

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:314

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The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780393064933

From acclaimed scholar Willis Barnstone, The Restored New Testament -- newly translated from the Greek and informed by Semitic sources.

In his monumental new translation and restructuring of the New Testament...more details
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We Jews and Blacks (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780253219213

A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, We Jews and Blacks wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:241

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We Jews and Blacks (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780253344199

A poignant memoir by distinguished Professor Willis Barnstone that wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. Drawing parallels between his identity as a Jew and the African-American community...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:248

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With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (Book)

Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780252068638

"This fresh and poignant portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years combines spirited and philosophical conversations, biographical anecdotes...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:208

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Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now (Book)

Aliki Barnstone;Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780805209976

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Poems (Book)

Sappho;Willis Barnstone WillisBarnstone

ISBN:9781892295132

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...more details
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The Apocalypse (Book)

John of Patmos;Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780811214469

The Apocalypse (1st-2nd century C.E.) is attributed to John of Patmos. It is revealed by a succession of angels, asserting that God will intervene decisively in the present evil age and reward his long-suffering elect. Reflecting the Roman occupation and oppression of the Jews...more details
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The Courage of the Rainbow: Selected Poems (Book)

Bronislava Volkova;Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781878818201

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The Gnostic Bible (Book and Audio-CD Set)

ISBN:9781590306420

Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium C.E. whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and mystical experience. Sample the gnostics in their own words with this unique book-and-audio set. The book...more details
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The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition (Book)

Marvin Meyer;Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9781590306314

This expanded edition of The Gnostic Bible includes the Gospel of Judas--the recently discovered and translated gnostic text that was an instant best seller on its original appearance in 2006--in its most accessible translation yet...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:881

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The Poems of Mao Zedong (Book)

Zedong Mao;Willis Barnstone

ISBN:9780520256651

Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition)...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:151

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The Poems of St. John of the Cross (Book)

Willis Barnstone;St John of the Cross

ISBN:9780811204491

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