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Willis Barnstone
Born in 1927 in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone is one of America’s most prolific and highly-regarded translators and poets. He has spent extended periods in Mexico, Spain, Franc...vizualizați mai multeBorn in 1927 in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone is one of America’s most prolific and highly-regarded translators and poets. He has spent extended periods in Mexico, Spain, France, England, Greece, Kenya, and China, both as a teacher and scholar. A Guggenheim fellow and former O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University and Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Barnstone is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Indiana University. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four Pulitzer nominations, the NEA, NEH, ACLS, Auden Award of NY Council on the Arts, and six awards from Poetry Society of America, including the Emily Dickinson Award and the Fred Cody Life Achievement Award. Recent poetic works include Life Watch (BOA), Poeti of Translation (Yale University Press), Ancient Greek Lyri (Indiana University Press), Borges at Eighty (New Directions), Stickball on 88th Street (Red Hen Press), The Restored New Testament (W. W. Norton), The Gnostic Bible (Shambhala), The Other Bible (Harper), and The Secret Reader (University Press of New England).vizualizați mai puține