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Poetry

  1. ■  Cafe de l’Aube à Paris / Dawn Café in Paris, Poems Composed in     French + Their Translation into English, Rhinebeck, New York:  Sheep Meadow Press, 2011, 254 pp.

  2. ■ABC of Translation  Poems & Drawings, Black Widow Press: Boston, 2013, 108

           Moonbook and Sunbook, Tupelo Press, 2014, 110.

  1. ■Mexico in My Heart: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press: Manchester. United Kingdom, 2015.

  2. ■Poems of Exchange with Six Poems Translated from Antonio Machado, Athens: l’Institut français d’Athènes, 1951.

  3. ■From This White Island, New York: Bookman, 1960.

  4. ■Antijournal, Vancouver, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press, 1971.

  5. ■A Day in the Country, New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

  6. ■New Faces of China, Bloomington, IN/London: Indiana University Press, 1972.

  7. ■China Poems, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press,1977.

  8. ■Stickball on 88th Street, Illustrated by Karmen Effenberger, Boulder, CO: Bonus Book of Colorado Quarterly, 1978.

  9. ■Overheard, With 27 Drawings by Helle Tzalopoulou Barnstone. Bloomington, IN: Raintree Press, Limited Edition, 1979

  10. ■A Snow Salmon Reached the Andes Lake, New York/Austin: Curbstone Press, 1980.

  11. ■Ten Gospels and a Nightingale, Brookston, IN: Triangular Press, Limited Edition, 1981.

  12. ■The Alphabet of Night, Blomington, IN: Raintree Press, Limited Edition, 1984.

  13. ■Five A.M. in Beijing, Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press,1987.

  14. ■Funny Ways of Staying Alive, Poems and Ink Drawings. Hanover/London: University Press of New England, 1993.

  15. ■The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets, Hanover/London: University Press of New England,1996.

  16. ■Algebra of Night: New & Selected Poems 1948-1998, Riverdale-on-Hudson: Sheep Meadow Press,1998.

  17. ■Life Watch, Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2003.

  18. ■Life Watch, Translated into Arabic by Abed Ishmael, Damascus, Syria: Al-Mada Publishing Company, 2004.


Memoir

  1. ■From Hawthorne's Gloom to a Whitewashed Island, Edited by Joyce Nakamura, Detroit/London: Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Gale Research Inc., Volume 15, 1992.

  2. ■With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires: A Memoir, Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Borges, într-o seară obişnuită, la Buenos Aires, Translated into Romanian by Mihnea Gafiţa, Bucureşti, România: Curtea Veche Publishing, 2002. With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (A Memoir), Translated into Arabic by Dr. Abed Ishamael, Damacus, Syria: Al-Mada Publishing Company, 2002.

  3. ■Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain: A European Memoir (1948–1953), Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

  4. ■We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems: With a Dialogue and Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004



Literary Criticism

  1. ■ABC of Translation  Poems & Drawings, Black Widow Press: Boston, 2013, 108

  2. ■Borges at 80: Conversations & Photographs. New York: New Directions, 2013, 178 pp.

  3. ■Borges at Eighty: Conversations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.Conversations avec J.L.Borge a l`occasion de son 80e anniversaire, Presentées par Willis Barnstone, Traduites de l'Americain au francais par Anne La Flaquière, Paris: Editions Ramsay. Jorge Luis Borges, Conversazioni Americane, A cura di Willis Barnstone, Traduzione in Italiano di Franco Mogni, Roma: Editori Riuniti, 1984. Borges at Eighty Chinese edition, Beijing, 2003.

  4. ■The Poetics of Ecstasy: from Sappho to Borges, New York: Holmes & Meier, 1983.

  5. ■The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.


Religious Scriptures

  1. ■The Poems of Jesus Christ, Poems Translation with Introductions, W.W. Norton: New York, 2012, 270 pp. 

  2. ■The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrolls, Edited with Introductions, San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1984. Sumgyojin Songso (translation of The Other Bible into Korean), Translation by Yi Tong-jin, Soul, Korea: Munhak Such’op, 1994, 2 vol; 2nd expanded ed., 3 volumes, 2005.

  3. ■The Apocalypse: Book of Revelation, A New Translation with Introduction, New York: New Directions, 2000.

  4. ■The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Gracian Baltazar, Edited and with Introduction by Willis Barnstone and with Translation by J. Joseph Jacobs and Willis Barnstone, Boston: Shambhala Classics, 2000.

  5. ■The New Covenant: The Four Gospels and Apocalypse, Newly Translated from the Greek and Informed by Semitic Sources, New York: Riverhead/Penguin Group, 2002.

  6. ■The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds---Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Islamic, and Cathar, (edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer), Boston: Shambhala Books, 2003; The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded, Including the Gospel of Judas, (edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer), Boston: Shambhala Books, 2009.

  7. ■The Gnostic Bible: Book and Audio-CD Set, The Gnostics and Their Scriptures and 3 CDs, Edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer; Read by Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer, and Nancy Lesniewski, Boston: Shambhala Books, 2008.

  8. ■The Restored New Testament Including The Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, Mary, and Judas, Newly Translated from the Greek and Informed by Semitic Sources, New York/London: W.W. Norton, 2009.


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Anthologies and Editions

  1. ■Rinconete y Cortadillo by Miguel de Cervantes Edited by Willis Barnstone and Hugh Harter. New York: Las Americas, 1960.

  2. ■Modern European Poetry, Willis Barnstone; Individual sections edited by Kimon Friar, Greek Poetry; Patricia Terry, French Poetry; Arthur Wensinger, German Poetry; George Reavy, Russian Poetry; Sonia Raiziss and Alfred de Palchi, Italian Poetry; Angel Flores, Spanish Poetry. New York: Bantam Books (Bantam Classics), 1966.

  3. ■Concrete Poetry: A World View, Edited by Mary Ellen Solt and Willis Barnstone, Introduction by Mary Ellen Solt, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.

  4. ■Eighteen Texts: Writings by Contemporary Greek Authors, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.

  5. ■A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, New York: Schocken Books, 1980; 2nd edition edition. New York: Schocken Books/Pantheon, 1992.

  6. ■The Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Willis Barnstone and Tony Barnstone. New York: Prentice Hall, 1998.

  7. ■Literatures of Latin America, New York: Prentice Hall, 2002.

  8. ■Literatures of the Middle East, Tony Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, New York: Penguin-Putnam, 2002.

 

Willis Barnstone’s Selected Bibliography

Available

Translations

  1. ■The Restored New Testament, RFBD (Recorded for the Blind and the Dyslexic) by Jerry D. Byrd, Santa Barbara, CA, 2011

  2. ■The Restored New Testament Including The Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, Mary, and Judas, A New Translation with Commentary, New York/London: W.W. Norton, 2009, 1485 pp.

  3. ■The New Covenant: The Four Gospels and Apocalypse. Newly Translated from the Greek and Informed by Semitic Sources. New York: Riverhead/Penguin Putnam Books, 2002.

  4. ■Eighty Poems of Antonio Machado, Jacket drawing by Pablo Picasso, Drawings by William Bailey, Introduction by John Dos Passos, Reminiscence by Juan Ramon Jimenez. New York: Las Americas,1959.

  5. ■The Other Alexander, Margarita Liberaki, with Foreword by Albert Camus, a Modern Greek novel translated by Willis Barnstone and Helle Barnstone, New York: Noonday Books, 1959.

  6. ■Greek Lyric Poetry, Introduction by William McCulloh. New York: Bantam Classics, 1962; 2nd ed., with drawings by Helle Tzalopoulou Barnstone, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967.

  7. ■Mexico Before Cortez: Art, History, Legend by Ignacio Bernal, Translation and Introduction by Willis Barnstone, New York: Doubleday (Dolphin), 1963; Peter Smith, 1964.

  8. ■Physiologus Theobaldi Episcopi De Naturis Duodecim Animalium, Bishop Theobald's Bestiary of Twelve Animals, Latin text with translations, Lithographs by Rudy Pozzatti. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1964.

  9. ■Sappho: Lyrics in the Original Greek with Translations, Introduction by Willis Barnstone, Foreword by Andrew Burn. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1965; 2nd ed., New York: New York University Press.

  10. ■The Poems of Saint John of the Cross, Introduction and Translations, Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University. Press, 1967. The Poems of Saint John of the Cross, rev. ed., Introduction and Translations, New Directions: New York, 1972.

  11. ■The Song of Songs: Shir Hashirim, (translated from the Masoretic Hebrew text). Athens, Greece: Kedros, 1970; 2nd rev. ed., Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2002.

  12. ■The Poems of Mao Tse-tung, Translation with Ko Ching-po, Introduction, Notes by Willis Barnstone, New York: Harper & Row, 1972; 2nd. ed., London: Barrie & Jenkins Ltd., 1972. The Poems of Mao Tse-tung, rev. ed., Translation with Ko Ching-po, Introduction, Notes by Willis Barnstone, New York: Bantam Books., 1972.

  13. ■My Voice Because of You: 70 poems, Pedro Salinas, Introduction and Translations, Preface by Jorge Guillén, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1976.

  14. ■Radiance and Death of Joaquin Murieta by Pablo Neruda, Translated by Willis Barnstone, Modern International Drama, Vol. 10, Number 1, 1976.

  15. ■The Dream Below the Sun: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, Cover drawing by Pablo Picasso, Drawings by William Bailey, Introduction by John Dos Passos, Reminiscence by Juan Ramon Jimenez, Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1981.

  16. ■The Unknown Light: The Poems of Fray Luis de Leon, Introduction and Translations, Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1979,

  17. ■Bird of Paper: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre, Preface by Vicente Aleixandre, Translations by Willis Barnstone and David Garrison, Pittsburgh: International Forum, Byblos Editions, VI, 1981; 2nd ed., Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1982.

  18. ■Twenty-four Conversations with Borges: Including a Selection of Poems, Interviews by Rosberto Alifano 1981-1983, Edited by Nicomedes Suarez Arauz, Translations by Willis Barnstone, New York/Housatonic, MA: Grove Press/Lascaux Publishers, 1984.

  19. ■Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Selected Poems of Wang Wei, Translations by Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone, and Xu Haixin. Beijing, China: Foreign Literature Press (Panda Books), 1989.

  20. ■Cantico espiritual: The Spiritual Canticle of St.John of the Cross, Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, limited edition, 1990.

  21. ■Laughing Lost in the Mountains: The Poems of Wang Wei, Introduction by Willis Barnstone and Tony Barnstone, Translations by Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone, and Xu Haixin, with Drybrush Drawings by Willis Barnstone, Hanover, NH. University Press of New England, 1992.

  22. ■Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: (Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Hernandez: Essays and Translations, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

  23. ■The Courage of the Rainbow by Bronislava Volkavá, Introduction by Willis Barnstone, Translations by author and Willis Barnstone, Andrew Durkin, Gregory Orr, and Lilli Parott, The Sheep Meadow Press: Riverdale-on-Hudson: New York, 1993.

  24. ■The Poems of Sappho: A New Translation, Translation and Introduction, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1997.

  25. ■To Touch the Sky: Spiritual, Mystical, and Philosophical Poems in Translation, New Directions, New York, 1999.

  26. ■Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004.

  27. ■Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, (bilingual edition), Translated with an Introduction, Boston: Shambhala Books, 2004.

  28. ■Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho, A New Translation, Translated by Willis Barnstone, With Epilogue and Metrical Guide by William McCulloh, 2006.

  29. ■The Poems of Mao Zedong, Introduction, Translations, and Notes, University of California Press, 2008.

  30. ■The Complete Poems of Sappho,, Translated with an Introduction, Boston: Shambhala Books, 2009.

  31. ■Ancient Greek Lyrics, Translated by Willis Barnstone with an Introduction by William McCulloh, Indiana University Press, 2009.

  32. ■Love Poems by Pedro Salinas: My Voice Because of You and Letter Poems to Katherine, Translated with an Introduction, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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