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Border of a Dream - Selected Poems of Antonio Machado by Antonio Machado; Willis Barnstone (Translator)
Category: Poetry
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is Spain's master poet, the explorer of dream and landscape, and of consciousness below language. Widely regarded as the greatest twentieth century poet who wrote in Spanish, Machado--like his contemporary Rilke--is intensely introspective and meditative. In this collection, ...Show more
Poets of the BibleFrom Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation by Willis Barnstone
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The world's greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major poets are traditionally rendered into prose. In this pioneering volume of biblical poets translated in English, Willis Barnstone restores the lyricism and power of the poets' voices in both the New and Old Testaments. In the Hebrew Bible ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Sappho by Willis Barnstone
Category: Poetry
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, her mystique endur ...Show more
The Pocket Sappho by Sappho (Translated by Willis Barnstone)
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho's thrilling lyric verses have 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 h ...Show more
The Poems of Jesus Christ by Willis Barnstone
Category: Spirituality
Jesus Christ, whose teachings have been on the lips of millions for two millennia, is revealed here as one of the greatest poets of all time. What happened to deafen us to the poetic nature of his words? In migrating from Aramaic speech into written Greek translation, and later into English translation, ...Show more
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by St John of the Cross (tr from Spanish Willis Barnstone)
Category: Poetry
San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In "The Poems of St. John of the Cross" John Frederick Nims presents his superlativ ...Show more
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