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    Eighteen Texts

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    ABC of Translation

    Willis Barnstone

    A poetic meditation and collection of aphorisms on the art of literary translation by one of the most respected translators in the US. Translating literatures East and West, ancient and…

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    Stickball on 88th Street

    Willis Barnstone

    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. ItAEs a memory book, bound with…

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    The Complete Poems of Sappho

    Willis Barnstone

    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…

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    To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual and Metaphysical Light

    Willis Barnstone

    A compilation of Willis Barnstone’s translations of nine mystical and spiritual poets. The poetry spans 3000 years and contains some profound and inspiring writing from world literature, including the Song…

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

    Willis Barnstone

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

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    Poets of the Bible: From Solomon’s Song of Songs to John’s Revelation

    The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way… with evocative simplicity. -Robert Alter

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    The Poems of Jesus Christ

    The words of Jesus Christ are restored to their original poetic form in this extraordinary volume.

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    Pocket Sappho,The

    Willis Barnstone

    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…

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    The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice

    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, the book emphasizes that imaginative originality resides…

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    The Song of Songs =: Shir Hashirim

    A new translation of the great love poems, The Song of Songs (or The Canticles)

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    A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now: Selections from the World Over

    Willis Barnstone

    Anthologizes verses by women ranging from Enheduanna, a second millennium B.C. Sumerian princess, to the medieval poets Marie de France and Florencia de Pinar, to noteworthy poets of the nineteenth…

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    Essential Gnostic Scriptures: Texts of Luminous Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?Including the Gospels of Thomas, Judas, and Mary Magdalene

    Marvin Meyer,Willis Barnstone

    This collection provides fresh translations of some of the most popular and beautiful Gnostic texts, with an eye to presenting them as literature, with full appreciation of the aesthetic sense…

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    The Gnostic Bible

    Willis Barnstone,Marvin Meyer

    Including the Gospel of Judas , this work features such important and topical texts as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas . Dating from the first…

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    The Other Alexander

    Margarita Liberaki

    First published in the 1950s to international acclaim, Margarita Liberaki’s allegorical novel, The Other Alexander, speaks to the opposing forces inherent in human nature. This exquisite poetic drama reenacts Greek…

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    The Poems of St. John of the Cross

    Saint John, of the Cross

    Saint John’s poetry of love and joy describes the soul’s passage through dark night to final illumination in mystical union with Absolute Being. The allegory the poet uses is that…

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    Ancient Greek Lyrics

    Collects Willis Barnstone’s translations of Greek lyric poetry - including the most complete Sappho in English. This book includes a representative sampling of significant poets, from Archilochos, in the 7th…

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    I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems

    Miguel Hernandez

    Imprisoned in Franco’s jails, Miguel Hernandez died from untreated TB in 1942 at the age of 31. His passionate and bittersweet work is a dazzling reminder that force can never…

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    The Art of Worldly Wisdom

    Balthasar Gracian

    These texts, written in the 17th-century by a worldly Jesuit, retain their relevance by addressing issues such as effective communication, leadership and managing emotions. Emphasizing strategy above ethics, the readings…

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    Other Voices of Gnosticism

    Miguel Conner

    Miguel Conner interviews the most prominent writers and scholars on Gnosticism: Tobias Churton - Nicola Denzey-Lewis - Richard Smoley - Gary Lachman - Stephan Hoeller - David Brakke - Robert…

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