Born in Lewiston, Maine, Willis Barnstone was educated at Bowdoin,
Columbia, the Sorbonne, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of
the civil war (1949-51), and in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.
During the Cultural Revolution he went to China where he was later
a Fulbright Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University
(1984-85). Former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate
University, he is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature
and Spanish at Indiana University.
His publications include "Modern European Poetry " (Bantam, 1967),
"The Other Bible "(HarperCollins, 1984), "Poetics of Translation:
History, Theory, Practice " (Yale, 1993), "Funny Ways of Staying
Alive "(University Press of New England, 1993), "The Secret Reader:
501 Sonnets " (University Press of New England, 1996), the memoir
"With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires " (University
of Illinois, 1993), "Algebra of Night: Selected Poems--1949-1998 "
(Sheep Meadow, 1999), "The Apocalypse " (New Directions, 2000),
"Life Watch "(BOA Editions, 2003), "Border of a Dream: Poems of
Antonio Machado " (Copper Canyon, 2003), and "The Gnostic Bible "
(Shambhala Publications, 2003).
A Guggenheim Fellow, his awards include a National Endowment for
the Arts award, a National Endowment for the Humanities award, an
Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, a W. H.
Auden Award of the New York State Council on the Arts, the Midland
Authors Award, three Book of the Month Selections and four Pulitzer
Prize nominations for poetry. His work has appeared in "American
Poetry Review, Doubletake, Harper's, New York Review of Books,
Poetry, Paris Review Poetry, Partisan Review, "the "New Yorker,
"and the "Times Literary Supplement."
"Clear and luminous translations that capture the essence and
poetic beauty of these iridescent texts. "Essential Gnostic
Scriptures" provides further stepping-stones for seekers of wisdom
and knowledge beyond the canonical testaments, or for those who are
simply moved by great sacred poetry."--Jeffrey Henderson, Editor,
Loeb Classical Library
"Fresh and remarkable readable translations of some of the most
important gnostic books discovered in modern times, including the
newly released Gospel of Judas. With its clear and up-to-date
introduction to gnostics and their religion, "Essential Gnostic
Scriptures" will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in
one of the most important religious movements of the ancient
world."--Bart D. Ehrman, author of "Jesus, Interrupted" and "Lost
Christianities"
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