Willis Barnstone is a poet and distinguished professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Professor, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist in poetry, he is the author of The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice (Yale University Press, 1993) and Algebra of the Night: New & Selected Poems, 1948–1998 (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999). His literary translation of the New Testament is forthcoming from Penguin Putnam. (updated 2001)