Portrait of Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone

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)

AGNI has published the following work:

Homeless

Poetry by Willis Barnstone

AGNI has published the following translations:

The Face Also Has Bruised Dignity

Poetry by Bei Ling Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xi Chuan

The Sun Singers

Poetry by Bei Ling Translated from the Chinese by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, and Xi Chuan
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