Willis Barnstone

Sappho

A prize-winning poet offers a contemporary translation of poems written by the greatest Greek love poet, whose thrilling lyric verse and mystique endures to be rediscovered by each generation. Original.

The Complete Poems of Sappho

Borges Sekseninde Sohbetler

Poems of Sappho

Sweetbitter Love

A new translation and restructuring of the New Testament by the author of The Gnostic Bible is based on the Greek volume and draws on Semitic sources to restore its faithful, plain, and lyrical narratives, in a volume that also seeks to identify the Greco-Jewish identity of key biblical figures.

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

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 her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English. This book is adapted from a book previously in hardcover as Sweetbitter Love.

The Pocket Sappho

Marvin W. Meyer

This expanded edition of The Gnostic Bible includes the Gospel of Judas'the recently discovered and translated gnostic text that was an instant best seller on its original appearance in 2006-in its most accessible translation yet. Also included are such important and topical texts as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas. Religious thinkers engaged in the quest for wisdom and knowledge, the gnostics proclaimed that salvation could be found through mystical knowledge and intuition. Dating from the first to the thirteenth centuries, the texts in The Gnostic Bible represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar forms of gnostic spirituality, and they derive from Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, France, and elsewhere.

The Gnostic Bible

Marvin Meyer

Gnosticism was a diverse religious movement of the first millennium c.e. whose followers sought salvation above all through personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non- Christian thought. 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 of the original languages of Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Arabic. Among the works included are new transla­tions of the best-selling Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Judas—along with many lesser-known texts of pro­found wisdom and striking beauty.

Essential Gnostic Scriptures

Aliki 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 and twentieth centuries

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now

The Other Bible

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator. Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss and longing, desire, and nature speak volumes. Willis Barnstone’s vivid, contemporary translation, along with his introduction and notes, sheds new light on the spirit and mystique of this ancient Greek poet. This edition is an abridgment of The Complete Poems of Sappho.

THE GNOSTIC BIBLE is by far the most comprehensive compilation of gnostic texts ever published - and the first aimed at rendering the texts in poetic, readable prose. The gnostics were religious thinkers engaged in the quest for wisdom and knowledge, and they proclaimed a salvation to be found through mystical knoweldge and intuition. As the Gospel of Thomas puts it, "Know whatis in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be disclosed. There is nothing hidden from you that will not be revealed." Dating from the first to the thirteen centuries, these gnostic texts represent Jewish, Chritian, Hemetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic and Cathar forms of gnostic spirituality, and they derive from Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, France and elsewhere. These texts show that gnosticism was a world religion that sought truths in a wide variety of religious traditions and expressed those truths in powerful and provocative mystical poetry and prose. The impact of gnosticism upon other religions of the world was considerable, and the influence of gnosticism continues to the present day. This volume represents the first time that such a diverse collection of gnostic texts is published in a single volume and some of the texts are translated into English for the first time here. The texts are accompanied bu introductions and notes and additional study aids describe gnosticism, elucidate gnostic terms and suggest further readings.

Tony Barnstone

Presents excerpts of works, biographical profiles of authors, bibliographies, and annotations explaining obscure references in the texts

From Antiquity to the Present

Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Anthology of selected writings--spanning antiquity to the present--from the non-Western civilizations of Latin America. It includes introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies with literary translations of contemporary and classical writers. The selections reflect literary, religious, and philosophical traditions and revealdespite cultural differencesthe universality of life experiences. [publisher web site].

Literatures of Latin America

I am captivated by these sonnets. The free movement of consciousness, the mind operating in the universe ... [Here] is are and cunning, form and ruthless honesty.-Gerald Stern. A valuable accomplishment ... a remarkable modernist testament.-Edward Hirsch.

501 Sonnets

The Secret Reader

An Anthology

Spanish Poetry, from Its Beginnings Through the Nineteenth Century

In this volume, eminent poet, scholar and translator Willis Barnstone explores the history and theory of literary translations as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, Barnstone emphasizes that the translation contains as much imaginative originality as the source text.

History, Theory, Practice

The Poetics of Translation

Jorge Luis Borges

A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time

Conversations

Borges at Eighty

On the other side of that period are Barnstone's continuing life as the gypsy scholar in China, Tibet, Turkey, and Argentina and his continuing friendship with his children and former wife and the finest writers and artists the world over.

A European Memoir, 1948-1953

Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain

In an engaging series of contending, amusing, and philosophically poignant conversations, Willis Barnstone offers a fresh and touching portrait of Jorge Luis Borges in his later years. Against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and the tragedy of los desaparecidos, we accompany Borges as he walks the streets of Buenos Aires, being greeted by well-wishers. We sit in as he teaches a class in Old English, at the end of which students are asked to read aloud from James, or Whitman, or from Poe's "visionary and atrocious wonders". Borges expresses his opinions on the Malvinas/Falklands war ("a struggle between two old bald men, fighting over a comb") and on poets from T S. Eliot ("a good poet but a stuffy critic") and Robert Frost ("a fine poet but a terrible farmer") to Ezra Pound ("I have one word for Ezra Pound. Fraud"). Readers learn why Borges said of Robert Lowell, "I might like his poems - but only if he keeps his trousers on". Whether expressed in the familiarity of his own apartment, the intimacy of adjoining airplane seats, or the formality of an address to a throng of academics, Borges's words are captured here in context. The blindness and the unique vision for which he is renowned are evident throughout, both in his prodigious feats of textual memory and in his recounting of dreamlike narratives that later would be transferred to paper and print. As Barnstone chronicles events in Argentina and the United States, Maria Kodama's role as Borges's reader and travel companion becomes abundantly clear. The book contains a moving portrait of their marriage in Switzerland, when Borges was on his deathbed.

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