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Willis Barnstone has published over fifty books of poetry, criticism, and translation, including From This White Island (Bookman Publishers, 1960), Ten Gospels and a Nightingale (Triangular Press, 1981), The Alphabet of Night (Frederick Brewer, 1984), Funny Ways of Staying Alive: Poems and Ink Drawings (University Press of New England, 1993), Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Essays and Translations (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993), The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets (University Press of New England, 1996), Algebra of Night: New & Selected Poems 1948-1998 (Sheep Meadow Press, 1998), and To Touch the Sky: Spiritual, Mystical, and Philosophical Poems in Translation (New Directions, 1999). In addition, his work has been published in hundreds of journals, including The Paris Review, Nation, and The New Yorker. This is his second appearance in The Pedestal Magazine. He has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including two Fulbright Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Midland Authors Award, The Gustav Davidson Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The W.H. Auden Award of the New York State Arts Council. He has taught and lectured around the world, including Finland, Peru, Greece, Philippines, Argentina, and China. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Indiana University.
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