Mexico in My Heart

by Willis Barnstone

Book Overview

Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret Reader, and my daily Corn Flakes...'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784100145
• ISBN13: 9781784100148
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"