The Secret Reader: A Portrait

by Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone offers an amazing sonnet sequence on his double life -- and distinguished career -- as a scholar and an artist. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874516609
• ISBN13: 9780874516609
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent poetry

Willis Barnstone is like an Allen Ginsberg or Lawrence Ferlinghetti for the 90's. The content of many of the poems contained in this book is similar to the great beat poets of the 40's and 50's. While the poetry rarely contains the anger found in Ginsberg's poems, the language occasionally lapses into crudity. Therefore, it may not appeal to all readers, but for those who want a down-to-earth picture of life presented in, of all things, sonnets, this book is definitely worth your time.