Description
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 – ‘ Mexico in My Heart is the essential Barnstone, drawing on fifteen collections, poetry from six decades of writing and from several continents. He went to Mexico at the age of fifteen and, gathering languages and literatures, has never stopped learning.
States of Happiness 
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
101 Poems About Childhood 
The Tamarit Poems 
A Little Book on Form 
Gold from the Stone 
Then What 
Somewhere Else Entirely