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.
Milk and Honey 
I Don't Like Poetry 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Jinx 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
A Monkey At the Window 
Steep Tea 
Dog Poems 
A Colomber in the House of Poesy 
New & Selected Potatoes