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1	The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor) add to wishlist Gnosticism, steeped as it is in individualism, introspection, and personal revelation, is especially appealing to personal seekers who have turned away from formal religion. The publication of several best-selling Gnosticism-related studies and the roaring success of THE DA VINCI CODE have dusted up great public interest in the Gnostic texts in a ... see all copies from $6.44! new only from $8.17! \| first editions
2	The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha/Christian Apocrypha/Gnostic Scriptures/Kabbalah/Dead Sea Scrolls more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Editor) add to wishlist Presents a comprehensive overview of the ancient texts excluded from the official canon of the Bible and provides extensive introductions to such major writings as the Gnostic Gospels, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Kabbalah, wisdom texts, and the Apocrypha. Reprint. see all copies from $6.79! new only from $14.13! \| SVS
3	The Gnostic Bible more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor) add to wishlist Gnosticism, steeped as it is in individualism, introspection, and personal revelation, is especially appealing to personal seekers who have turned away from formal religion. The publication of several best-selling Gnosticism-related studies and the roaring success of THE DA VINCI CODE have dusted up great public interest in the Gnostic texts in a ... see all copies from $5.40! new only from $16.08! \| SVS
4	The Other Bible more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Editor) add to wishlist Presents the ancient texts excluded from the official canon of the Bibleand provides extensive introductions to all major writings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.49! \| first editions
5	The New Covenant: Commonly Called the New Testament: Volume 1: The Four Gospels and the Apocalypse more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist In this poetic and historically sensitive new translation of the four Gospels and Revelation (Apocalypse), award-winning poet, translator, and scholar Willis Barnstone returns the bedrock of Christianity to its origins as an outgrowth of Judaism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $41.04! \| first editions
6	Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator), William E McCulloh (Epilogue by) add to wishlist Sappho is the greatest of the Greek lyric poets and one of the very few women poets of the ancient world whom we know by name. In translation Willis Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase where the meaning is obvious. see all copies from $3.94! new only from $5.95! \| SVS
7	The New Covenant more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist From an award-winning poet and scholar of Greek and biblical studies comes this volume containing the New Testament's four gospels and Revelation, newly translated from the Greek and informed by Semitic sources. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.90! \| first editions
8	Literatures of the Middle East more books like this by Tony Barnstone, Willis Barnstone add to wishlist This book is suitable for courses in Middle Eastern Literature, Middle Eastern History, World Literature, and Non-Western Literature. This extraordinary anthology gathers together a broad selection of representative, authoritative writings-spanning antiquity to the present-from the non-Western civilizations of the Middle East. It combines ... see all copies from $27.00! new only from $84.40!
9	Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: From Antiquity to the Present more books like this by Willis Barnstone, Tony Barnstone add to wishlist This extraordinary anthology gathers together a tremendously broad selection of representative, authoritative writings -- spanning antiquity to the present -- from the most ancient non-Western civilizations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. see all copies from $68.88!
10	The Complete Poems of Sappho more books like this by Sappho, Willis Barnstone (Translator) add to wishlist Sappho's thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years - certainly a record for poetry of any kind - and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, ... see all copies from $9.67! new only from $9.67! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist This text explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, the book emphasizes that imaginative originality resides as much in the translation as in the source text - a view that skews conventional ideas of artistic primacy. Barnstone ... see all copies from $12.59! new only from $23.50!
12 view cover	Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now more books like this by Aliki Barnstone (Editor), Willis Barnstone (Editor) add to wishlist When it was originally published in 1980, A Book of Women Poets was hailed by Time as a "splendid, pioneering collection". This generous selection of poetry by women--spanning 4,000 years--is now revised and updated, with an expanded selection of American women poets. see all copies from $2.36! new only from $20.23! \| SVS
13 view cover	The Poems of St. John of the Cross more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Translator), St John of the Cross add to wishlist San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In "The Poems of St. John of the Cross" John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.91! \| first editions
14 view cover	We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist Willis Barnstone's third book of memoirs begins with his childhood and ends with his brother's death in 1987. A central theme is labels - names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. Barnstone speaks as a Jew who has from early in his life shared parallel experiences with African Americans. He dwells on his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Introduction by) add to wishlist "To Touch the Sky" compiles Willis Barnstone's translations of nine mystical and spiritual poets' most important work: The Song of Songs, Cosmic Fragments of Herakleitos, Saying Poems of Yeshua the Messiah, Apocalypse by John of Patmos, Taoist and Buddhist Poems of Wang Wei, Allegorical Bestiary by Bishop Theobaldus, Mystical Poems of Mira Bai, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| SVS
16 view cover	Literatures of Latin America more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist For courses in Latin American Literature, World Literature, and Non-Western Literature. This extraordinary anthology gathers together a broad selection of representative, authoritative writings--spanning antiquity to the present--from the non-Western civilizations of Latin America. It combines extensive introductions, headnotes, and ... see all copies from $39.90!
17 view cover	The Poems of Mao Zedong more books like this by Zedong Mao, Willis Barnstone (Translator) add to wishlist Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss ... see all copies from $9.78! new only from $17.94! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Sonnets to Orpheus Bilingual Edition more books like this by Maria Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Willis Barnstone (Translator) add to wishlist Written in February 1922, Rilkes Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. The poems were written in memory of Vera Oukama Knoop, the daughter of two of Rilkes friends, who died tragically at the age of eighteen. In his wonderful translation, Willis Barnstone brings an approach honed through years of work on ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $5.34! \| SVS
19 view cover	Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain: A European Memoir, 1948-1953 more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist In a writing style that may offer a glimpse of the tapestries woven on the looms of Athena and Arachne, Willis Barnstone presents a seamless tale of the first years of his life that moves as naturally from prose to poetry and back as day moves to night. Focusing on the five years Barnstone spent following his graduation from Bowdoin College living ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Algebra of Night more books like this by Willis Barnstone add to wishlist see all copies from $3.15! new only from $13.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Funny Ways of Staying Alive more books like this by Willis Barnstone, Charles N. Thompson, Lynn Levine add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.38! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Hernandez more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Editor) add to wishlist This bilingual collection of 112 sonnets by six Spanish-language poets ranges in time from the 17th to the 20th-centuries and includes the works of poets from Spanish America as well as poets native to Spain. see all copies from $24.98! new only from $26.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Eighteen Texts: Writings by Contemporary Greek Authors more books like this by Willis Barnstone (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	The Apocalypse more books like this by John of Patmos, Willis Barnstone (Translator) add to wishlist The great epic poetic work of the New Testament, translated by the wonderful and highly esteemed translator and scholar Willis Barnstone. The Apocalypse (1st-2nd century C.E.) is attributed to John of Patmos. It is revealed by a succession of angels, asserting that God will intervene decisively in the present evil age and reward his long ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.46!
25 view cover	Selected Poetry Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros more books like this by Delmira Agustini, Alejandro Caceres (Translator), Willis Barnstone (Foreword by) add to wishlist This bilingual "en face" edition offers English readers a representative sampling of the poetry of Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death in 1914 at just 27. Deemed too sensual and explicit during her lifetime, Agustini's work is only now being discovered and studied. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.51! \| first editions

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