Willis barnstone biography
Willis barnstone biography
Willis barnstone poetry.
Willis Barnstone
American poet, translator, and Hispanist
Willis Barnstone (born November 13, 1927) is an American poet, religious scholar, and translator.
He was born in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Oakland, California. He has translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pedro Salinas, Pablo Neruda, and Wang Wei, as well as the New Testament and fragments by Sappho and pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος).[1]
Education
He completed his secondary education at Stuyvesant High School, the George School, and Phillips Exeter Academy before receiving degrees from Bowdoin College (B.A., 1948), Columbia University (M.A., 1956) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1960).
He studied at the University of Mexico (1947), the Sorbonne (1948–49) and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (1952–53).[1] In high school and college he volunteered with the Quaker American Friends Service Committee in Aztec