Poet and uniquely important translator Willis Barnstone has translated Sapho and the Greek Lyric Poets, Love Poems by Pedro Salinas, The Restored New Testament and works by Goethe, Rilke, St. John of the Cross, Borges, etc., etc. Cafe de l'Aube a Paris was originally written in French. At the suggestion of his publisher, Barnstone translated his own poems.
Author Biography
Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College, Columbia University, and Yale University. He is also the author of Algebra of Night and 5 A.M. in Beijing also published by Sheep Meadow Press.
