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title:The Secret Reader : 501 Sonnets
author:Barnstone, Willis.
publisher:University Press of New England
isbn10 | asin:0874516609
print isbn13:9780874516609
ebook isbn13:9780585224480
language:English
subjectSonnets, American.
publication date:1996
lcc:PS3552.A722S43 1996eb
ddc:811/.54
subject:Sonnets, American.
Page a
"Willis Barnstone has a problem: he's too good. Dazzlingly gifted as a writer, he is also dazzlingly prolifica combination which has caused some distress among his fellow poets and some critics. But it's time we faced life, and this rare phenomenon: everything he writes, from his invaluable The Other Bible, a compendium of holy texts no writer should be without, through his brilliant translations and beautiful poems, up to this new collection of 501 sonnets, The Secret Reader, is a breathtaking achievement. Buy this book."
Carolyn Kizer
"An amazingly original and profound poet offers a sequence that draws you like good fiction The eagerness, love, and metaphysical tension to join and recognize impossible solitude go through the histories."
Ruth Stone
"The stunning scope, their wonderful irreverence, their slangy, antic humor, their stark realism, and their brave confrontation with the ultimate questions all combine to bring us a worthy lifework that is bound to be recognized as a masterpiece."
Philip Appleman
"Who isn't pleased to be given a bonus? There are bonuses in the work of certain poets. One of them is Willis Barnstone. His thought is of course the core, but with it come tones and overtones, undertones even, from the poets whom he has so brilliantly, so sensitively translated from many languages. Their voices are there with his, with the poet who has such an ear for language that no subtlety escapes it."
James Laughlin
"Willis Barnstone is an American original whose recently completed collection of sonnets is a classic. A great achievement, reflecting a lifetime of commitment to the act of literature. It is filled with lyricism, passion, meditative wisdom, irreverence, blasphemy and unflinching compassion for the human condition. Clearly a tour de force."
D. M. Hertz
Page b
"In the sonnet form Willis Barnstone has discovered a beguilingly flexible means of casting material usually reserved for the memoir and the prose essay. Those who have known him mainly as a translator, Spanish scholar and Bible editor, can now share his vividly personal secret, this summa of 501 amazing sonnets."
Edwin Honig
"An important collection by one of our most exciting poets."
David St. John
"If sonnets were windmills, give Willis Barnstone a knighthood and a horse with dreamy eyes, not for his victories alone, but because something in this book helps us get up out of the snow and ice of our lives."
Stanley Moss
"Through the lyricism and urgency of these 501 sonnets, something terribly human rises again and again, assuring us it is impossible to keep Willis Barnstone's The Secret Reader secret."
Yusef Komunyakaa
Page iii
The Secret Reader
501 Sonnets
Willis Barnstone
University Press of New England
Hanover & London
Page iv
University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
1996 by Willis Barnstone
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
CIP data appear at the end of the book
Some of these poems have appeared in the following publications:
Agni, The American Scholar, The Antioch Review, The Arizona Quarterly, The Bestiary of Bishop Theobaldus, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, Boundary 2, The California Quarterly, The Chicago Review, Correspondences, CutBank, The Denver Quarterly, The Dream Under the Sun: Poems of Antonio Machado, Exquisite Corpse, Five A.M. in Beijing, From This White Island, The Formalist, Holiday Magazine, International Poetry Review, In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning, Kayak, The Kenyon Review, Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei, The Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Modern European Poetry, Modern Poetry Review, The Nation, New Letters, The New Republic, The New York Quarterly, Nimrod, The North American Review, The Northwest Review, The Partisan Review, The Poems of Saint John of the Cross, Poets at Wesleyan, The Prairie Schooner, Sappho and the Greek Lyric Poets, The Sewanee Review, Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain: A Memoir, The Tar River Review, Times Literary Supplement, Voices within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets, The Wisconsin Review.
"Lapland" first appeared in The New Yorker.
Dry brush drawings by Willis Barnstone
My thanks to Ayame Fukuda for her crucial readings of these poems.
Page v
for Sarah, Helle, Aliki,
Robert & Tony
Page vii
Picture 2
Everyone is a secret reader. Every book is a secret reader too. And even in those apparently barren and lone caves at Qumran, hidden words on a papyrus apocryphon waited, as we all wait, for eyes to discover and decipher them. So, by accident or luck or the begrudging indulgence of time, the secret reader may find the secret reader.
Pierre Grange,On the Dead Sea Scrolls
Page ix
CONTENTS
A Chat with the Reader
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History I
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