Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone, PhD, former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include The Poetics of Translation , The Other Bible , The New Covenant , With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires , Life Watch , Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado , and The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer). He has received numerous awards for his...See more

Willis Barnstone, PhD, former O'Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. A Guggenheim Fellow, poet, scholar, and memoirist, his many books include The Poetics of Translation , The Other Bible , The New Covenant , With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires , Life Watch , Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado , and The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer). He has received numerous awards for his work, among them the Emily Dickinson Award, the W. H. Auden Award, and a PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Special Citation for translation. His most recent book is The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer). See less