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Tony Barnstone’s books of poems include Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005), Impure (University Press of Florida, 1998), and a chapbook: Naked Magic. His book of Chinese Erotic Poetry (Everyman, 2008) and The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, Benjamin Saltman Award winner) are due out this fall. He has received many prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. He lived for years in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his M.F.A and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. He is now Professor of English at Whittier College.

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From Sheep Meadow Press

Plain-spoken and magical, this poet knows how to make imagination and the real world collide softly—a mantra of what is and what is dreamt—that takes into the sacred territory what no ordinary compass can plot or unplot.

—Yusef Komunyakaa

Photo: Caroline Heldman

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