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Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and during the Cultural Revolution went to China, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985). His publications include The Other Bible (HarperCollins, 1984), a memoir biography With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires (Illinois, 1993), and To Touch the Sky (New Directions, 1999). A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, Barnstone is Distinguished Professor at Indiana University.

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Willis Barnstone has a problem: he's too good. Dazzlingly gifted as a writer ... everything he writes, from his invaluable The Other Bible, which no writer should be without, through his brilliant translations and beautiful poems, up to this new collection, is a breathtaking achievement. Buy this book.

— Carolyn Kizer

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Willis Barnstone's China poems, though some have taken the form of song or sonnet, have the savor of immediate experience. They are personal, but they are also the poems of a man vitalized by another land and rejuvenated by its strangeness.