A translation and restructuring of the New Testament. It restores the original Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew forms of names (Markos for Mark, Yeshua for Jesus, Galil for Galilee), revealing the Greco-Jewish identity of key biblical figures and their geography. It offers a literary version of scripture.
A translation and restructuring of the New Testament. It restores the original Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew forms of names (Markos for Mark, Yeshua for J...
Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret Reader, and my daily Corn Flakes...' Mexico in My Heart is the essential Barnstone, drawing on fifteen collections, poetry from six decades of writing and from several...
Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authori...
