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Five A.M. in Beijing
Poems of China
Willis Barnstone
Sheep Meadow Press
1987 • 127 pp. 6 x 9"
Poetry
$13.95 Paper, 978-0-935296-67-9
$25.00 Cloth, 978-0-935296-66-2
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Endorsements:
"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."—Richard Wilbur
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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, a memoir biography With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires, and To Touch the Sky. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry, Barnstone is Distinguished Professor at Indiana University.
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