Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Spanish Edition) (33 page)
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Authors: Antonio Machado
Willis Barnstone was born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College, Columbia, and Yale. He taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949–1951), 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
Modern European Poetry
(Bantam, 1967),
The Other Bible
(HarperCollins, 1984), a memoir-biography
With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires
(Illinois, 1993),
The Secret Reader: 501 Sonnets
(New England, 1996), and
To Touch the Sky
(New Directions, 1999). His translation
The New Covenant: The Four Gospels and Apocalypse
was published by Riverhead Books in 2002.
His
Life Watch
(poems) appeared with BOA Editions, and
The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds,
co-edited with Marvin Meyer, with Shambhala, both in 2003. A Guggenheim Fellow (for research on Antonio Machado), he has three Book-of-the-Month Club Selections and numerous awards, including the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, the W.H. Auden Award from the New York State Council on the Arts, and a
PEN
/Book-of-the-Month Club Special Citation for Translation. Barnstone is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
POETRY
Poems of Exchange 1951
From This White Island 1960
Antijournal 1969
A Day in the Country (for children) 1971
New Faces of China 1973
China Poems 1976
Overheard 1979
A Snow Salmon Reached the Andes Lake 1980
Ten Gospels & a Nightingale 1981
The Alphabet of Night 1984
Five A.M. in Beijing 1987
Funny Ways of Staying Alive 1993
The Secret Reader • 501 Sonnets 1996
Algebra of Night: New & Selected Poems (1948-98) 1999
Life Watch 2003
TRANSLATIONS
Eighty Poems of Antonio Machado 1959
The Other Alexander by Margarita Liberaki 1959
Greek Lyric Poetry 1961
Physiologus Theobaldi Episcopi - Bishop Theobald’s Bestiary, 1964
Sappho: Poems in the Original Greek with a Translation 1965
The Poems of Saint John of the Cross 1968
The Song of Songs 1970
The Poems of Mao Tse-Tung (with Ko Ching-Po) 1972
My Voice Because of You: Pedro Salinas 1976
The Unknown Light: Poems of Fray Luis de León 1979
A Bird of Paper: Poems of Vicente Aleixandre 1982
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei (with Tony Barnstone & Xu Haixin) 1991
Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet 1993
Poems of Sappho: a New Translation 1999
To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light 1999
The Apocalypse (The Book of Revelation) 2000
The New Covenant: Four Gospels and the Apocalypse 2002
Border of a Dream: The Poems of Antonio Machado 2004
The Sonnets of Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke 2004
LITERARY CRITICISM
The Poetics of Ecstasy: From Sappho to Borges 1983
The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice 1993
MEMOIRS
With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires 1993
Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain: A European Memoir (1948-1953) 1995
We Jews and Blacks, 2004
ANTHOLOGIES / EDITIONS
Modern European Poetry 1967
Spanish Poetry from Its Beginnings through the Nineteenth Century 1970
Eighteen Texts: Contemporary Greek Authors (with Edmund Keeley) 1973
The New Spoon River by Edgar Lee Masters 1973
Concrete Poetry: A World View (with Mary Ellen Solt) 1974
A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (with Aliki Barnstone) 1980
Borges at Eighty: Conversations 1982
The Other Bible: Ancient Alternative Scriptures 1984
Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (with Tony Barnstone) 1999
The Gnostic Bible (with Marvin Meyer) 2003
A Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos
A la manera de Juan de Mairena
A un viejo y distinguido señor
“Al borde del sendero un día nos sentamos”
“Algunos lienzos del recuerdo”
“Ante el pálido lienzo de la tarde”
Apuntes, parábolas, provierbos y cantares
“De mar a mar entre los dos la guerra”
“Desgarrada la nube; el arco iris”
Doce poetas que pudieron existir
El poeta recuerda las tierras de Soria
“En estos campos de la tierra mía”
“En medio de la plaza y sobre tosca piedra”
“Eres tú, Guadarrama, viejo amigo”
“Es una forma juvenil que un día”
“Es una tarde cenicienta y mustia”
Glosando a Ronsard y otras rimas
“Las ascuas de un crepúsculo morado”
Llanto de las virtudes y coplas por la muerte de Don Guido
“¿Mi amor?...¿Recuerdas, dime”
Proverbios y cantares
(El ojo que ves no es)
Proverbios y cantares
(Nunca perseguí la gloria)
“Señor, ya me arrancaste lo que yo más quería”
Tres cantares enviados a Unamuno en 1913
Últimas lamentaciones de Abel Martín
“Y era el demonio de mi sueño”
“Y la de morir contigo el mundo mago”
Abel Martín’s Last Lamentations
“And he was the demon of my dream”
“Before the pale canvas of the afternoon”
“The clock was striking twelve”
“The corroded and greenish hull”
The Death of the Wounded Child
“The fire coals of a violet twilight”
“From sea to sea between us is the war”
“From the doorsill of a dream”
Glossing Ronsard and Other Rhymes
“Guadarrama, is it you, old friend?”
“Here in the fields of my homeland”
“I dreamt you were guiding me”
In the Manner of Juan de Mairena
“It is an ashen and shabby evening”
“A labyrinth of narrow streets”
Lament for His Virtues and Verses, on the Death of Don Guido
“Last night while I was sleeping”
“Lord, now what I loved most you tore from me”
“Moss is growing in the shadowy plaza”
“My love? Tell me, do you remember”
Notes, Parables, Proverbs and Songs
“One day we sat down by the road”
“Over coarse stone in the middle of the square”
“Perhaps the hand in dreaming”
“The plaza and the burning orange trees”
The Poet Recalls the Lands of Soria
Proverbs and Songs
(I never looked for glory)
Proverbs and Songs
(The eye you see is not)
Songs
(By the flowering sierra)
Songs
(Green parrot)
“The thousand waters of April”
Three Songs Sent to Unamuno in 1913
To an Old and Distinguished Gentleman
To Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos
Twelve Poets Who Might Have Existed
“Will the spellbound world die with you”
