The Poetics Of Ecstasy by Willis Barnstone

No one language could contain him.'ÑPeter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education, 'Willis Barnstone has long been a fount of poetic wonder and as his output has grown, it has become a torrent. No one language could contain him., 'Willis Barnstone has long been a fount of poetic wonder and as his output has grown, it has become a torrent. No one language could contain him.'-Peter Monaghan, Chronicle of Higher Education, Willis Barnstone has long been a fount of poetic wonder and as his output has grown, it has become a torrent. And I use the ardor with uttermost emphasis, because it is a word in which Baudelaire, Apollinaire and Barnstone splendidly convene-in ecstasy, in spleen, and in 'the march of dawn.' Barnstone's newest book is an ardent masterpiece of true tendresse.'-Donald Revell, 'Willis Barnstone has long been a fount of poetic wonder and as his output has grown, it has become a torrent. With this beautiful hybrid text, Willis Barnstone illuminates and exalts this love in transformational ardor.

Habibi, Maestro Willis, I salute you again!'-Khaled Mattawa, 'English and French may not, as Wallace Stevens once averred, 'constitute a single language,' but they are without doubt two languages madly in love. Resonant with the poet's passion for a great city, Barnstone's Cafe de l'Aube a Paris tests the veracity of memory with facts of the poet's time in two languages, and he, in turn arrives at dual, inseparable truths, united by his generous heart's reason and harmonized with diverse rhymes. With this remarkable, moving, highly entertaining, and utterly unique self-translation, we now have further proof that Barnstone ranks high among the wizards of song. I believe he has a billion ifrits at his service who can build and unbuild the Tower of Babel in the duration of a wink. 'All of Willis Barnstone's students and admirers, and I consider myself proud to be among them, have suspected him of having magical powers.

The Poetics Of Ecstasy by Willis Barnstone