Tony Barnstone

Tony Barnstone is an American poet, translator, and editor. He is the son of poet Willis Barnstone and artist Elli Barnstone.[1] Barnstone earned a Ph.D. at University of California-Berkeley under the direction of poets Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass.[2] Barnstone currently teaches English and Environmental Studies at Whittier College.

Books

Tony Barnstone's notable books of poetry include Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (2009), winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry, the Grand Prize of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, the Independent Publisher Book Award (Silver), the Poets Prize, and fellowships from the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012 the duo Genuine Brandish released Tokyo's Burning: WWII Songs, which is an album based on Tongue of War. Barnstone collaborated with Genuine Brandish on the album’s lyrics and arrangements.[2]

Barnstone's other poetry titles include: Pulp Sonnets (2015), Beast in the Apartment (2013), The Golem of Los Angeles (2008), which won the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry, Sad Jazz: Sonnets (2005), and Impure (1999). Impure was a finalist for both the Walt Whitman Prize and the National Poetry Series.

Barnstone’s poetry has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish.[1]

Barnstone's translations include Mother is a Bird: Sonnets by a Yi Poet, poems and Illustrations by Jidi Majia. Co-translated into English by Tony Barnstone and Ming Di. Translated into Yi by Heire Zihan (2017), River Merchant's Wife (2013), Chinese Erotic Poems (2007), The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (2005), The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (1996), Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (1993) and Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Selected Poems of Wang Wei (1992).[3][4]

Barnstone has published expansive college textbooks on world literature. With Willis Barnstone as his co-editor, he edited and published Literatures of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Prentice Hall 1999), which explores Asian literature from the Vedic period (1500 to 200 B.C.) to Haruki Murakami (1940-). The book also covers African literature from The Shipwrecked Sailor (2040 B.C.) to Mohamed Mrabet (1940-). Selections from the Sub-Sahara explore "oral creation myths" to modern day fiction and poetry by Ben Okri, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, J.M.Coetzee, Mia Couto, and Dambudzo Marechera. The teachings on the literature of the Americas spans from Pre-Columbian era poems in Quechuan languages to writings by 20th century figures including Derek Walcott, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, V. S. Naipaul and Giannina Braschi.[5] Other textbooks include The Literatures of Asia (2002) and The Literatures of the Middle East (2002), the latter co-edited with Willis Barnstone.

With Michelle Mitchell-Foust he co-edited Human and Inhuman Monstrous Verse (2015) and Dead and Undead Poems (2014).[6]

Awards

Barnstone won grants and fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, California Arts Council, Pushcart Prize, Poets' Prize, Sow’s Ear Poetry Contest, Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, Pablo Neruda Prize, The CZP/Rannu Fund Award for Writers of Speculative Literature, and the Cecil Hemley Award.[7][1]

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References
  1. Poets, Academy of American. "About Tony Barnstone | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  2. Foundation, Poetry (2020-05-01). "Tony Barnstone". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  3. Barnstone, Tony; Ping, Chou (2010-03-03). The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-48147-4.
  4. Equi, Elaine; Barnstone, Tony; Barnstone, Willis; Haixin, Xu (1996). "Wang Wei's Moon". Grand Street (58): 157–157. doi:10.2307/25008099. ISSN 0734-5496.
  5. Barnstone, Willis; Barnstone, Tony (1999). Literatures of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: From Antiquity to the Present. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-02-306065-6.
  6. "Literary Orange: Tony Barnstone". literaryorange.org. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
  7. "Tony Barnstone". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-01.
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