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Tony
Barnstone, B.A., U.C. Santa Cruz; M.A., Ph.D., U.C.
Berkeley, is Professor of creative writing and
English. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in
Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone lived for years in
Greece, Spain, Kenya and China before taking his Masters
in English and Creative Writing and his Ph.D. in English
Literature at UC Berkeley. He wrote his dissertation on William Carlos
Williams and teaches creative writing and twentieth
century American literature, in addition to Asian and Asian
American literature. He often pairs
his creative writing classes with courses in Computer
Art, 3-D design
or printmaking. His poetry, translations, essays on
poetics, and fiction have appeared in dozens of American
literary journals, from APR to Agni. He has won a
National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a
California Arts Council Poetry Fellowship, as well as poetry
awards from the Pushcart Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Randall
Jarrell Poetry Prize, The Sow's Ear Poetry Contest, the
Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize, the National Poetry
Competition (Chester H. Jones Foundation), the Pablo
Neruda Prize in Poetry, the Cecil Hemley Award, and the
Poetry Society of America.
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Poetry
His first book of poetry,
Impure, a
finalist for the Walt Whitman Prize of the Academy of
American Poets, the National Poetry Series Prize, and
other national literary competitions, appeared with the
University Press of Florida in June of 1999. He is also the
author of a chapbook of poems,
Naked Magic, (Main Street Rag,
2002). His second book of poems,
Sad Jazz:
Sonnets, appeared in 2005 with Sheep Meadow
Press. His most recent book of poems, The Golem
of Los Angeles, won the Benjamin Saltman Award in
Poetry and was published in late 2007 by Red Hen Press. His new projects
are
Tongue of War, a book of dramatic monologues
set in the Pacific during the Second World War and Pulp
Sonnets, a collection of poems based upon classic pulp
fiction, comic books, and horror, film noir and sci-fi
movies.
Translation
His books of translation include
Chinese Erotic Poems (Everyman Press, 2007),
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor Books,
2005),
The Art of
Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala
Publications, Inc., 1996),
Out of the Howling Storm: The
New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 1993),
and
Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Selected Poems of Wang Wei
(University Press of New England, 1991).
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For links to
Tony's sample poems, interviews, articles, translated
poems, fiction, and for information about his sister (Aliki),
brother (Robert), father (Willis) and Mother (Elli), see their
website,
www.barnstone.com
Tony also maintains the Web
Companion to the Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
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Links
Tony's website
is
http://www.barnstone.com.
Read his article
"Letters from Dead Friends" at the online literary
journal Perihelion.
Read sample poems from
Sad Jazz, Tony's new sequence of 115 sonnets.
Read "Commandments,"
from Impure, Tony Barnstone's new book of poetry.
Read his poetry featured at
The Drunken Boat
Read his poetry at
Exquisite Corpse
Read a piece of Tony's verse fiction published at
The Pedestal Magazine
Find out what he has to say about his work in an
interview with him at amazon.com, or read his new
interview at
The Drunken Boat. Read Tony's interview with former
Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky at
Poetry Flash.
Read his article "Technology as Addiction" at
Technology and Culture
Read his translations of Chinese poetry featured at
The Drunken Boat
Also check out Tony's
review of Arthur Sze's The Redshifting Web.
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