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  • The Complete Poems of Sappho

    Edited by Willis Barnstone ...
    A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translatorSappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Gnostic Bible

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    Edited by Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer ...
    A collection of Gnostic texts spanning centuries, geographical locations, and cultural traditions—“a wonderful achievement” (Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels)Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Essential Gnostic Scriptures

    by Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer ...
    The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Poems of St. John of the Cross

    Saint John’s poetry of love and joy describes the soul’s passage through dark night to final illumination in mystical union with Absolute Being. The allegory the poet uses is that of earthly love, and the poems are strikingly effective on the immediate level of personal experience, quite apart from their theological meanings.Many critics regard the work of Saint John of the Cross (1542-91), the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Poems of Jesus Christ

    The words of Jesus Christ are restored to their original poetic form in this extraordinary volume.Jesus Christ, whose teachings have been on the lips of millions for two millennia, is revealed here as one of the greatest poets of all time. What happened to deafen us to the poetic nature of his words? In migrating from Aramaic speech into written Greek translation, and later into English ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sonnets to Orpheus

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Willis Barnstone ...
    Written during an astonishing outburst of creativity during a period of only two weeks in February 1922, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus is one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. Willis Barnstone brings these striking poems into English with an approach honed through years of work on the philosophy of translation, about which he has written extensively. This dual-language edition ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Borges at Eighty

    Conversations

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first timeThe words of a genius: Borges at Eighty transcends our expectations of ordinary conversation. In these interviews with Barnstone, Dick Cavett, and Alastair Reid, Borges touches on favorite writers (Whitman, Poe, Emerson) and familiar themes — labyrinths, mystic experiences, and death — and always with great, throw-away ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Pocket Sappho

    by Willis Barnstone ...
    Series series Shambhala Pocket Library
    A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place and continue to enchant readers today. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, the passionate elegance of her musings on life and death, loss ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Poets of the Bible

    From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation

    “The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way . . . with evocative simplicity.” —Robert Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature, University of California, BerkeleyThe world’s greatest poetry resides in the Bible, yet these major poets are traditionally rendered into prose. In this pioneering volume of biblical poets translated in English, Willis Barnstone ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    For The Love Of Poetry And Sacred Texts

    by Willis Barnstone ...
    Narrated by Phil Cousineau ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    Willis Barnstone is a poet, translator, biblical scholar, memoirist, anthologist, teacher, and painter. If we are to grasp his greatest contribution to culture over the course of his professional life, we can focus on his role first and foremost as a poet – a lover of words, both his own and those of others, and on what he believes are sacred words from our earliest written records down to present ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    What the Abhidharma Tells Us About How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life

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    Drawing on decades of experience, a psychotherapist and Zen practitioner makes the Abhidharma—the framework of Buddhist psychology—accessible to a general audience for the first time.The Abhidharma, one of the 3 major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, explores the critical juncture of Buddhist thought and the therapeutic aspects of the religion and meditation. It frames the ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Not Knowing

    Discovering a Life of Wonder by Embracing Uncertainty

    by Estelle Frankel ...
    Indie Book Awards WinnerA deeply affirming exploration of the unknown—with meditations and exercises for transforming the fear and uncertainty of ‘not knowing’ into a sense of openness, curiosity, and braveryFor most of us, the unknown is both friend and foe. At times, it can be a source of paralyzing fear and uncertainty. At other times, it can be a starting point for transformation, creativity, ... Read more

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