Tongue of War by Tony Barnstone
Poetry. This book won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by B. H. Fairchild, who writes in his foreword, TONGUE OF WAR is one of the most distinctive manuscripts I have ever judged for a book prize (And it is a book rather than simply a collection). Barnstone writes that he intends TONGUE OF WAR as a love letter to the World War I generation. But he explains, I see the sequence as a history in verse in which I allow the readers to inhabit multiple and warring perspectives on the War in the Pacific, including the Pearl Harbor attack, Hiroshima, and the conflict in between. Pulitzer-prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler writes that Barnstone has revealed humankind's capacity both for evil and for redemption with a power that few writers have ever achieved.Tony Barnstone holds a master's degree in English and creative writing as well as a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Whittier College. from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in English literature. TONGUE OF WAR: FROM PEARL HARBOR TO NAGASAKI (BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2009), The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008), which earned the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry, Sad Jazz: Sonnets (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005), Impure: Poems (University Press of Florida, 1998), and Naked Magic (Main Street Rag) are among his poetry collections. He is also a well-known Chinese poet and literary prose translator, as well as an editor of literary textbooks. Chinese Erotic Poetry (Everyman, 2007); The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor, 2005); Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry (Wesleyan, 1993); Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei (University Press of New England, 1991); The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters (Shambhala, 1996); and the textbooks Literatures of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (University Press of New England, 1991);
The Grand Award of the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, a Pushcart Prize in poetry, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council are among his honors. Barnstone, who was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, has lived in Greece, Spain, Kenya, and China.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781886157712 |
| ISBN 10 | 1886157715 |
| Title | Tongue of War |
| Author | Tony Barnstone |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City |
| Year published | 2009-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Prizes | Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Poetry) 2010 |
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