Mexico in My Heart — Barnstone '48 Holiday during the course of research

during the course of research on the 20th Maine

My first reading of the handwritten sermons that McKeen had preached to the first eight Bowdoin students disclosed a man with remarkably clear thoughts about first principle

made decades ago

Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen

Mexico in My Heart — Barnstone '48 Holiday during the course of researchBy Willis Barnstone, Class of 1948 Willis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret