Sad Jazz: Sonnets

Tony Barnstone is the Albert Upton Professor of English at Whittier College and has a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D in English Literature from UC Berkeley His books of poems include Tongue of War From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki BKMK Press, 2009, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry , The Golem of Los Angeles Red Hen Press, 2008, winner, Benjamin Saltman Award Sad Jazz Sonnets Sheep Meadow Press, 2005 and Impure Poems by Tony Barnstone University Press of Florida, 1998 , in addition to the chapbook Naked Magic Main Street Rag He is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary prose and an editor of literary textbooks His books in these areas include 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 UP of New England, 1991 The Art of Writing Teachings of the Chinese Masters Shambhala, 1996 and the textbooks Literatures of Asia Africa and Latin America, Literatures of Asia, and Literatures of the Middle East all from Prentice Hall Publishers Among his awards are a fellowship from the NEA, a fellowship from the California Arts Council, a Pushcart Prize in Poetry, and 1st place in in the 2008 Strokestown International Poetry Prize.He is the recipient of many national poetry prizes and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council Born in Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Bloomington, Indiana, Barnstone has lived in Greece, Spain, Kenya and China His website is barnstone