Tony Barnstone's Reviews
Reviews of Tony’s Work
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Jan.19.2010
Published by The Sop
I had been studying the Robert Fagles translation of The Iliad for almost a year when Tony Barnstone`s Tongue of War arrived in the mail. There are no accidents. By the time I had...
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Mar.29.2007
Published by Mike Snider’s Formal Blog at the Sonnetarium
"Antonyms" is the most technically interesting of the death/breath poems. It's built like Herbert's "Easter Wings," starting with a pair of four feet per line...
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Feb.24.2000
Published by Orange County Weekly
Beneath the electric bill, discarded beer caps and spilled ashtray in the disaster I call my car, Impure-a collection of poetry by Whittier College prof and local poet Tony...
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About Tony
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, into a very unusual family. My father, Willis Barnstone, was a young professor at Wesleyan University at that time. When I was two, we left Connecticut to live in Spain on a Guggenheim Fellowship my father had been...