Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her books of poems are Wild With It (2002), a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book, Madly in Love (1997), Windows in Providence (1981), and The Real Tin Flower (which was introduced by Anne Sexton and was published in 1968, when she was twelve years old). She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (1980; second edition, 1992), The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (1997), The Shambhala Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Poetry (1999; 2003), and she introduced and wrote the readers’ notes for H.D.’s Trilogy (1997). She has recorded a collaborative CD with musician Frank Haney. Her translation of C.P. Cavafy’s collected poems and a study of the development of Emily Dickinson’s poetry are forthcoming.
The daughter of poet, Willis Barnstone, and painter, Elli Tzalopoulou-Barnstone, Aliki was raised with her two brothers, Robert and Tony, in Bloomington, Indiana and Brandon, Vermont; the family traveled widely, especially to Greece, the country of her mother. Barnstone has also traveled to Spain, Holland, Italy, Portugal, England, Turkey, Mexico, Guatemala, Hong Kong, China, Tibet, Nepal, and Burma.