Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
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David Ferry's Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations provides a wonderful gathering of the work of one of the great American poetic voices of the twentieth century. It brings together his new poems and translations, collected here for the first time; his books Strangers and Dwelling Places in their entirety; selections from his first book, On the Way to the Island; and selections from his celebrated translations of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, the Odes of Horace, and of Virgil's Eclogues. This is Ferry's fullest and most resonant book, demonstrating the depth and breadth of forty years of a life in poetry. "Though Ferry is perhaps best known for his eloquent translations of Horace and Virgil, "Of No Country I Know" demonstrates that he deserves acclaim for his own poetry as well."--Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times Book Review
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226244873
ISBN13:9780226244877
Release Date:November 1999
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:310 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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Wonderful Poet!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I am just now reading David Ferry's new book--we have a great poet among us is all I can say. His poems are contemplative subtly intricate and moving. He seems to get better and better. His translations (I admire all of his translations from the Latin Poets but he has a wonderful one from Rilke) at once provide access to the original but are also testimony to his own creativity. "Read Slowly!" as one of his recent poems suggests--the rewards are never ending.
Brilliant!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
David Ferry is a remarkable poet. Like Anne Carson he finds inspiration in ancient texts and through the processes of translation develops a poetic form that is nuanced, allusive, attentive to life and liveliness but not in the least 'heavy', 'irrelevant' or 'too poetic' (all complaints I've heard from high school students when teaching poetry). he's simply brilliant.
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