Author : David Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226244877
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Book Synopsis Of No Country I Know by : David Ferry
Download or read book Of No Country I Know written by David Ferry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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