Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets) - Hardcover

Ferry, David

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9780226244860: Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets)

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ISBN 10: 0226244865 ISBN 13: 9780226244860

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

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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

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About the Author:

David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1924. He is the author of a number of books of poetry and has translated several works from classical languages. Currently he is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley College, as well as a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Suffolk University.

His book of new and selected poems and translations, Of No Country I Know, published in 1999 by the University of Chicago Press, received the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.

In 2011 he was awarded the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. Other awards include the Sixtieth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

He won the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry for Bewilderment.

Review:

Abyss
The Blind People
Multas Per Gentes
About Sylvia's Stories And Teaching
After Spotsylvania Court House
An Alphabet
At A Bar
At Lake Hopatcong
At The Bus Stop; Eurydice
At The Hospital (1)
At The Hospital (2)
Aubade
Augury
An Autumn Afternoon
Backyard Dog
The Beach At Evening
The Bird
By The Sea Shore
Caprimulgidae
The Chair
Character Analysis Of Mary In Earlier Life
A Charm
Civilization And Its Discontents
Committee
Counterpart
Courtesy
The Crippled Girl, The Rose
Cythera
Descriptive
Dives
Dog And Fox
Down By The River
Ellery Street
The Embarkation For Cythera
Envoi (1)
Envoi (2)
Epigram
Evening News 1
Evening News 2
A Farewell
First Night
Garden Dog
Goodnight
Graveyard
The Guest Ellen At The Supper For Street People
Harvesters Resting; After Millet
Horses
In Eden
In The Dark
In The Garden
Johnson On Pope; From The Lives Of The Poets
The Late-hour Poem
Learning From History
The License Plate
Little Vietnam Futurist Poem
Mary In Old Age: 1. Mary's House
Mary In Old Age: 2. Mary's Room At The Nursing Home
Mary In Old Age: 3. The Tower Of Babel
Mary In Old Age: 4. Of Others Who Were There
Mary In Old Age: 5. Mary Interpreter
Mary In Old Age: 6. Matthew 12: 43-45
A Morning Song
Movie Star Peter At The Supper For Street People
Musings Of Mind And Body
My Mother's Dying
Name
A Night-time River Road
Nocturnal
Of Rhyme
Old People
On A Poem By Arthur R. Gold
On A Sunday Morning
On Haystack Mountain
On The Way To The Island
Out At Lanesville
Out In The Cold
Photographs From A Book: Six Poems
Poems Of Marianne Moore
The Proselyte
Rereading Old Writing
Roof
Sculptures By Dimitri Hadzi
Seen Through A Window
Several Voices
The Soldier
Strabo Reading Megasthenes
Table Talk
A Telephone Call
That Evening At Dinner
To Sally
A Tomb At Tarquinia
The Unawkward Singers
The Waiting
A Walk In The Woods
Wallenda
What It Does
What's Playing Tonight
Wolf Woman
A Young Woman
Roman Elegy 10
Roman Elegy 8
In Balance
Unos Caballos
An Die Parzen
Halfte Des Lebens
Mnemosyne
My Harvest
She Speaks Across The Years
The Lesson
La Faradola Dei Fanciulli
News From Mount Amiata
Of Violets
Janus
Eclogue 5. Menalcas, Mopsus
Eclogue 9
Epistles: I. 13. To Vinnius Asina
Epistles: Ii, 2
Odes I, 11. To Leuconoe
Odes I, 14. To The Republic
Odes I, 17. To Tyndaris
Odes I, 18. To Varus
Odes I, 24. To Virgil
Odes I, 32. To His Lyre
Odes I, 34. Of The God's Power
Odes I, 37. To Cleopatra
Odes I, 4. To Sestius
Autumn
Herbsttag
Song Of The Drunkard
Quand Vous Serez Bien Vieille
Levis Exsurgit Zephirus
Prayer To The Gods Of The Night
Shubshi-meshre-shakkan: Hymn
Shubshi-meshre-shakkan: Narrative
Tablet 7
Tablet 8
When We Were Children
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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