Of no country I know : new and selected poems and translations / David Ferry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferry, David.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--Translations into English.

Latin poetry.

Rome--Poetry.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Ferry, David--Translations into English.

Local Subjects:

Ferry, David--Translations into English.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 293 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Language Note:

Chiefly poetry in English; some selections from Horace and Virgil translated from Latin into English.

Summary:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293).

ISBN:

0226244865

0226244873

OCLC:

40990145