Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations

by David Ferry

Book Overview

Hailed as one of the best contemporary poets writing in the English language, David Ferry meditates unsentimentally, in many of these powerful and often wrenching poems, on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness, homelessness, or other forms of "wildness." The voices in all the poems in this book demonstrate how, for each of us, there is no certain dwelling place.

"David Ferry's Dwelling Places is a marvelous, extremely moving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226244784
• ISBN13: 9780226244785
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 69 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"