Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations

by David Ferry

Book Overview

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...

• 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

Wonderful Poet!

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!

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.