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David Russell Ferry (March 5, 1924 – November 5, 2023) was an American poet, translator, and educator. He published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2012 collection Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations.
Learn about David Ferry, an American poet, professor, and translator who won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2012. Explore his translations of Horace, Virgil, and other ancient poets, as well as his own collections of poems.
Nov 11, 2023 · Nov. 11, 2023. David Ferry, a poet and translator whose direct, emotionally resonant work plumbing the chasms between the knowable and the unknowable won him broad praise and honors late in...
David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his...
David Ferry - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Poet and translator, David Ferry, is the recipient of the National Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, among ...
Mar 5, 2020 · In 2013, I corresponded with David Ferry by phone to conduct a wide-ranging interview on his poetry, translations, and literary life. He had just won the National Book Award for Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations and was still at work on Virgil’s Aeneid which he published in 2018.
Feb 26, 2024 · As an influential chair of the English department, David shaped a curriculum and a community where literature, and especially poetry, ranked as a first-class intellectual pursuit as well as a life-enhancing joy.
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