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Ferry, David, 1924-2023

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

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

xvii, 293 pages ; 23 cm.

Represents David Ferry's poetry and his translations of other poems by Holderlin, Goethe, Montale, Catullus, a Babylonian hymn, Ronsard, Guillen, Baudelaire, Rilke, Goliardic, Gilgamesh, the odes of Horace, the eclogues of Virgil, and two epistles of Horace.

Phoenix poets

Phoenix poets.

Latin poetry -- Translations into English.

Rome -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293).

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

Foreword / Alan Shapiro -- What's Playing Tonight -- Character Analysis of Mary in Earlier Life -- At Lake Hopatcong -- Wolf Woman -- Little Vietnam Futurist Poem -- Song of the Drunkard -- Movie Star Peter at the Supper for Street People -- On a Poem / Arthur R. Gold -- Wallenda -- Backyard Dog -- The License Plate -- An Alphabet -- My Harvest -- An Autumn Afternoon -- Courtesy -- Down by the River -- Halfte des Lebens -- An die Parzen -- Roman Elegy X -- News from Mount Amiata -- About Sylvia's Stories and Teaching -- She Speaks Across the Years -- That Evening at Dinner -- Multas per gentes -- Shubshi-meshre-Shakkan -- Old People -- Janus -- First Night -- The Chair -- The Late-Hour Poem -- The Bird -- The Soldier -- At a Bar -- Out in the Cold -- A Farewell -- In the Dark -- Learning from History -- Augury -- The Embarkation for Cythera -- On the Way to the Island -- Quand vous serez bien vieille -- The Crippled Girl, The Rose.

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