In Eden by David Ferry

David Ferry is an acclaimed American poet, professor, and translator. Ferry’s translations, which include some of the world’s major works of poetry, are known for their fluency and grace. In addition to his lauded translations of The Odes of Horace and Virgil’s The Eclogues, Georgics, and The Aeneid, among other works, Ferry is a prize-winning poet in his own right. His poetic works include Dwelling Places (1993) and Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems… (more)

David Ferry is an acclaimed American poet, professor, and translator. Ferry’s translations, which include some of the world’s major works of poetry, are known for their fluency and grace. In addition to his lauded translations of The Odes of Horace and Virgil’s The Eclogues, Georgics, and The Aeneid, among other works, Ferry is a prize-winning poet in his own right. His poetic works include Dwelling Places (1993) and Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (1999), which won the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Bingham Poetry Prize, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and was a finalist for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and the New Yorker Book Award. Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (2012), won the National Book Award for Poetry. (Source)

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