David Ferry

David Ferry is a poet and translator. His most recent book of poems, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press), won the 2012 National Book Award. In 2011 he was awarded the Ruth B. Lilly Prize “for lifetime achievement,” by the Poetry Foundation. His most recent book of translations is The Georgics of Virgil (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). He is currently translating Virgil’s Aeneid. His On This Side of the River: Selected Poems (2012) was published by The Waywiser Press in the U.K. (updated 10/2014)
Ferry’s translation The Odes of Horace was reviewed in AGNI 48 by Christopher Davis.
AGNI has published the following work:
AGNI has published the following translations:
Poetry
To Praise Aelius Lamiaby Horace
Translated from the Latin by David Ferry
Poetry
AGNI 42
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from The Eclogues: First and Ninth Ecloguesby Virgil
Translated from the Latin by David Ferry
Poetry
AGNI 48
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Herbstby Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated from the German by David Ferry
Poetry
AGNI 29 and 30
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