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David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1924. He completed his education at Amherst College and Harvard University, and served as a sergeant in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946. Ferry’s books of poetry and translation are Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2012); The Georgics of ...
I. Hearing David Ferry’s Poem “The Proselyte,” Spring 2013, Boston. The first time I saw David Ferry was in March 2013, at a bar, in Boston, where he was among the poets slated to read that night. I had come for the others, especially the friends I’d followed from the convention center bar, across Boylan Street.
31 mag 2021 · Accepting the National Book Award for his 2012 collection Bewilderment, an 88-year old David Ferry quipped that he’d been awarded a “preposterous pre-posthumous” prize. The humility is typical, but the intensity of his wordplay signals how much is at stake for Ferry in acknowledging a life spent making lines. Ferry’s first book of verse, On
Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry.To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence ...
23 dic 2022 · But some believe that there was more to Ferrie than met the eye — and that he helped assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1963. Described as “brilliant,” a “paradox,” and a “psycho,” by those who crossed his path, Ferrie held deeply anti-communistic views and spoke publicly about his disdain for Kennedy. He was questioned by the FBI ...
5 nov 2023 · David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1924. He is the author of a number of books of poetry and has translated several works from classical languages. Currently he is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley College, as well as a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Boston University and a distinguished visiting scholar at Suffolk ...
David Ferry (1924–2023) was a profoundly influential poet and translator whose channeling of the ancient world reanimated some of the greatest classics of Western and Middle Eastern poetry. His final book, Some Things I Said, coedited by his close friend George Kalogeris and his children, Elizabeth and Stephen Ferry, reached his hands just days before he died at ninety-nine on November 5 ...
