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Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations

Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations

Ferry, David

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0226244792
ISBN13: 9780226244792
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jun 15 1993
Pages: 69
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Hailed as one of the best contemporary poets writing in the English language, David Ferry meditates unsentimentally, in many of these powerful and often wrenching poems, on the dispossession of people afflicted by madness, homelessness, or other forms of wildness. The voices in all the poems in this book demonstrate how, for each of us, there is no certain dwelling place.

David Ferry's Dwelling Places is a marvelous, extremely moving book, distinguished by Ferry's characteristic formal virtuosity, extraordinarily fresh and 'inner' translations, and a kind of driven anguished rage at both the social conditions in which human beings have to live and the mysteriously unchangeable tragedies of individual human lives. The translations amplify and deepen the contemporary scenes. I feel that in the future this will be perceived as a great book.-Frank Bidart

Not until I had read Dwelling Places several times did I see how ingeniously resourceful, ambitious, and admirably modest a book David Ferry has made.-Boston Review

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