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David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 – February 22, 1967) was an American pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
David Russell Ferry (March 5, 1924 – November 5, 2023) was an American poet, translator, and educator. He published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2012 collection Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations.
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…
Nov 11, 2023 · Nov. 11, 2023. David Ferry, a poet and translator whose direct, emotionally resonant work plumbing the chasms between the knowable and the unknowable won him broad praise and honors...
Nov 13, 2023 · Ferry saw few boundaries between his vocations. He found poetic inspiration in the classroom as well as the classics, translating Latin and Akkadian works that he would later quote in his original poems and sprinkle across his collections.
Nov 11, 2023 · David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely...
Nov 10, 2023 · He was 99 when he died Sunday in the Brookhaven at Lexington retirement community, where he had gone to live when the pandemic descended — reading poems aloud by phone each day with his daughter,...
When David Ferry, Ph.D. ’55, won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2012 for his collection Bewilderment at 88, he was almost 30 years the elder of the four other nominees. Three years after that award, he is now finishing his translation of the Aeneid.
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.
Jan 9, 2013 · David Ferry, who, at the age of eighty-eight, has just won the National Book Award for poetry, is a special kind of thief. He carries us to places we can’t possibly visit, from the Mesopotamia...
