Books in the Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP) series

Brings together the poems/translations of American poet, David Ferry. The text includes his books "Strangers" and "Dwelling Places", selections from "On the Way to the Island" and selections from his translations of the Babylonian epic "Gilgamesh", the "Odes of Horace" and Virgil's "Eclogues".

The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where the author considers the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable solitude.

A book of poems. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as the poet's concerns with catastrophe and trauma, it wrestles with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11.

A collection of eight sequences and sixteen individual poems, which leap from the public realm of urban decay and outsourcing to the intimacies of family life, from a street mime to a haunting dream, from elegy to lyric evocation.

Features poems which suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle.

A collection of poems that focus on feelings of intimacy and familiarity.

The author has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against - and with - his genius for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which gives him access to an immense variety of feeling.

A book of poems that takes us on a journey through wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities.