Bewilderment
New Poems and Translations
by David Ferry

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• ISBN: 9780226244884 (0226244881)
• Author: David Ferry
• Genres: poetry
• Release date: September 14, 2012
• Format: paperback, 115 pages
• Awards: National Book Award for Poetry (2012), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Poetry (2012)
• Language: english
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

About The Book

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 and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry 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. His vocal phrasing thus becomes an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry. Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry’s use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it’s like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption.     

Ferry’s translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them. From Bewilderment:

October

The day was hot, and entirely breathless, so

The remarkably quiet remarkably steady leaf fall

Seemed as if it had no cause at all.

The ticking sound of falling leaves was like

The ticking sound of gentle rainfall as

They gently fell on leaves already fallen,

Or as, when as they passed them in their falling,

Now and again it happened that one of them touched

One or another leaf as yet not falling,

Still clinging to the idea of being summer:

As if the leaves that were falling, but not the day,

Had read, and understood, the calendar.

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