December 1: Ferry Reading in Boston

Eminent poet and translator David Ferry will read this Thursday, December 1, at 7:00 p.m. at Suffolk University’s Modern Theater, 525 Washington Street, downtown Boston. Ferry’s most recent award is the 2011 Ruth B. Lilly Prize, from the Poetry Foundation, for “lifetime career achievement.” The most recent book of his poems is Of No Country I Know, New and Selected Poems and Translations. His new collection of poems, Bewilderment, will be published in 2012. His books of translation include Gilgamesh, A New Rendering in English Verse; the Odes of Horace; the Epistles of Horace; the Eclogues of Virgil; and the Georgics of Virgil. A Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University, he is currently translating the Aeneid of Virgil.