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  • Bewilderment

    New Poems and Translations

    by David Ferry ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. "This is one of the great books of poetry of this young century."—Dan Chiasson, The New YorkerTo 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 ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by David Ferry ...
    This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry’s life: a complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius, rendering Virgil’s formal, metrical lines into an English that ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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    Greenwood

    by Michael Christie ...
    Narrated by Raven Dauda, David Ferry, Christo Graham, Amy Matysio ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 30 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel • Shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize • Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Canada Reads 2023 Contender • One of CBC Books' Best Canadian Fiction of the YearFrom the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Georgics of Virgil

    A Translation

    by David Ferry ...
    "David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day." —Anthony Day, Los Angeles TimesJohn Dryden called Virgil's Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., "the best poem by the best poet." The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs, maybe the greatest we have, of ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Odes of Horace

    A Translation

    by Horace, David Ferry ...
    David Ferry, the acclaimed poet and translator of Gilgamesh, has made an inspired translation of the complete Odes of Horace, one that conveys the wit, ardor and sublimity of the original with a music of all its own.The Latin poet Horace is, along with his friend Virgil, the most celebrated of the poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and, with Virgil, the most influential. These marvelously ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Raritan on War

    An Anthology

    by C. Felix Amerasinghe, Andrew J. Bacevich, Victoria De Grazia, Tamas Dobozy, David Ferry, M. Fortuna, Cai Guo-Qiang, Emma Dodge Hanson, Jochen Hellbeck, Karl Kirchwey, Ray Klimek, Peter LaBier, Patrick Lawrence, d. mark levitt, Michael Miller, Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Elizabeth D. Samet, Sherod Santos, Robert Westbrook ...
    Series series Raritan Skiff Books
    We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directly ... Read more

    $33.49 CAD

  • Gilgamesh

    A New Rendering in English Verse

    by David Ferry ...
    "There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousand descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book WorldA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistThis is a new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Epistles of Horace

    A Translation

    by Horace ...
    Translated by David Ferry ...
    My aim is to take familiar things and makePoetry of them, and do it in such a wayThat it looks as if it was as easy as could beFor anybody to do it . . . the power of makingA perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much.--from "The Art of Poetry"When David Ferry's translation of The Odes of Horace appeared in 1997, Bernard Knox, writing in The New York Review of Books, called it "a Hor... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    River Thieves

    by Michael Crummey ...
    Narrated by David Ferry ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 31 min

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, naval officer David Buchan arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contact with the Beothuk or "Red Indians," the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland facing extinction. When Buchan approaches the area's most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice and assistance, he enters a shadowy world of allegiances and old grudges that he ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    "Until You Are Dead"

    The Wrongful Conviction of Steven Truscott

    by Julian Sher ...
    Narrated by David Ferry ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 22 min

    “Talk to anyone you find, investigate wherever things lead you. I know I'm innocent and I’m not afraid of what you’ll turn up.” — Steven Truscott to Julian Sher“Until You Are Dead” chronicles the loss of Canada’s innocence. Prior to June 11, 1959, Canadian parents could allow their children to play outdoors, unsupervised, in places children traditionally love: schoolyards, fields and nearby ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Copenhagen Conspiracy

    by David Ferry ...
    At the close of the nineteenth century, we stood on the threshold of one of the greatest periods of science, in which the entire world and understanding of science would be shaken to the core and greatly modified. This explosion of knowledge led ultimately to that same information revolution that we live in today. Planck and Einstein showed that light was not continuous but made of small ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Semiconductor Transport

    by David Ferry ...
    The information revolution would have been radically different, or impossible, without the use of the materials known generically as semiconductors. The properties of these materials, particularly the potential for doping with impurities to create transistors and diodes and controlling the local potential by gates, are essential for microelectronics.Semiconductor Transport is an introductory text ... Read more

    $159.39 CAD