–David Ferry, Poetry, January 2012

The Rumpus meditates on the difference between translations and poems upon reading David Ferry’s National Book Award-winning Bewilderment. Ferry seems to be doing the same above, in a poem from the collection. Find a selection of his poems in our January 2012 issue and more in our July/August 2011 issue on the occasion of his winning the 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize .