https://poets.org/poet/david-ferry

David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1924. He completed his education at Amherst College and Harvard University, and served as a sergeant in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946.

Ferry’s books of poetry and translation are Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 2012); The Georgics of Virgil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006); His Epistles of Horace: A Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001); Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 1999); The Eclogues of Virgil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999); The Odes of Horace: A Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998); Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations (University of Chicago Press, 1993); Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992); Strangers: A Book of Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1983); On the Way to the Island (Wesleyan University Press, 1960); and The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth’s Major Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1959).

Ferry was the recipient of the 2012 National Book Award for Bewilderment. Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Bingham Poetry Prize from Boston Book Review, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award and the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Ferry’s other awards include the Sixtieth Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, the Teasdale Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Ingram-Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize from AGNI magazine.

In 1998, Ferry was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He held the title of Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley College.

David Ferry died on November 5, 2023.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/david-ferry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferry_(poet)

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22david+ferry%22+books&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj-8Kvg5LSCAxW_MGIAHYvaABMQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=%22david+ferry%22+books&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoFCAAQgAQ6BwgAEBgQgAQ6BwgAEIoFEEM6BAgAEB46BggAEAgQHlCXBljyNGCNN2gAcAB4AIABUIgBpwWSAQIxMpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=ebJLZb7QEL_hiLMPi7WDmAE&bih=880&biw=1920
(some book covers)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-ferry/the-eclogues-of-virgil/
(one Kirkus review)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15385.David_Ferry

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=580505413&q=david+ferry+poet&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjp4zH5LSCAxUinokEHR8QBZoQ0pQJegQIERAB&biw=1920&bih=880&dpr=1
(videos)

But definitely not to be confused that other late David Ferry, the supposed Oswald cohort with the memorable eyebrows in that widely-published photograph.

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

Okay, I didn't remember how the late David Ferrie* spelled his name. (Sorry about that, Chief. You too, 99.)

STILL, after five decades of revisiting and again scrutinizing the case every darned November since, I remain convinced Oswald acted alone (and that Ruby on his own lunged gun-in-hand just impulsively**), even if Oswald DID happen to remember Ferrie from Civil Air Patrol. And Ferrie's eyebrows in that famous photo indeed ARE really over-the-top...but as Wiki delineates, had to be penciled on due to his skin condition. (But he sure could have more carefully applied the mascara, doncha think?)

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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* Died in New Orleans on Wednesday, February 22, 1967, four days after physicist (and now Hollywood hero) Robert Oppenheimer expired the previous Saturday.
** That is, that he hustled by the sidewalk cop(s?) onscene and down the police station HQ garage ramp without the intention of doing anything but watch another vignette of that unfolding, weekend-long tableau in Dallas...until the always-gun-toting nightclub impresario was surprised to learn how close he got to the prisoner transfer. (If Ruby HAD been working at ANYONE'S behest, Ruby would SURELY have positioned himself sooner than a mere 15 seconds before the cuffed Oswald was escorted in front of the subterranean assemblage of lawmen and media types.)
============Wiki entry, with a photo of the normal-looking Ferrie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferrie