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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 b... Read More about The Aeneid

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 selec... Read More about Raritan on War: An Anthology (Raritan Skiff Books)

On American abstractionist Stephen Rosenthal's austere monochrome paintings New York-based Stephen Rosenthal (born 1935) began to work with ideas of reduction in painting in the late 1960s, through works on unstretched canvas, examined in successive cycles. This publication focuses on his most recen... Read More about Stephen Rosenthal: Constellations

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 selec... Read More about Raritan on War: An Anthology (Raritan Skiff Books)

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 kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.... Read More about Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

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 Horac... Read More about The Epistles of Horace (Bilingual Edition)