 In 2000, Ferry’s book of new and selected poems and translations, entitled "Of No Country I Know", received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress (for the best work of poetry for the previous two years).He is the author of a critically praised verse rendering of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.The poet W. S. Merwin has described Ferry's work as having an "assured quiet tone" that communicates "complexities of feeling with unfailing proportion and grace."