The James Dickey Reader
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (517 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684864355 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This collection of James Dickey's poems and prose includes choice selections of the author's poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as some early unpublished poetry and excerpts from his unfinished novel Crux. Organized chronologically by genre, this is the definitive collection of works by one of the twentieth century's most important talents.
His Poetry Is The Real Thing First off, as in all my reviews of Dickey's work, or work on Dickey's work: a disclaimer. I knew Dickey from 1991 until his death, and thus my opinion of him must be biased in some way, though I'm not sure in which direction, if any. I simply consider him now, after his death, as I did before our meeting in 1991 and our many phone conversations following our meeting, as the last great poet in America. Hart has done a good job of editing and my hat, if I had one on at the moment, would be off to him.-I don't want to belabor the point. Either you get great poetry or you don't. Hart's selection of t. Three Stars george My wife said it's good reading.
From Publishers Weekly Brassy, raw and, at times, enduringly powerful, the poetry of James Dickey (1923-1997) made big waves in the 1960s and '70s; he's now best known for his first novel, Deliverance (1970), a tale of male trauma and violence in the Georgia wilderness and the source of John Boorman's 1972 film. But Dickey's best poems make his frustrations, and his mythographic ambitions, sources of memorably tormented potency. After Dickey's son's memoir, Summer of Deliverance, has darkened the South Carolina poet's image, this generous compilation does much to bolster his literary prominence. Dickey's anguished celebrations of destructive extremes, hard men and hard drinking can make his work seem dated, even embarrassing ("God man hunter artist father/ Be with me. Dickey's other productions include the mammoth novel Alnilam (1987) and several books of critici