The James Dickey Reader

ISBN-13: 9780684864358 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str.

James Dickey;Henry Hart

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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Dickey's poems and prose includes choice selections of the author's poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as some early unpublished poetry and excerpts from his unfinished novel Crux.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.

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Pat Conroy Who wrote better than James Dickey in this century? I think he was in a league of his own. His poems are simply better than anyone else's poetry. His criticism cuts to the bone. His novels sizzle when they hit the fire. This book captures the untellable genius of James Dickey. Pick it up and on any page you get perfection and the most breathlessly fully alive writing ever done by an American.

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Contents

Introduction

Poetry

Introduction

From Into the Stone

The Vegetable King

The Performance

The Other

Walking on Water

Into the Stone

From Drowning with Others

The Lifeguard

The Heaven of Animals

A Birth

Fog Envelops the Animals

Between Two Prisoners

Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek

The Hospital Window

From Helmets

At Darien Bridge

Chenille

Springer Mountain

Cherrylog Road

The Scarred Girl

From Buckdancer's Choice

The Firebombing

Buckdancer's Choice

Pursuit from Under

Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony

The Fiend

From Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems

Falling

The Sheep Child

Power and Light

Adultery

Encounter in the Cage Country

May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church

From The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy

The Eye-Beaters

From The Zodiac

The Zodiac (Section I, excerpt; Section XII)

From The Strength of Fields

The Strength of Fields

The Voyage of the Needle

From Puella

Deborah Burning a Doll Made of House-wood

Deborah and Deirdre as Drunk Bridesmaids Foot-racing at Daybreak

From The Eagle's Mile

Daughter

The Olympian

For a Time and Place

Early Poems

The Shark at the Window

Joel Cahill Dead

The Wish to Be Buried Where One Has Made Love

The Wheelchair Drunk

Reading Genesis to a Blind Child

Fiction

From Deliverance

"September 15th" (excerpt)

From Alnilam

Frank Cahill's Journey to Peckover Army Air Corps Base (excerpt)

Peckover Graduation Ceremony (excerpt)

From To the White Sea

The Firebombing of Tokyo (excerpt)

Muldrow's First Murder (excerpt)

From Crux (unpublished novel)

Journey to War

Criticism

From Babel to Byzantium: Poets & Poetry Now

Barnstorming for Poetry

Notes on the Decline of Outrage

Robert Frost

Marianne Moore

From Sorties

The Self as Agent

Metaphor as Pure Adventure

Spinning the Crystal Ball

The Greatest American Poet: Roethke

From Night Hurdling

The Water-Bug's Mittens: Ezra Pound: What We Can Use

The G.I. Can of Beets, the Fox in the Wave, and the Hammers over Open Ground

Bare Bones: Afterword to a Film

Chronology