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Alnilam by James Dickey

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Author Biography

Name: James Dickey
Birth Date: February 2, 1923
Death Date: January 19, 1997
Place of Birth: Buckhead, Georgia, United States of America
Place of Death: Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, novelist

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Biography of James (Lafayette) Dickey
10824 words, approx. 36.1 pages
In what he calls a "snapshot" of James Dickey in The Writer's Voice (1973), George Garrett has written, "Legends, myths, fables and fabliaux, anecdotes, quotations from, hard and funny sayings, true and false, wheel and flock about him, a shrill invisibl...
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Biography of James Dickey
9094 words, approx. 30.3 pages
Glory came early in James Dickey's career: six years after his first collection appeared in Poets of Today VII (1960), he won the 1966 National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965); five years after that, his novel Deliverance (1970) and its movie v...
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Biography of James (Lafayette) Dickey
8348 words, approx. 27.8 pages
James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in order to live as fully as possible. Immersed in death encounters, he formulated a poetic vision dramatizing his heightened sense of renewal to experience, to life. At the same tim...
 


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The Washington Post
James Dickey's Celestial Navigations; The Author, Turning To Flight & Philosophy In His Novel `Alnilam'
05/24/1987: 3,030 words, approx. 10 pages
The belly of James Dickey swings gently to and fro, keeping time with his measured stride inside the black mesh fabric of his sleeveless shirt, a lattice of elastic diamonds, soft and pink. When Dickey comes to rest, gesturing company to do likewise,...


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Alnilam by James Dickey

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