Biography EssayGlory 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...
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James Dickey (1923-1997), with his unique vision, often violent imagery, and eccentric style, created for himself a place as an important American poet in the last half of the twentieth century. Altho...
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Writer James Dickey led a remarkable life as poet, novelist, critic, and screenwriter. Winner of the National Book Award for his verse collection Buckdancer's Choice, Dickey attained national and inte...
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[This entry was updated from its original form in Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 52--67.]James Dickey was a visionary poet who sought transformation of the Self in ord...
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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, tru...
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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 se...
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Critical Essay by Paul G. Italia
Perhaps [the patterned brutality in Deliverance] is nothing more than a macabre symmetry, a grimly humorous instance of "poetic justice," in which each o...
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In the following essay, Suarez juxtaposes Dickey's novel with the film version of Deliverance.
James Dickey and director John Boorman battled over the making of Deliverance to the point that Di...
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{In the following essay, Langen describes sex as a primal source of power that pervades James Dickey's novel Deliverance.
The homosexual rape scene in James Dickey's Deliverance is stunn...
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Photographs by Erin Patrice O'BrienYou've probably heard the buzz about Mase's reentry album, Welcome Back. You've most likely grooved to the set-up single, "Welcome Back," and bopped to the club-s...
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An American ViewThey may be as quintessentially English as the stories of Morse and Frost, but ‘The Inspector Lynley Mysteries’ were actually created by a Californian!
Crime writer
Eli...
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Currently, up 10 spots on the Hot 100 (31-21), Ms. New Booty, by the Georgia native, Bubba Sparxxx, is gaining unbelievable steam with an estimated break into the Top 10 in two more weeks. But whil...
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The committee that assigns Brecht Awards -- given for particularly lame political gambits -- had to take a couple of days to debate this one, but now it's official: Freddy's attack on "pay-to-pray"...
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In the neighborhood of astronaut Lisa Nowak, parents are now able to play catch with their kids on balmy evenings. Instead of the hum of satellite trucks, they can hear birds chirping at sunset.Fam...
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Tehran (dpa) - The presidents of Iran and Venezuela on Monday
broke ground for construction of a joint methanol complex in south
Iran, state-television IRIB reported.
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India expressed support Tuesday to the United Nations' efforts
in encouraging the resumption of an all-inclusive dialogue process to
bring Myanmar on the path of democracy in a constructive w...
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As Rudy Giuliuni's campaign continues to deflate—he just finished speaking to less than 50 supporters at an airport in Sanford, Florida (where Jon Voight was introduced by Florida Attorney Ge...
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On the morning of September 11, 1857, a wagon train of 120 men, women and children en route from Arkansas to California were murdered near Cedar City, Utah. The killers, history suggests, were like...
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Critical Essay by Paul G. Italia
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