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...

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...

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...

The bullets from Seung-Hui Cho's gun slammed into Hilary Strollo's abdomen, head and buttocks. For four days, a cluster of tubes has run through her neck as she waits in a hospital for her body to heal.But the pain could not keep the smile off...

The bullets from Seung-Hui Cho's gun slammed into Hilary Strollo's abdomen, head and buttocks. For four days, a cluster of tubes has run through her neck as she waits in a hospital for her body to heal.But the pain could not keep the smile off...

Police opened fire on a crowd protesting alleged human rights abuses in the Indian-controlled section of Kashmir on Friday, killing one teenager and wounding a second person, doctors and witnesses said.The clashes broke out as crowds left Friday prayers at the Jamia mosque in Srinagar,...

The evil Dr. Diabetes leaps from a hospital window, crashing through the glass, determined to infect anyone in his path with the chronic, debilitating disease from which he takes his name. The imposing, green, wild-haired monster scowls, punches the air and taunts, "I will make...