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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Simple, common-sense
measures such as opening hospital windows and using face masks
would greatly reduce the number of new cases of extensively
drug-resistant or XDR tubercu...
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Malaria vaccine plant takes a gamble ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reute...
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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 impo...
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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 impos...
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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 impo...
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Following is a summary of health news briefs compiled from
stories that have run separately and are available in full on
the file.
Many U.S. TB patients also HIV infected: report WASHINGTON (Reu...
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The war is visible in the graying hair and shrunken arms of hungry children whose parents have fled fighting as many as six times this year alone.It is etched in the faces of maimed women running f...
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