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...
NAMIC's founders needed a way to network, learn and find relief from the profound sense of isolation they felt on the job Gayle Greer was settling into her first day on the job in the Denver office of American Television & Communications, when...
* TO THE WHITE SEA James Dickey. Houghton Mifflin/ Jaffe, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 0-395-84494-4 To answer the obvious question first, Dickey's third novel is not a new potential blockbuster like Deliverance-- but neither is it an esoterically high-minded, tough read like Alnilam....
