SOURCE: Kirschten, Robert. “The Momentum of Word-Magic in James Dickey's The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy.” Contemporary Literature 36, no. 1 (spring 1995): 130-63.
In the following essay, Kirschten expresses the magical, mythopoeic mode of Dickey's verse.
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