SOURCE: Christensen, Paul. “Toward the Abyss: James Dickey at Middle Age.” Parnassus 13 (spring-summer 1986): 202-19.
In the following essay, Christensen contends that the problem with The Central Motion: Poems, 1968-1979 is that Dickey “has tried to deal with middle age, his own, and fails to perceive in it value or meaning.”
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