The Mississippi Quarterly, June 22nd, 2000
IN 1994 JAMES DICKEY SELECTED TONY CRUNK'S Living in the Resurrection (1995) as the winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.(1) But in the foreword Dickey struggles to elucidate the volume's themes. He first contends that "[t]he poet's central concern is the search--quest--for Home, one that takes him from childhood in a small town in western Kentucky to a sparsely populated--almost wilderness---environment in Montana."(2) Dickey's comment suggests that this journey from western Kentucky to Montana is central to the volume, an enactment, perhaps, of Thomas Wolfe's no...
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