James Dickey, Author Wesleyan University Press $14.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8195-1187-4
Although departing from the narrative-based style of his past work, Dickey (one title/pk Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems ) is still deeply committed to the presentation of reality in incongruous terms. His use of language itself is...
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James Dickey, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (682p) ISBN 978-0-385-06549-8
Dickey's second novel, 17 years after the great success of Deliverance, is by no means such a clear winner. It is a massive, ambitious, flawed book with many passages of breathtaking grandeur in both the conception and the writing, but with a...
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James Dickey, Author, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Editor, Judith S. Baughman, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $35 (608p) ISBN 978-0-375-40419-1
Dickey's indefatigable editor and friend, and senior compiler of his letters, Bruccoli ""disapproved of his conduct and celebrated his genius."" Whatever that conduct was, it rarely emerges from these letters. Dickey (1923-1997) ""deliberately...
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James Dickey, Author, Henry Hart, Editor Touchstone Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-86435-8
Brassy, raw and, at times, enduringly powerful, the poetry of James Dickey (1923-1997) made big waves in the 1960s and '70s; he's now best known for his first novel, Deliverance (1970), a tale of male trauma and violence in the Georgia wilderness...
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