Understanding James Dickey
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Author | : Henry Hart |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 1486 |
Release | : 2001-09-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146682865X |
A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks. Letters, anecdotes, tall tales and true ones, as well as the reluctant but finally candid cooperation of Dickey himself animate Hart's narration of a remarkable life. Readers of Dickey's National Book Award-winning poetry, his bestselling novel Deliverance, and anyone who witnessed his electrifying readings of his work will savor this book.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : Delta |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2008-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307483703 |
“You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance. Praise for Deliverance “Once read, never forgotten.”—Newport News Daily Press “A tour de force . . . How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”—The New Republic “Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”—Southern Review “A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”—The Nation “[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”—Time “A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”—Asheville Citizen-Times "A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."—New York Times Book Review "A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."—The New Yorker
Author | : Christopher Dickey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439129592 |
Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781611170979 |
This collection includes a foreword by poet Richard Howard, president of the PEN American Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1969 collection, Untitled Subjects.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : Delta |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
ISBN | : 9780385313094 |
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Deliverance and Buckdancer's Choice comes the heart-stopping story of an American tail-gunner who parachutes from his burning plane into Tokyo during the final months of World War II. "A first-rate adventure story".--Newsweek.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1965-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780819510280 |
Direct and dramatic poems point out the contrasts and agonied of this amoral age.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1967-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0819569828 |
Classic poems from a famous American poet This volume represents, under one cover, the major work of the man whom critics and readers have designated the authentic poet of his American generation. For this collection, James Dickey has selected from his four published books all those poems that reflect his truest interests and his growth as an artist. He has added more than a score of new poems—in effect, a new book in themselves—that have not previously been published in volume form. Specifically, Poems 1957-1967 contains 15 of the 24 poems that were included in his first book, Into the Stone (1960); 25 of the 36 that made up Drowning With Others (1962); 22 of the 24 in Helmets (1964); the entire 22 in the National Book Award winner Buckdancer's Choice (1965); and, under the titles Sermon and Falling, the exciting new poems mentioned above. Seldom can the word "great" be used of the work of a contemporary in any art. But surely it applies to the poems of James Dickey.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1270 |
Release | : 1987-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9785551618324 |
The eagerly awaited new work from James Dickey, his first novel since the brilliant Deliverance. Alnilam is a startling rite of passage through the worlds of darkness and sight, a stunning portrait of one blind man's quest to learn the truth of his son's disappearance during World War II, a story told partly in parallel columns describing both the blind man's perceptions and the point of view of seeing characters. Esquire excerpt.
Author | : Ronald Baughman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Understanding James Dickey -- Into the stone and Drowning with others -- Helmets -- Buckdancer's choice -- Falling and The Eye-beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy -- Deliverance -- The Zodiac, The Strength of fields, and Puella -- Dickey as critic.
Author | : James Dickey |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0819571555 |
James Dickey: The Selected Poems is the first book to collect James Dickey's very best poems. Like many visionary poets of the ecstatic imagination, Dickey experimented in a wide variety of literary styles. This volume brings together the finest work from each of the periods in Dickey's extremely controversial career. For over three decades, until his death in 1997, Dickey was one of the nation's most important poets; these are the poems that brought him a popular readership and critical acclaim.