This collection of James Dickey's poems and prose includes choice selections of the author's poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as some early unpublished poetry and excerpts from his unfinished novel Crux. Organized chronologically by genre, this is the definitive collection of works by one of the twentieth century's most important talents.
This collection of James Dickey's poems and prose includes choice selections of the author's poetry, fiction, and essays, as well as some early unpublished poetry and excerpts from his unfinished novel Crux. Organized chronologically by genre, this is the definitive collection of works by one of the twentieth century's most important talents.
James Dickey published fifteen books of poetry, four collections of essays, four coffee-table books, three novels, and one screenplay. His book of poetry Buckdancer's Choice received the National Book Award, the Poetry Society of America's Melville Cane Award, and an award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His bestselling first novel, Deliverance, was made into a movie. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and was Poet-in-Residence and First Carolina Professor of English at the University of South Carolina from 1969 until his death in 1997.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents
Introduction
Poetry
Introduction
From Into the Stone
The Vegetable King
The Performance
The Other
Walking on Water
Into the Stone
From Drowning with Others
The Lifeguard
The Heaven of Animals
A Birth
Fog Envelops the Animals
Between Two Prisoners
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
The Hospital Window
From Helmets
At Darien Bridge
Chenille
Springer Mountain
Cherrylog Road
The Scarred Girl
From Buckdancer's Choice
The Firebombing
Buckdancer's Choice
Pursuit from Under
Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony
The Fiend
From Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems
Falling
The Sheep Child
Power and Light
Adultery
Encounter in the Cage Country
May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church
From The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy
The Eye-Beaters
From The Zodiac
The Zodiac (Section I, excerpt; Section XII)
From The Strength of Fields
The Strength of Fields
The Voyage of the Needle
From Puella
Deborah Burning a Doll Made of House-wood
Deborah and Deirdre as Drunk Bridesmaids Foot-racing at Daybreak
From The Eagle's Mile
Daughter
The Olympian
For a Time and Place
Early Poems
The Shark at the Window
Joel Cahill Dead
The Wish to Be Buried Where One Has Made Love
The Wheelchair Drunk
Reading Genesis to a Blind Child
Fiction
From Deliverance
"September 15th" (excerpt)
From Alnilam
Frank Cahill's Journey to Peckover Army Air Corps Base (excerpt)
Peckover Graduation Ceremony (excerpt)
From To the White Sea
The Firebombing of Tokyo (excerpt)
Muldrow's First Murder (excerpt)
From Crux (unpublished novel)
Journey to War
Criticism
From Babel to Byzantium: Poets & Poetry Now
Barnstorming for Poetry
Notes on the Decline of Outrage
Robert Frost
Marianne Moore
From Sorties
The Self as Agent
Metaphor as Pure Adventure
Spinning the Crystal Ball
The Greatest American Poet: Roethke
From Night Hurdling
The Water-Bug's Mittens: Ezra Pound: What We Can Use
The G.I. Can of Beets, the Fox in the Wave, and the Hammers over Open Ground
May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church
From The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy
The Eye-Beaters
From The Zodiac
The Zodiac (Section I, excerpt; Section XII)
From The Strength of Fields
The Strength of Fields
The Voyage of the Needle
From Puella
Deborah Burning a Doll Made of House-wood
Deborah and Deirdre as Drunk Bridesmaids Foot-racing at Daybreak
From The Eagle's Mile
Daughter
The Olympian
For a Time and Place
Early Poems
The Shark at the Window
Joel Cahill Dead
The Wish to Be Buried Where One Has Made Love
The Wheelchair Drunk
Reading Genesis to a Blind Child
Fiction
From Deliverance
"September 15th" (excerpt)
From Alnilam
Frank Cahill's Journey to Peckover Army Air Corps Base (excerpt)
Peckover Graduation Ceremony (excerpt)
From To the White Sea
The Firebombing of Tokyo (excerpt)
Muldrow's First Murder (excerpt)
From Crux (unpublished novel)
Journey to War
Criticism
From Babel to Byzantium: Poets & Poetry Now
Barnstorming for Poetry
Notes on the Decline of Outrage
Robert Frost
Marianne Moore
From Sorties
The Self as Agent
Metaphor as Pure Adventure
Spinning the Crystal Ball
The Greatest American Poet: Roethke
From Night Hurdling
The Water-Bug's Mittens: Ezra Pound: What We Can Use
The G.I. Can of Beets, the Fox in the Wave, and the Hammers over Open Ground
Bare Bones: Afterword to a Film
Chronology
Rezensionen
Pat Conroy Who wrote better than James Dickey in this century? I think he was in a league of his own. His poems are simply better than anyone else's poetry. His criticism cuts to the bone. His novels sizzle when they hit the fire. This book captures the untellable genius of James Dickey. Pick it up and on any page you get perfection and the most breathlessly fully alive writing ever done by an American.
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