In James Dickey's harrowing 1970 novel, DELIVERANCE, four men set out on a canoe trip in the north Georgia wilderness. Only three make it back--and those three are changed forever. The story begins as a lighthearted adventure about city boys eager to test themselves against the elements, but it soon spirals down into a tense, nail-biting saga of ...
"There is no battle in Tolstoy's "War and Peace, "no conflict in Stendhal's account of Waterloo, to equal the drama and terror of Boyd's account of Private Hicks' advance through the wheat," James Dickey writes in his Afterword to this new edition of a truly remarkable World War I novel. Earlier, in 1923 on the novel's first publication, F. Scott ...
The first book to collect James Dickey's very best poems, 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 ...
In the early days of World War II, a blind man sets off in search of the son he never knew, a charismatic Air Force pilot supposedly killed in a training accident. His odyssey leads to the secret heart of a "higher military"--sustained by heroism and a fanatical devotion to flight. By the author of Deliverance.
For this collection, James Dickey selected from his first four published books all those poems that reflected his truest interests and his growth as an artist, plus more than a score of then-new poems. It contains poems from "Into the Stone" (1960), "Drowning With Others" (1962), "Helmets" (1964), and the National Book Award winning "Buckdancer's ...
The sensational story of the entrepreneurs and corporate raiders who built America's thriving wireless industry. "Highly recommended."--Library JournalThe wireless industry was built by a motley band of characters who, from the beginning, have fought unrelentingly against one another for a cut of the business. It's a surprising history full of ...
The poet and novelist Dickey was perhaps as famous for his public appearances as he was for his novel DELIVERANCE and his award-winning poems. These letters, spanning the years between 1943 and 1997, often show the man behind the public persona as he revealed himself to correspondents as diverse as Harold Bloom, James Merrill, Anne Sexton, John ...
James Dickey is the high flier of contemporary American poets. In this book he is flying higher than ever, so high the earth is reduced to its elements, its essential radiance.
Talvikki Ansel's My Shining Archipelago is the winner of the 1996 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Her book gives us a front-row seat in a true Amazon theater where, says James Dickey in his foreword, ""Ansel finds her way of bringing into language the hellish magnificence, the perverse pluralism-more, always more, in the Amazon basin."" ...
James Dickey's creativity as a poet is well known. But there have been few opportunities for his readers to become familiar with the full dimensions of his mind, with the thoughts and perceptions that lie just outside the matter of his poetry. "Sorties" brings together the contents of a journal kept by Dickey for several years and six discerning ...
In James Dickey's harrowing 1970 novel, DELIVERANCE, four men set out on a canoe trip in the north Georgia wilderness. Only three make it back--and those three are changed forever. The story begins as a lighthearted adventure about city boys eager to test themselves against the elements, but it soon spirals down into a tense, nail-biting saga of ...
Published to coincide with his son Christopher Dickey's memoir, "Summer of Deliverance, " this collection of poems and prose distill's James Dickey's tremendous talent and influence, and sheds light on his remarkable career.
In this four part poem a young girl is determined to help a kingdom of flying squirrels, but first she must overcome her own fear of the dark. Illustrated with b&w drawings.
James Dickey, acclaimed poet-novelist and author of award-winning Jericho: The South Beheld reveals a "paradise preserved" through the soothing, yet hauntingly tragic monologue of an old mountain man. Over 117 glorious, full-color photographs.
Two days before the fire bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II, an American airforce rear gunner is shot down, and parachutes into a city being firebombed by his own side. On the ground, his journey becomes more than an escape - escalating into a violent odyssey of self-discovery.
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