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- James Dickey: The Selected Poems
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- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xi-xvi
- from Into the Stone and Other Poems (1960)
- Sleeping Out at Easter
- pp. 17-18
- The Vegetable King
- pp. 19-21
- The Performance
- pp. 22-23
- from Drowning with Others (1962)
- The Lifeguard
- pp. 27-28
- Listening to Foxhounds
- pp. 29-30
- The Heaven of Animals
- pp. 31-32
- In the Tree House at Night
- pp. 33-34
- from Helmets (1964)
- The Dusk of Horses
- pp. 41-42
- Cherrylog Road
- pp. 43-46
- A Folk Singer of the Thirties
- pp. 47-51
- Approaching Prayer
- pp. 55-60
- Drinking from a Helmet
- pp. 61-66
- from Buckdancer's Choice (1965)
- The Firebombing
- pp. 69-77
- Buckdancer's Choice
- pp. 78-79
- The Celebration
- pp. 80-81
- The Shark's Parlor
- pp. 82-84
- Slave Quarters
- pp. 91-96
- from Falling (published in Poems, 1957-1967) (1967)
- Reincarnation (II)
- pp. 99-108
- The Sheep Child
- pp. 109-110
- For the Last Wolverine
- pp. 111-113
- Mary Sheffield
- pp. 116-117
- from The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victor, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970)
- The Eye-Beaters
- pp. 138-143
- from The Strength of Fields (1979)
- The Strength of Fields
- pp. 148-149
- The Rain Guitar
- pp. 150-151
- Remnant Water
- pp. 152-153
- False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age
- pp. 154-155
- from Puella (1982)
- Tapestry and Sail
- pp. 161-162
- from The Eagle's Mile (1990)
- Night Bird
- p. 168
- The Eagle's Mile
- pp. 172-174
- Meadow Bridge
- p. 175
- Tomb Stone
- p. 176
- Moon Flock
- pp. 177-178
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- pp. 183-185
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819571557
Related ISBN(s)
9780819522597
MARC Record
OCLC
732957540
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No