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James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist.

Dickey was best known for his novel Deliverance (1970) which was adapted into an acclaimed film of the same name.


Contents

Works

Novels

  • Deliverance (1970)
  • Alnilam (1987)
  • To the White Sea (1993)

Poetry

  • Into the Stone and Other Poems (in Poets of Today VII) (1960)
  • Drowning with Others (1962)
  • Two Poems of the Air (1964)
  • Helmets (1964)
  • Buckdancer's Choice: Poems (1965) —winner of the National Book Award<ref name=nba1966/>
  • Poems 1957-67 (1967)
  • The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems (1968)
  • The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970)
  • Exchanges (1971)
  • The Zodiac (1976)
  • The Owl King (1977)
  • Veteran Birth: The Gadfly Poems 1947-49 (1978)
  • Tucky the Hunter (1978)
  • Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish (1979)
  • The Strength of Fields (1979)
  • Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems (1981)
  • The Early Motion (1981)
  • Puella (1982)
  • Värmland (1982)
  • False Youth: Four Seasons (1983)
  • For a Time and Place (1983)
  • Intervisions (1983)
  • The Central Motion: Poems 1968-79 (1983)
  • Bronwen, The Traw, and the Shape-Shifter: A Poem in Four Parts (1986)
  • Summons (1988)
  • The Eagle's Mile (1990)
  • The Whole Motion: Collected Poems 1949-92 (1992)
  • The Selected Poems (1998)
  • The Complete Poems of James Dickey (2013)
  • Death, and the Day's Light (2015)

Illustrated prose

  • In Pursuit of the Grey Soul (1978)

Non-fiction

  • Jericho: The South Beheld (1974) (with Hubert Shuptrine)

Filmography




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