• The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems (1968). The Eye-Beaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buckhead and Mercy (1970).
  • James Dickey (1923-1997), with his unique vision, often violent imagery, and eccentric style, created for himself a place as an important American poet in the last...
  • Dickey: His Letters and Life 1970-1997, 2005The Complete Poems of James Dickey, 2013Death, and the Day's Light, 2015.
  • Author James Dickey holding cheek-to-cheek with a ceramic mask of his face designed by Billy Dunlap, at home.
  • He was born James Lafayette Dickey on the 2nd February 1923 in Atlanta,in the state of Georgia, the son of a lawyer.
  • James Dickey spent his last years in and out of hospitals, afflicted first with jaundice and later fibrosis of the lungs. He also suffered from alcoholism.
  • James Dickey ranks, along with Conrad Aiken, as one of the two most important Georgia poets in the twentieth century.
  • James Lafayette Dickey, a giant among mid-to-late twentieth-century Southern poets, provided a yes — a definitive sense of place and person.
  • Image from my copy of his Collected Poems, altered by me. These days, James Dickey is remembered as the writer of the novel Deliverance.
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